Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Washington’s European allies that the US believes the war in Ukraine could last through the end of 2022, CNN reported Friday, citing two European officials.
The report said that many Western officials have assessed there’s no short-term end in sight for the war, and public comments from US officials have reflected this. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has warned of a “protracted conflict” that he said could go on “for months or even longer.”
Last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has said he believes the war will continue for years. “I do think this is a very protracted conflict, and I think it’s measured in years. I don’t know about decade, but at least years for sure,” he told the House Armed Services Committee.
A senior State Department official told CNN that Blinken has “has discussed with his counterparts our concern that the conflict could be protracted, but all of his engagements have revolved around how best to bring it to a halt as quickly as possible.”
But Blinken hasn’t explored diplomacy with Russia as a potential avenue to bring about an end to the war. Blinken hasn’t spoken with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, since February 15, and President Biden doesn’t appear to have plans to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Instead of diplomacy with Moscow, the US is significantly increasing its military aid to Ukraine. On Wednesday, Biden authorized a new $800 million weapons package for Ukraine, bringing the total military aid pledged since Russia invaded on February 24 to about $2.6 billion.
A second senior State Department official told CNN that the US has “done a lot and so we do have faith and we always had faith in our Ukrainian partners. But as the fight doubles down, so does our commitment to give them weapons and equipment that they can use.”
Russia formally warned the US this week to stop arming Ukraine in a diplomatic note sent to the State Department by the Russian Embassy in Washington. The Russians said that the Western campaign to arm Ukraine was “adding fuel” to the conflict and could lead to “unpredictable consequences.”
Russia and Ukraine have been engaged in negotiations, but the US and its allies have signaled they don’t want Kyiv to grant any concessions to Moscow. The Washington Post reported last week that for some NATO members “it’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting, and dying, than to achieve a peace that comes too early or at too high a cost to Kyiv and the rest of Europe.”
I could see it lasting a few months but Milley is way off talking in years, Russia will want to end this in 2022
Yes, this one note chorus is most likely targeted at convincing themselves and the sheeple, and nothing to do with a truthful assessment.
The Ukraine war will last as long as America and NATO keeps sending the clown Zelensky weapons. Zelensky will keep on fighting until the last building is destroyed and last Ukrainian is dead.
Giving Zelensky weapons is like giving a mentally challenged 3 year old a loaded handgun and putting him out in public.
Well the 3 year old is apt to shoot anybody or miss entirely. The Ukrainians seem to be hitting Russian military hardware with pretty good precision.
As the real battles are won by Russia.
Indeed the whole point is to bleed Russia, so the US certainly will keep this going as long as possible no matter how many Ukrainians die nor how much risk of escalation results.
The Real Terrorists, i.e., West’s Master Zionist War Industrial Complex, makes Big Money from Conflicts, especially, Wars. Period.
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We are for sure prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian, and more importantly the Ukrainians are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian. Why did Russia stupidly fall into this trap?
A man with a decidedly blinkered view of the situation. Since Russia has adopted siege tactics for large segments of Ukraine – cutting off power, water, food and armaments, I don’t see these taking another 8 months or so to achieve the desired results. Already we have seen one mass surrender from a Ukrainian regular army unit, I don’t expect a deluge to follow, but confirmation that the tactic is working is certainly food for both sides, right now.
‘Shalom’ Tony is married to an essentially Syrian strategy of delayed urban guerilla warfare and a scorched earth retreat, but he forgets Russia was in Syria as well – watched CIA tactics and has had time to formulate an effective counter-measure. One thing Americans have never had is patience.
Mass surrenders in Mariupol are telling…….From April 3 to April 13 a minimum 1,600 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to Russian and DPR forces.
267 Ukrainian service members from 503rd Battalion of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered at the district of Kalmiyusky.
30 Ukrainian service members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) surrendered at the district of Levoberezhny.
160 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
1,026 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
134 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade, including 14 officers, surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
In summary the Ukrainian forces have surrendered, what is left in Mariupol is the hard core NATO, foreign mercenaries and Azov Nazi’s. Obviously it is NATO external powers and Ukrainian traitors that are keeping this war going.
