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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into a fourth month, with only modest gains to show so far, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he rejected suggestions it was time to negotiate peace with the Kremlin.

“When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

M.A.D.

Seems like a really dishonest question when you're pretending not to understand such a basic concept. Unless you want me to believe that you're an idiot or something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The MAD play would be to stay within their borders and make sure their nukes and delivery systems are all in good working order. Escalating at great cost and with a risk to internal stability isn't very good from a MAD perspective.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed but here we are. They're now arming their fascist puppet state with ATACMS and installing nukes in Finland, which is just eliminating MAD by reducing the time that Russia can respond.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see what you did there. I don't believe NATO has puppet states.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, it's the USA that has the puppet states.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Them either, unless you count, like, Puerto Rico. But I think you knew what I meant.