President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, Sept. 29, 2021. (Reuters Photo)
BBC: Ukraine conflict: Putin lays out his demands in Turkish phone call
Turkey has positioned itself with great care to be the go-between with Russia and Ukraine - and this seems to be paying off.
On Thursday afternoon, President Vladimir Putin rang the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and told him what Russia's precise demands were for a peace deal with Ukraine.
Within half an hour of the ending of the phone call, I interviewed Mr Erdogan's leading adviser and spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin. Mr Kalin was part of the small group of officials who had listened in on the call.
The Russian demands fall into two categories.
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Update #1: Putin lays out his demands for cease-fire in call with Turkey's president: report (FOX News)
Update #2: Putin, Erdogan discuss Ukraine, security guarantees over phone (Global Times)
WNU Editor: We are far from having this happen .... In call with Putin, Erdogan offers to host him and Zelenskiy for talks (Reuters).
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What is Putin?
Is Putin "The Mule"?
Was Hitler "The Mule"?
If Hitler had been still born physically or politically, would Rommel have been "The Mule"?
To look at another thread why did Rome and Carthage have to fight?
Could not the Senates of Rome and Carthage merged through intermarriage and created a bigger empire than the Roman one?
Or was that impossible, because people are people?
From certain reference frames America looks no different than Russia. The former has a velvet glove and the latter an iron fist but the result is the same over time.
Maybe Putin had appoint. Maybe Russian membership in the EU and and NATO would have been better?
(1) Russian border would be secure.
(2) Borders would not matter so much and a sort of federalism with language rights would be assured.
Security? There are a lot of secrets, technical or otherwise that NATO do not share with each other. There are protocols or processes on which secrets to share and which ones to protect from 'allies'. It would be a damn sight harder to protect secrets from Russia. It might be impossible.
Are tech secrets worth obsessing over? Secrets have a shelf life due to theft or independent discovery. Fukuyama might have been wrong about the End of History, but maybe we are at the end of tech secrets. Who doesn't have a drone or stealth? Really the only secrets I can see protecting that are AI and such.
Maybe the Moscow/DC thing is about tíme like it was for Rome and Carthage or Athens and Sparta?
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