The war is over except a few small areas and that will soon end.
“Ukrainian traitors that are keeping this war going.”
And when did you become a traitor for defending your home country? Had too much Stolichnaya again?
Russia can’t afford patience, they are loosing too many troops and sooner or later wives and mothers are going to figure it out. Then pressure starts to mount back home. Russian media is already comparing this to Afghanistan except they note that the Ukrainians are more numerous, better armed and more skillful than the Taliban.
Which Afghanistan scenario? The one that bled the Soviet Union using CIA recruited mujahideen? Or the one that bled the US using “less skilled” Taliban fighters for 20 years.
Either one, I do appreciate that the Russians didn’t return the favor and arm the Taliban against us. That was nice of them.
The length of wars are so elusive. In 1918 the German soldiers believed that they would be home victoriously by Christmas. When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union he believed that the “rotten structure” of the SU would collapse in a few weeks. I remember vividly that when the Allies landed in Normandy (I was 15 at the time and lived in occupied Amsterdam) we believed/hoped that Germany would surrender in a few weeks. It took almost a year.
And the US is going to make damn sure it does last thru 2022. Self-fulfilling prophesy at its finest.
Has Joey agreed to this?
He says a long war!
I Guess that’s how you sell the sizzle, not the steak.
What is the predetermined exit plan now?
You just can’t flip in a week and not have a reason and an Exit Strategy, so sell it like you own it!
If we Own Victory in 7 months What Reconstruction plans are there?
What happens to Russia?
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It’s B.S. Our Sec. of State has to unload a whole lot of Patriot Missiles in the time frame, which should bump up the slidong bottom dollar of an overvalued market based on a sure thing war based on SDI.
[ This news follows the successful missile attack on the Russian Destroyer under tow that showed NO visible missile damage, like the tankers on fire in the straits or the mysterious Refinery bombings of impeccable success performed we are told by Iran.
Man, if someone has that kind of airpower superiority when EVERYONE was watching and NOBODY can document the air raid or Confirm it, then I would not mess with Iran.
Blinken has a magic 8 ball? An Ouija board?
Har! I can just see Bye-Done attempting to use Ouija…he’d be pushing the planchette to wherever he wants it to go 😂
“Instead of diplomacy with Moscow, the US is significantly increasing its military aid to Ukraine.”
The US government expects the conflict to be protracted because they continue to pour gasoline on the fire.
The war is a gold mine for US defense industry — and the politicians who support them. The US and EU give their outdated weapons to Ukraine, where they immediately either get blown up by the Russians, or sold on the black market by Ukrainian generals. Either way, the EU and US now need shiny, new weapons, and that’s where Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop come in — and last week they already met with the High Priest of Corruption, Joe Biden. It’s one huge Ponzi scheme.
Well, duh.
As long as Amerikkka and NATO keep pouring gasoline on the fire rather than negotiating ( which is what civilized parties do) of course it will continue.
What does the Blinkin’ idiot expect?
Well, there are different kinds of negotiations.
Well, Thomas, you know I’m a sucker for a man on a horse, especially when he looks like Mel Gibson 😉
It seems to me that both sides are now into a long game. NATO wants to keep the war going. War has always been the gose laying golden eggs for US. War economy humming.
With Russia now playing slow protracted game, one wonders why.
I do not think it makes Zelemski happy. He gets his high from action.
Ukraine is effectively fighting an asymmetric war that Russia can’t win.
In an asymmetric war the weaker force eventually wears down the stronger force by using hit and run tactics, hiding its assets and avoiding direct confrontations with the stronger force. Victory depends on which side wins the hearts and minds of the indigenous people. Here, the Russians are at a fatal disadvantage because the history of imperial Russia, its Cossack functionaries and the Soviets oppressing the Ukraine for centuries dooms any possibility of Russian victory. Asymmetric war is a long drawn out process. The invaders are defeated in a thousand small skirmishes, not the decisive battles that the conventional militaries train and prepare for. It takes time for the defenders to win an asymmetric conflict because the invading army doesn’t suffer a decisive defeat, like Stalingrad. Rather the invading army’s losses accumulate over time and eventually the soldiers and civilians who pay for the war give up. Like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq.
