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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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Ukrainian and western officials stressed that both the timetable and the US ultimatum were unlikely to hold, as they hinged on several factors, including that progress could be made towards a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Agreeing to plan for something you know won’t happen is just good politics, if being seen doing the planning is necessary in order to secure continued support.
The Western news media still doesn’t really understand Ukraine, or this conflict, and is largely still stuck in a cold-war mindset in which Ukraine must inevitably, eventually, take whatever terms are on offer because Russia is the unbeatable second army of the world. It consequently falls victim to its own confirmation bias whenever it gets hold of stories like this.
You see the same phenomenon on the BBC whenever they send a reporter to spend a week on one section of the vast front in this conflict. Inevitably they start filing copy about depressed, demoralised soldiers and ZOMG! RuSSiaNs aRe AdVaNcInG!!11!! pieces-to-camera delivered with that sad head tilt and sympathetic frown I’m sure they all learn how to do before being handed their flak jacket.