he has control of the media, he can pretend it didn't happen, until he tries to do peace. control of kursk is an ukrainian veto on when the war ends. i'm baffled how not a single commentator on the conflict talks about this. like imagine trump gets in and goes full peacenik. without kursk he could threaten to cut aid to ukraine unless they agree to a deal where the lines are frozen. and putin would agree to that because it's free land. with kursk occupied putin can't agree to freeze the lines. because it look like shit to allow ukraine to squat on russian land indefinitely. trump can't ask ukraine to vacate kursk because he needs to keep up appearances. maybe i just don't know how these things work and the experts are right, but this is what i think.
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