In an invasion there are two stages to asymmetric war. The first is the invasion. The Russians are now taking heavy losses because the Ukrainian military is effectively hiding its assets, avoiding direct confrontations, using hit and run tactics to great effect. The invader is trying to seize and hold territory while the defender is trying to avoid direct confrontation while inflicting casualties on the invader.
But the Ukraine war has not even moved to the second stage – the occupation, where the guerrilla defenders have the greatest tactical advantage. It is much harder for an occupier to hold territory than for an invader to move into territory.
I am frankly surprised that the Ukrainian military has been as tenacious and adaptive as it has. Inlate February I thought that by mid-March the Ukrainian regulars would be defeated, the Russians would be in Kyiv and Zelenskyy would be captured or in exile. So the Ukrainians have not even reach the occupation stage.
The occupier gets caught in a negative feedback loop. Occupation engenders resistance. The occupier retaliates with reprisals. The reprisals increase resentment of the occupier which strengthens the resistance. The outcome is determined by which side has popular support, not which side has superiority in arms. The Czars’ heirs are at an insurmountable disadvantage in the Ukraine. But like a dinosaur shot through the brain, they will lumber around and do a lot of damage before realizing that they are dead.
I hope the Russian people wake up soon enough to effectively demand an end to this folly. Otherwise it could be a very long war indeed.
Kyiv has never had popular support in the areas where Russia is concentrating its efforts. Yanukovych and his “Party of Regions” had found a political solution that ALL of Ukraine supported. It was ended by a violent coup in 2014 that convinced the people of Crimea and Donbass that democracy had fallen in Ukraine.
Here is a map of the results of the 2012 Parliamentary election. Note where the Party of Regions (by far the most popular party in Ukraine at that time) had its strongest support.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Ukrainian_parliamentary_election%2C_2012.png
The Party of Regions got about 30% of the national vote in 2012 and in 2014 36 of its deputies voted to remove Yanukovych as President. I suspect that many Ukrainians, including residents of Donbass, who voted for the PoR were not voting for secession or for a Russian invasion. Ukrainian democracy is deeply flawed and it is hard to guage the accuracy of the results in Ukrainian elections. In the last census (2001) Donbass was less than 40% ethnic Russian. Many people in Donbass do not favor secession.
We will see what happens. The Russians will eventually defeat the Ukrainian army and occupy Donbass. If the people of Donbass see the Russians as liberators, the guerrilla resistance will be ineffectual and will not survive long. In asymmetric war a guerrilla movement cannot be effective without popular support no matter how much foreign aid it gets. If the Russians can quickly set up a popular government, they will be able to leave. If the people resent the Russian invasion, Russia will be unable to pacify the occupied territory and will be unable to leave. The guerrilla resistance will grow stronger with every Russian reprisal and eventually defeat the Russian invaders.
If the occupation is not over quickly, Russia will lose. In the end the Ukrainian people will decide the fate of the Russian invasion and the future of their country.
A “guerrilla movement” are the armed prisoners in Ukraine and every non uniformed Uke combatant conscripted.
The Long War rhetoric of last week has been replaced with a desire for a short war this week, that’s how we sell it.
We intend to deliver a miracle short war on what Pat Robertson says is Gog. But Gog pivots South, leaves the current theater. lol
Russia is Not Gog or MaGog
30% of Parliament doesn’t sound like much to Americans, who are accustomed to a 2 party system. But in Ukraine, The Party of Regions held 100 seats more than any other party.
It was widely reported that death threats were issued to several of their deputies, and the entire Party was disenfranchised after the coup.
While Donbass today is not 100% united against Kyiv, the region has been able to raise an army to defend itself for the last 7 years and that army is actively coordinating with Russia to surround the Kyiv army as I write.
