Anti war doesn’t mean just letting the bad guy do whatever they want.
I don’t think that’s what they’re asking:
Yes, Bernie should condemn the Russian invasion, but he should also be calling for a negotiated end to this brutal war
You can push for talks without wanting to immediately give away every possible concession. Personally I’m not seeing this as a plea to
“just [let] the bad guy do whatever they want.”
The issue with any negotiated settlement is that how do you trust Russia to hold up its end of the bargain after 2014? They’ve shown that international agreements mean sweet F.A. to them if it gets in the way of their goals.
The only way we get out of this in the long term to push Russia out of Ukraine, and force an unconditional Russian surrender. That means taking back the Donbas region; that means taking back Crimea.
I don’t think that’s what they’re asking:
You can push for talks without wanting to immediately give away every possible concession. Personally I’m not seeing this as a plea to “just [let] the bad guy do whatever they want.”
The issue with any negotiated settlement is that how do you trust Russia to hold up its end of the bargain after 2014? They’ve shown that international agreements mean sweet F.A. to them if it gets in the way of their goals.
The only way we get out of this in the long term to push Russia out of Ukraine, and force an unconditional Russian surrender. That means taking back the Donbas region; that means taking back Crimea.
Bernie is smart enough to know that you can’t reliably negotiate with someone as untrustworthy as Putin.
Putin has lied to the world more than enough times that nobody should trust any potential negotiation he is involved in.