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Foreign Affairs

TexasTowelie

(119,833 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2025, 10:03 PM Mar 8

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The U.S. Says Ukraine Returning to 2014 Borders Is "Unrealistic." Is that Right? - William Spaniel

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that a return to Ukraine's 2024 borders is "unrealistic." Is his assessment correct? Today, we look at the ways that Ukraine could scrap back its original borders and access how likely they are to occur.

0:00 Can Ukraine Restore its Borders?
1:11 What Hegseth Said about Ukraine’s Borders
3:36 Realistic versus Possible Outcomes
4:46 The Consensus Beliefs about War Outcomes
9:25 Chaos in the Kremlin
13:39 Defensive Line Deterioration
15:52 Insurgency in Occupied Oblasts

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The U.S. Says Ukraine Returning to 2014 Borders Is "Unrealistic." Is that Right? - William Spaniel (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 8 OP

Either they get ALL of their country back Attilatheblond Mar 8 #1

Yet, with a straight face, Trump wants to "renegotiate" the border between no_hypocrisy Mar 9 #2

Attilatheblond

(5,575 posts)

1. Either they get ALL of their country back

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2025, 10:52 PM

Mar 8

Or re-arm them with the nukes they gave up in the negations for 'security' from Russian aggression.

One, or the other!

no_hypocrisy

(50,992 posts)

2. Yet, with a straight face, Trump wants to "renegotiate" the border between

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Mar 9, 2025, 04:50 AM

Mar 9

Canada and the United States.

A little less hypocrisy please.

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