It seems that what you should signal you want to happen is very different from what you actually want to happen, so I’d be unsure about pushing too far against pro-retaking rhetoric (and thus devaluing Ukraine’s bargaining chip) in more public media spaces.
I’d be unsure about pushing too far against pro-retaking rhetoric (and thus devaluing Ukraine’s bargaining chip) in more public media spaces.
No need to worry, Ukraine and NATO governments will largely desire an invasion of Crimea even if the entire EA community agrees with me and lobbies as hard as possible. There is more of the opposite problem—that Ukrainians are too fixed on total victory to allow for a peace deal, making all of their bargaining chips pointless.
Thanks for this post.
It seems that what you should signal you want to happen is very different from what you actually want to happen, so I’d be unsure about pushing too far against pro-retaking rhetoric (and thus devaluing Ukraine’s bargaining chip) in more public media spaces.
No need to worry, Ukraine and NATO governments will largely desire an invasion of Crimea even if the entire EA community agrees with me and lobbies as hard as possible. There is more of the opposite problem—that Ukrainians are too fixed on total victory to allow for a peace deal, making all of their bargaining chips pointless.