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That is a very strange article. The headline is “How Boris Johnson Sabotaged Ukraine Russia Peace Deal In April” and the bulk of it is about how a former US National Security Council officer didn’t say that.

Frankly the NYT one seems a lot more convincing to me. That addition to the security guarantee clause is obviously completely unworkable.

Maybe find an article that says that then. The one you linked says that yes, they were close to an agreement, but at the last minute Russia inserted a clause that was a dealbreaker

What that link actually says:

To the Ukrainians’ dismay, there was a crucial departure from what Ukrainian negotiators said was discussed in Istanbul. Russia inserted a clause saying that all guarantor states, including Russia, had to approve the response if Ukraine were attacked. In effect, Moscow could invade Ukraine again and then veto any military intervention on Ukraine’s behalf — a seemingly absurd condition that Kyiv quickly identified as a dealbreaker. Russia tried to secure a veto on Ukraine’s security guarantees by inserting a clause requiring unanimous consent.

With that change, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team said, “we had no interest in continuing the talks.”

Under this interpretation, the headline could then read “New Polling Shows Significant Ukrainian Support for War to End the War”

You said Russia was being diplomatic. Nobody is arguing that powerful countries are often cruel. So again, if this is Russia’s diplomacy towards Ukraine, do you agree that America was diplomatic towards Afghanistan?

Oh right, so do you consider America’s behaviour towards Afghanistan diplomatic then?

It’s not meaningful diplomacy to say “give us everything we want or we will take everything we want”

That’s a hard shift from “Russia is being diplomatic” to “Russia can just take what it wants”

The “deal” requires Ukraine to cede a colossal amount of territory before negotiations even begin. Even if the Ukrainian leadership was willing to give up all of that for peace, doing so here would not actually even buy them peace, only a start to negotiations that could collapse at any time. That’s about as diplomatic an offer as Ukraine saying “pre-2014 borders and then we can talk.”

If I’m understanding it correctly, it’s a case of:

• NASA finds graphene on the moon
• The moon is generally thought to have very little carbon, so the theory is that the graphene was introduced by meteorite impact
• CNSA goes to check out a patch of the moon that is, relatively speaking, quite new. As such it should have received fewer meteorite impacts
• CNSA still finds graphene, so that’s a mark gainst the meteorite theory
• Due to the structure of the stuff that contains the graphene, it may be the result of volcanic processes. If this is the case, it’s possible that the moon is not as carbon-depleted as we thought.
• If that’s true, it suggests that our theory on the formation of the moon could be wrong too, since we may have made incorrect assumptions about the composition of it

So NASA found something interesting a while back and made a best guess based on the data available, and now CNSA found some more data that might change the prior conclusions. On the other hand it is still possible that NASA’s theory is correct, it’s not like anyone found a billions-of-years-old recipe for the moon. This new stuff just tips the scales against it a little.

I’m afraid I am completely unqualified to answer this beyond that Irene’s reign was a very messy one, ending with a rebellion against her. Her own son (the legal heir to the throne for who she was originally just regent) also rebelled against her earlier, and she had his eyes put out. It seems to me like Irene specifically was just absolutely ruthless enough to get past whatever societal rules may have been levelled against her

That said, there absolutely were empresses-regnant of the Byzantine empire, and there’s no reason to consider that a separate entity. Irene Sarantapechaena and about four or five others absolutely were ruling Roman empresses

Empress-consort rather than empress-regnant, I’m afraid. She was Julia Domna, wife of emperor Septimus Severus and accompanying him on his attempt to bring the north of Britain under his control

To be fair that makes a lot more sense than it happening the other way around

The oldest recorded words from any woman living in (what is today) Scotland are someone telling the empress of Rome, to her face, that they fuck better than her

It’s also known as the kINGdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

honestly I don’t like anything or i give up on everything. I don’t wanna try new things anymore.

That sounds an awful lot like depression. That’s nothing to do with being in a relationship or not; it’s not healthy to not be able to enjoy anything or take interest in anything. Forget about the relationship stuff. You can be and deserve to be happy without one. You need to address the other stuff first.

I genuinely expected this to be Tunic-related. There’s a whole area of frog assassins and the isometric viewpoint looks just like this too

Well you’re a robot, it makes sense that you’d have no taste

Well yes, that’s reasonable. My point is just that AirBnB is definitely not essential to the tourist appeal of Barcelona