Originally Posted by Chris

I’m highly sceptical that Putin would negotiate away Crimea. I’m less sceptical that he’s at least open to negotiations because his army (not really an army, more a murderous rabble) is getting its ars3 handed to it on the battlefield at the moment.

However, I am pretty confident that within the next 12 months Ukraine will retake Crimea by force. And no, that won’t result in a nuclear exchange, and Western commentators should really stop doing Putin’s nuclear terror psy-ops for him by opining otherwise.