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Asking Ukraine to Make Concessions Is Horribly Irresponsible

The latest trend in clickbait journalism has become an abomination.

Sean Kernan
5 min readJun 7, 2022

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“Will you give up territory, President Zylensky?”

“At what point, will you consider giving land to Russia?”

It’s the same annoying trend. And it’s totally off base.

To his credit, Ukraine’s president has been remarkably patient with his responses, where so many would have flipped a table and begun shouting.

The Russia Appeasement narrative escalated last week with a Washington Post article featuring former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, saying Ukraine should just get it over with and give up land.

It’s crazy-talk.

Meanwhile, a full 82% of Ukrainians believe there should be zero concessions of land — meaning zero in its most absolute sense. Not an inch. A large swathe of these people have already lost family or friends to Russian attacks.

Yet these same people, who have paid the most immediate price, who you would think want this war to end, are still in favor of continuing the fight.

Chasing a quick buck

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Sean Kernan

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