This is a most important reason the war escalated when terms could have been negotiated for peace. Biden calling Putin a war criminal on the global stage was intentional. This statement was discussed by Biden's handler‘s prior to his war posturing, it was not a slip up from old Joe. Public posturing amongst NATO members made things a lot worse than they already were, particularly from the US and from the UK’s prime minister at the time, Boris Johnson who directly participated. Johnson met with Zelensky and told him not to negotiate with Putin. Johnson, along with Biden, influenced Zelenskyy to not pursue a peace deal.
The continuation of warfare falls in part on NATO members for their intentional words of war. Peace could have been negotiated and still can. Those health masks that were distributed globally needed to be given to warmongers to muzzle them permanently.
"The British government has become an obstacle to peace in Ukraine," said the Stop the War Coalition. "The conflict there is developing into a proxy war between Russia and NATO and it is the Ukrainian people who will suffer the consequences."
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