It’s hard to gauge Russia’s intentions towards western Ukraine at this time. But I think Russia was satisfied with the way things were… until Zelensky signed National Security and Defense Council Decree no. 117/2021 last year. That decree formally stated that the policy of Ukraine was to take back, by military force if necessary, Crimea and the Donbass. I don’t think Russia has any lasting interest in occupying Ukraine outside the areas it has already defined on the battlefield.
https://seemorerocks.is/decree-of-the-president-of-ukraine-no-117-2021/
The war is moving to the occupation stage. If the Ukrainian people see the Russians as liberators, then the war is over. If the Ukrainians see the Russians as unwanted invaders, they will eventually be defeated.
So far it seems that the MSM has been airbrushing the crowds of Ukrainians cheering their Russian liberators.
“Ukraine is effectively fighting an asymmetric war that Russia can’t win. In an asymmetric war the weaker force eventually wears down the stronger force by using hit and run tactics”
How cute, learning phrases from online media and thinking you can just apply them to any war to sound like an expert. Your “asymmetric war” doesn’t exist in the vast, vast majority of occupations in world history – funny how you forget that. A guerrilla war also can’t succeed without constant supplies from outside. The communists and Algerians in France in WWII wouldn’t have lasted a month without constant air drops from Britain. No, sorry, that won’t be the case in Ukraine.
Also Ukraine isn’t Afghanistan or Iraq, where locals were motivated by religion to sacrifice themselves, and by resisting a years-long occupation. In Ukraine people know Russia won’t occupy the country, they will only free Donbass from Zelensky’s control and the Azov Battalion’s artillery attacks. You think Ukrainians will organize a “resistance” across the country against that? Hilarious. Especially since the rest of the country won’t even be under Russian control.
The U.S. easily took all of Iraq and Afghanistan. Where was your “asymmetric war”? And in fact, the U.S. could have kept both if it had accepted the cost – the “asymmetric war” could not end either occupation. Russia can take what it wants in Ukraine, and what it should take, and will not bother with the rest of the ultra-corrupt, run-into-the-ground country. Russian-built cities will be Russian again. Sorry.
How little you know about the faith of the Ruthenian Catholics or the history of the Irish liberation struggle or the Palestinian resistance. The Russians will eventually swarm and overwhelm the Ukrainian army. But the Russians will lose the occupation all the time that they believe they are winning. The US won every battle in Vietnam but lost the war.
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the Russians are not occupying the place experts with a produced backstory of snakeoil tactics define.
Your narrative of propaganda does not fit.
Russia is there killing NAZIS for a good time, not a long one.
The tankers love Inglorious Bastards and Fury, both wonderful to those who fight the Nazis now.
This by our religous beliefs is a righteous war because Russia has been tagged as Gog long before the Bible was printed. It is the Merogovian Eschatology of the EU Royals to destroy Russia.
This War that we want is a Crusade of the Merogovian Dynasty, to be the heirs of Jerusalem.
The purest grade of snakeoil around.
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the Russians are not occupying the place experts with a produced backstory of snakeoil tactics define.
Your narrative of propaganda does not fit.
Russia is there killing NAZIS for a good time, not a long one.
The tankers love Inglorious Bastards and Fury, both wonderful to those who fight the Nazis now as they personalize their equipment for all to see: they are NAZI HUNTERS.
This by our religous beliefs is a righteous war because Russia has been tagged as Gog long before the Bible was printed. It is the Merogovian Eschatology of the EU Royals to destroy Russia.
This War that we want is a Crusade of the Merogovian Dynasty, to be the heirs of Jerusalem.
The purest grade of snakeoil around.
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Your premise is based on a bad assumption of intent.
Where do you surmise that Russia is in on your terms?
Zelenski’s goon squad will not let him do anything but bleat like a Judas goat for more weaponry and for universal international condemnation.
Do our intelligence agencies work with the Azov Batllion?
if so, Why?
Russia can stop this thing in 30 minutes. Call a ceasefire, and withdraw to the 2000 borders, the Ukrainians won’t chase you. Russia doesn’t want to do that yet, so there is war.
Ukraine, actually the US, can stop this thing in 30 minutes. Sit down at the table and listen to Russia’s legitimate security concerns.
Azov Battalion will not let Zelenski negotiate.
it sucks to be him
Nor the US.
