[atmavatar]

Ceding territory to end the war will surely fix the problem. That worked out well with Crimea, after all.

[gspetr]

Worked out pretty well for Finland, has it not?

[artem2471]

Finland inflicted a serious military victory over ussr, actually had a possibility of Allies joining in Winter War, and fought with ussr in 1941-1945. After all that it got its neutral position, not only by ceding some land, but actively resisting. Meanwhile Baltic states lost their sovereignty for 50 years.

[Gud]

No, it hasn’t.

They lost a large chunk of land and every male still needs to spend one year of their life defending their country.

[somenameforme]

They didn't cede anything there. They continued to claim that Crimea was theirs, with support from the US. Less than a year before Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukraine was openly speaking of all options to retake Crimea which would obviously entail war with Russia. [1] All the while they were actively seeking to join NATO, and Biden was certainly implying it would happen soon.

This certainly contributed to Russia's decision to invade, as they likely saw the future as being a war on their terms, or a war on NATO's terms. And the narrative about aggressor would have likely played out similarly even if Ukraine/Biden had moved to invade Crimea, precisely because nothing was ever conceded.

[1] - https://www.unian.info/politics/russian-aggression-ukraine-a...

[weregiraffe]

Russia delenda est.

[netsharc]

"I stole your car, you need to cease all your attempts of taking it back, that is aggression/violence against me!".

[artem2471]

So Biden was “implying” something, and that was the reason for the war.