Thought I'd post this here after another poster here suggested that Russia's referendums were on the right track, if done at the wrong time. I disagree, I think it was done at the best time possible (obviously would have been best if everyone could have stopped fighting while they were being held, but that clearly wasn't an option). That doesn't mean, however, that they couldn't be done again, with more international observers present. I find it refreshing that there's at least one billionaire who isn't on side with the military industrial complex in regards to the war in Ukraine...
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BY: JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON
OCTOBER 05, 2022
6 MIN READ
Musk understands what many commentators don’t: The war will end in a negotiated settlement or it will escalate, possibly into nuclear war.
As if to burnish his reputation as a super-villain in the eyes of the corporate press, Elon Musk this week floated an idea on Twitter for a possible resolution of the Russo-Ukrainian war. For his trouble, he was swiftly accused of being a pro-Putin stooge by guardians of the Official Narrative. His suggested peace plan was dismissed out of hand as “Russia-friendly” and, as The Washington Post’s Olivier Knox put it, “designed to lock in Russian territorial gains.”
But Musk’s idea shouldn’t be so quickly dismissed, not least because it has the virtue of being grounded in reality, but also because broadly speaking the billionaire mogul is right: It’s time for the war in Ukraine to come to an end. One need not be “Russia-friendly” to recognize that this war will most likely end in one of two ways. Either there will be a negotiated political settlement, in which both Russia and Ukraine get some of what they vitally need, or the thing will escalate into a worldwide nuclear war.
Given the options, the responsible thing to do is think through how a settlement might be reached — something our political leaders and media elites, wedded as they are to a maximalist Ukraine policy that seeks the total defeat of Russian forces and regime change in Moscow, have thus far been incapable of doing.
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Full article:
Elon Musk Is Right, The Russia-Ukraine War Needs To End | The Federalist
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BY: JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON
OCTOBER 05, 2022
6 MIN READ
Musk understands what many commentators don’t: The war will end in a negotiated settlement or it will escalate, possibly into nuclear war.
As if to burnish his reputation as a super-villain in the eyes of the corporate press, Elon Musk this week floated an idea on Twitter for a possible resolution of the Russo-Ukrainian war. For his trouble, he was swiftly accused of being a pro-Putin stooge by guardians of the Official Narrative. His suggested peace plan was dismissed out of hand as “Russia-friendly” and, as The Washington Post’s Olivier Knox put it, “designed to lock in Russian territorial gains.”
But Musk’s idea shouldn’t be so quickly dismissed, not least because it has the virtue of being grounded in reality, but also because broadly speaking the billionaire mogul is right: It’s time for the war in Ukraine to come to an end. One need not be “Russia-friendly” to recognize that this war will most likely end in one of two ways. Either there will be a negotiated political settlement, in which both Russia and Ukraine get some of what they vitally need, or the thing will escalate into a worldwide nuclear war.
Given the options, the responsible thing to do is think through how a settlement might be reached — something our political leaders and media elites, wedded as they are to a maximalist Ukraine policy that seeks the total defeat of Russian forces and regime change in Moscow, have thus far been incapable of doing.
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Full article:
Elon Musk Is Right, The Russia-Ukraine War Needs To End | The Federalist