DE-ESCALATE THE ROW WITH RUSSIA AND ROW BACK from talking up war in Ukraine

DE-ESCALATE THE ROW WITH RUSSIA AND ROW BACK from talking up war in Ukraine

Re-assure Russia that no more former Soviet states will be invited to join NATO.

Re-assure them that there will be no more NATO exercises in the 14 NATO members that have joined since 1990.

Then keep to what you have said.

The belligerents in the Donbas region must compromise and come to a peaceful settlement to their war.

The West should stop selling/giving armaments to the belligerents.

Tell Ukraine that they must be more emollient in their dealings with Russia. No more talk of war but, instead, shared cultural occasions with their Russian neighbour across the border with whom they have so much in common.

Putin may want a Russian Federation of friendly states and regions.

He sees the EU and NATO coming ever closer.  I would have thought that NATO’s military exercises in former USSR satellite states must be a real provocation to this military hard man.  Why do we persist in doing it?  Because we love to provoke, we love all things military and might is right!  We love to stir things up, as we did with our provocative move in placing Jupiter rockets in Turkey near the border with the USSR and pointing straight at them.  We know where that led!