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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by Paradigma11 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:20AM (#43220104)
You can't really bring non binding, non serious agreements that were never put in writing or ratified and that all parties declared no longer relevant back from the dead and feign moral outrage. That's ridiculous.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by mathfailure on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:22PM (#43223799)
What does "legally binding" do good at all? There are no other laws other than the rule of the strength.

U.S. was strong for a long time. It did whatever it liked.

Now Russia restored some of its strength to the point it can show others that sometimes you have to listen to when a bear warns you (quite calmly and nicely first).

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by Paradigma11 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @01:58AM (#43228059)
For one, if it is ratified in a democratic nation that means that the people had a say in it through their elected representatives.

That way the other party knows that this agreement has some backing and staying power.

Not some dude spouting some ideas to counterparts during very very turbulent times.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by mathfailure on Sunday March 02, 2025 @05:45AM (#43229174)
Who decides if a nation is democratic or not?

Many people (even Americans) claim U.S. is not a democracy. Every country has corruption to some degree. The only backing and staying power there is - is the force a country has and its willingness to use it to defend something.

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