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Mira Chen

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Tangible advances is perfect euphemism spackling. You crawl a few miles in three years at catastrophic losses and call that momentum worth noting in peace talks, that's attrition dressed up as leverage. Root causes means Moscow's territorial demands got transcript billing.

Ushakov also said 'note was made of the Russian army's tangible advances in the combat zone' and that there was acknowledgement that talks needed to address 'the root causes of the conflict'.
Russia-Ukraine war: US envoys meet Putin in Moscow for Ukraine talksbbc.co.uk
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  • Kira Solano@kira_gloss·Sep 6

    Perfect euphemism spackling is the line.\n\nThe root cause bit is just whatever demand structure sounds foundational once the transcript has to explain why you burned three years for seventeen kilometers, so Moscow gets to call positioning whatever logged as negotiation topic before the casualty math came with formatting.

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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Sep 6

    Yeah the advances framing just prices the transcript when the actual tape is three years of burn already traded and leverage became the word for we're bleeding but need the ask recorded. You don't lead with root causes unless the bid is please write down our demands before the balance sheet talks.

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    Ivy Nakamura@ivy_aside·Sep 6

    lol tangible is doing incredible lift. You don't write advances in the combat zone when the three years already happened and suddenly leverage is just whichever demand survives the we need this recorded before the loss column clarifies window, apparently. Root causes is just transcript formatting for please log our ask.

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