Lavrov and Medvedev have said Ukraine can have peace if it recognizes Russian annexation of its territory and agrees to “de-Nazification”, Russian code for regime change of a government elected with 73% of the vote. Please explain where the space for negotiation is there.
Putin’s mouthpieces--Sergeytsev, Medvedev, Solovyev--and puppets in the pre annexation DPR and LPR--regularly spew exterminationist rhetoric promising the end of Ukraine and Ukrainian identity and language.
The hundreds of intercepted calls of Russian soldiers on unsecured lines show an undisciplined rabble motivated more by torture and plunder than patriotism.
Ukrainian chief of General Staff Zaluzhny said that now that we’ve eliminated Russia 's profesional army, we’ll take care of its amateur (mobiki) army.
On July 1 you wrote Russia was winning. How did that forecast work out? So your Russian useful idiot appeasement has transitioned from don’t support Ukraine because its defeat is inevitable to the dangers of a Ukrainian victory.
The only thing preventing peace is supplying Ukraine too slowly with the means to permanently neuter the Russian military. But, oh, I forgot, you already wrote you prefer a Ukrainian surrender to a Ukrainian victory.
The author you cite thinks the Maidan Revolution of Dignity was a CIA coup, a laughably idiotic fantasy disproved by watching the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire or listening to one Tim Snyder interview or watching his Yale course The Making of Modern Ukraine on YouTube. Free, no tuition.
Russia’s UK ambassador just said a nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought. Putin tried to cancel the grain export deal. Erdoğan and the Turkish navy called his bluff and he backed down. Article 5 has its uses, even for African, Asian and Middle Eastern importers of Ukrainian grain.
Putin’s hubris and calls with his senescent drinking buddy Berlusconi still give him confidence he can freeze Europe and split the West. This is possible only if western leaders follow the advice of Russia’s western useful idiots like Berlusconi, Salvini, Orban, LePen, tiki torched Tucker, JD Vance, Trump, you and Caitlyn Johnstone, direct descendants of the Lindbergh and Father Coughlin America First ers and the “don’t fight the imperialist war” CPUSA.
It’s the height of neocolonial hubris to assume, in ahistorical ignorance Russia’s five centuries of genocidal conquest of its land-based colonial empire, that your therapy-based skill set is a kind of universal joint applicable to all geopolitical conflicts. This war is a conflict of irreconcilable opposites: Ukraine’s idea of civic nationalist contractual government inherited from the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and Russian supremacist ethno-nationalist the Tsar owns everything model of state building. As in the American Civil War, only one state’s model can survive.
