How about using some more hard-hitting words like “seize”, “conquer”, “attack”, “bomb”.

About half of modern-day Israeli Jews are descendants of immigrants from North Africa who were expelled (or the equivalent) from their home countries in around 1948. Cries of "Go back to Poland" make no sense. The Polish Jews were almost all killed by Hitler. (This does not justify killing Gazans.)

But to be fair, very few people are able to admit to error. We should train people/children better in admitting to error and apologizing, and praise people when they do so.

And do you think that Russia will have to concede defeat eventually? (Sooner than in a decade or two or three?) I hope you are right.

Do you think that If the Germans in WW 1 had participated in their surrender in the way that the Germans in WW 2 did, that Germany and the Germans would have been less bitter? Didn't the aftermath to WW 2 go differently because the Allies OCCUPIED Germany (for several decades!)

Thank you for all of this information.

"Everything could be off the table ... if the Ukranians do not sign by Thanksgiving"? It sounds as though the plan is for Ukraine to be "on the table" -- i.e. eaten just as surely the Thanksgiving meal. So Ukraine should welcome being "off the table".

No, not trying to go for a gotcha, just being lazy and asking you instead of taking the trouble to look, or (more charitably to me) instead of combing through it to see what category the talks ending WW 2 fit into. Thanks to your reply, now I know. So in WW 1, the Germans did not sign a surrender?

"leverage"? You mean like "force"?

I know of course what happened in the Treaty of Versailles that ended WW 1 . But you said "the last time someone was excluded ..." My question was meant to be -- were the aggressors who started the war (Nazis) excluded or included in the talks that ended WW 2?

Everyone talks about "peace" -- indeed everyone wants peace! But on what terms? Why are words like "surrender" and "conquest" never used in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war? Talk of "wanting peace" and "wanting war" is completely empty.

What happened at the end of World War 2? Wasn't that an unconditional surrender?

Somehow the words “surrender” and “conquest” have gone out of use.

Yes you can.

If only Zelenskyy were taller! The kind of man Trump likes! Because that’s really what it comes down to, doesn’t it?

It is a “surrender plan”.

But didn’t right wing US economists advise Russia in the 1990s in a way which permitted the rise of the oligarchs, i.e. the looting of Russian public assets by individual greedy Russians?

He and the GOP use the word “corrupt” a lot and seems as though to them, it is a synonym for “enemy” or “opponent”. They have no idea what it means.

No. Bloomington, Minnesota.