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The USA is not setting Ukrainian war policy neither is Zelenski, he is a sockpuppet of the Azoz Nazis.
We have no influence in his decisions, good or bad.
We are arming a Fascist army that bears a swatsica and has polluted the region with accepted NAZI values, many in the trades like the Steelers in Mariupal who cannot negotiate a surrender on any terms.
I vehemently disagree.
Nazis stick together
dua-kheti is a nazi wanna be
Azov Battalion will not let Zelenski negotiate.
it sucks to be him
It’s not that simple. In March 2021, Zelensky signed decrees declaring his intention to take back Crimea and Donbass. That’s when this war really started. Kyiv has been shelling the citizens of Donbass for 7 years. Russia will not abandon the ethnic Russians of Ukraine, and if Russia does leave, the war won’t stop until Crimea and Donbass are eradicated or Ukraine accepts their secession.
Yep 2000 borders.
Russia is all in. They view Ukraine as an existential threat. They won’t back down. Why is Ukraine a strategic asset to the United States? It isn’t. All I can tell is that it is a money laundering operation to give jobs to the useless children of corrupt US politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney, John Kerry and Joe Biden.
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How about NOT pouring weapons into Ukraine? Save the US taxpayers a ton of money and bring the killing to an end? Is Ukraine so important to the US that we have to get every last Ukrainian killed to defend it? Washington has made its point- that it can play smaller nations any way it wants to- so how about helping to stop the insanity instead of adding fuel to the fire?
Seems like a good deal, I blow up a million dollar Russian tank with a 100k missile and now I don’t need to build a 5 million dollar tank to counter the now smoldering Russian tank. A win win. I expect a peace dividend out of this.
You really are unbelievably naive. Do you really think that “5 million dollar tank” WON’T be built because a Russian tank was destroyed? What planet are you living on?
I do, not next year but the year after. There was a definite peace dividend after the collapse of the USSR. Eventually the Pentagon dreamed up some new threats.
The US predicts a long war, because it cannot win a short war.
The US “win” is actually quite unlikely, and talk of a long war is denial of that reality.
Also remember that winning can be losing, as when Britain and France “won” WW1 but never recovered what they had been in 1913. Their world was gone, destroyed by their war despite victory.
The US has already won. Russian military has been hugely degraded, Germany is doubling its defense budget, Finland and Sweden are joining NATO, I probably missed some stuff but those are the big items.
Listen to yourself. “The US has already won”. You are confirming that this is a war between the US and Russia, as opposed to a war between Ukraine and Russia.
Right. On. DUANE!
It appears to be a war between globalists and nationalists. Trump was an unpredictable nationalist,Putin a strong nationalist. Neither would take too much orders and had to go to make room for the NWO.
Yes, you did miss the biggest item. $813 billion and climbing. So, you are correct, the US indeed won.
Blinken is a moron. Russia will finish the Donbass Ukrainian army in the next month. Then it depends on what Russia decides to do, which Blinken can not know. If Russia decides to plow across the rest of Ukraine, as I suspect, to the Polish border, then it may take another month, depending on whether the remaining Ukrainian forces of 100,000 or less can put up any significant resistance against a Russian army of 100,000 plus 20-30,000 LDR plus 15,000 Chechens with full armor, artillery and air power. That is frankly extremely doubtful.
There are indications that the Russian approach to this operation is hardening due to Ukraine’s insistence on mocking the Russians, engaging in atrocities, and attempting to expand the war into Russian territory with pinpricks. If so, expect the Russian “soft approach” of the first few weeks to go out the window. The Donbass reduction is likely to demonstrate what Russia can do when the gloves are off.
I watched drone footage of the East district of Mariupol last night. The entire district was destroyed. Large multi-story buildings were blasted skeletons. Anything smaller was blasted down to the foundations. This is what you get with urban tank warfare. I watched drone footage of tanks maneuvering between buildings, poke the cannon muzzle out around a corner and start blasting another multistory building. Do that enough times and nothing is left.
Oh, heck. Longer than 2022.
Soviet Russia was stuck in Afghanistan for almost ten years.
