All about lines.

"Ukraine is prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but such a pact would have to be guaranteed by third parties and put to a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said," Straits Times. "He said Ukraine refused to discuss certain other Russian demands, such as the demilitarisation of the country," and said he wanted to reach a "compromise" over the eastern Donbass region. It's a mystery why he did not conclude a peace deal with Russia earlier since he was elected president in 2019, Britannica. After all, Putin has been warning about NATO's eastward expansion for decades, Conversation. Ukraine was his 'red line'. Why wait till so much destruction of his own country and after more than 3.7 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries, Pew Research. "Ukraine's military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, has warned that Russia is trying to apply what he called the 'Korean scenario' to Ukraine, having failed to take the capital and depose the legitimate government," BBC. "He said Russian President Vladimir Putin would try to impose a demarcation line separating eastern and southern regions from the rest of Ukraine, since he would not be able to absorb the whole country." Or, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which were parts of Georgia, but have been under Russia's protection since 2008, wikipedia. The BBC should be familiar with lines. After all, a Britisher called Sir Cyril Radcliffe drew the lines separating India from East and West Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of millions, Zee. And the Sykes-Picot line in the middle-east divided areas under French and British influence, wikipedia. The film 'Ukraine on Fire' "clinically documents the country's chequered history -- a powerful fascist movement, whose leaders like Stepan Bandera are still national heroes for many; Ukrainian Nazi regiments joining Hitler's army against the Soviets; the terrible massacres of Ukrainian Jews; the role of neo-Nazis in the 2014 uprising and the influence they still have, including the notorious Azov militia that works closely with the Ukrainian Army," wrote Sandipan Deb. Irony - Zelensky is a Jew. "The owner of a war-zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine has told a Ukrainian TV interviewer that he has instructed his doctors to 'castrate' captured Russian soldiers," Daily Mail. He said he is a great humanist , "But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all [captured Russian] men, because they are cockroaches, not people." We don't know if he trained under Josef Mengele, wikipedia, who was also known for his humanist actions. Ukraine has a political party called 'Opposition Platform for Life'. "With 43 seats in parliament, it is the largest opposition party," wrote Tucker Carlson. Zelensky has banned the party. "Opposition Platform for Life is now prohibited from 'all activity within Ukraine'." "He did this not just to Opposition Platform for Life, but to ten other political parties that he believed were insufficiently loyal to him. They're all illegal now." This is what the great British and American democracies are defending. Unscrupulous hypocrites.