Putin definitively did not think this out at all. He can call this wat any kind of special op he wants, but the AFU is a 200 000 strong NATO-guided army prepared to make this a war.
The destruction of Ukrainian command and control is meaningless.
PCR was right; this is a war and Putin can’t win this fast enough for credibility.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/04/11/ukraine-update-10/
Afghanistan has extreme hilly terrain;more options for irregular warfare.
Ukraine is a vast open plain; different opportunities for irregular warfare.
Its not like the Ukrainians are doing poorly at the moment.
Russians have a ‘coverage’ problem.
Russia offered surrender terms to the troops in the Azovstahl steel plant. According to radio interceptions, Kiev told the Azov Battalion to shoot anyone thinking of laying down arms.
The surrender time has run out. Reports coming in of the Russian Air Force launching attacks on the plant. Apparently the idea of “storming” the plant has been replaced by “flatten the plant, bury the Nazis and let China build a new plant.” If that’s the case, this could be over in a couple of days.
“The Pentagon instructed the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to withdraw all the remaining artillery to the cities on the eastern front – Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, where they can fire behind civilians.
There is video evidence of this now that’s emerged where UAF is mostly operating in the style of ISIS ‘technicals’ where they mount a machine gun on a pickup truck and drive around the countryside in search of fast ambush opportunities on RF rearguards, supply lines etc., but unlike ISIS they’re armed with tons of ATGMs and Manpads.
“Where they can fire behind civilians.”
The head of the Russian Upper Chamber’s Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty, Andrey Klimov, announced on Friday that military personnel from NATO countries were captured during the battles in Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian servicemen who surrendered, up to 400 foreign mercenaries are now surrounded on the territory of the Azovstal enterprise as part of the Ukrainian group. Most of them are citizens of European countries, as well as Canada.
“The head of the Russian Upper Chamber’s Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty, Andrey Klimov, announced on Friday that military personnel from NATO countries were captured during the battles in Ukraine.”
Got a link to that announcement? I can’t find it in English-language Russia state media.
“Andrey Klimov, announced on Friday that military personnel from NATO countries were captured during the battles in Ukraine.“
Why is Andrey Klimov working as a news anchor, are all your journalists in jail?
Similar to what that portion of the Cossacks who supported the USSR did to Russian German armor in WW2; snipe at gas tanks mounted on armored vehicles with incendiary bullets. Snipe at German soldiers lighting cigarettes at campside.
“There is video evidence of this now that’s emerged“
Oh, where is the link, would love to see that???
This is assuming that Putin wants the entirety of Ukraine. He doesn’t. Why would he wish to take on some little podunk nation, the poorest in Europe? That makes absolutely zero sense.
Putin wants Crimea and the independence of the primarily Russian-ethnic Donbas. A land corridor between would be nice too.
I’ve never really understood why Russia hasn’t aligned itself with Gaza. Russia would be rewarded with a nice port on the Mediterranean, in exchange for building materials, edibles, and security from the Zionazis. A win-win for everybody except IsraHell and Amerikkka.
He is so sure because that`s the way the Americans have planned it.
Of course it will go on, as you keep bringing in more weapons and telling the “government” and puppet Ze that they should not consider bowing to the reasonable demands of the Russians. You refused even to consider in December treating Russia with respect in its need to keep Ukraine out of NATO, and look how intimately NATO have shown itself involved in poor Ukraine now, tipping it into disaster by trying to “beat Russia” militarily.
Looks like this winter,the humans of planet earth will be faced with starvation,no heat, stagflation,hyperinflation, Covid 19, and a weaponized,beefed up bird flue.What people were saying about depopulation plans by the power elite appears to be coming through.
Real negotiations are the only possible way to minimize the loss of lives and treasure. Putin is kind of a madman, but he has tremendous destructive power, so he needs to be taken seriously. For the sake of the Ukraine, and perhaps everyone else, the rhetoric needs to be turned down, and the West needs to keep requesting serious negotiations with Putin and his security team. A bit of humble pie nearly always saves lives, and does not diminish long term objectives.
Exactly how is Putin a madman? I think you are repeating US talking points. The West is not interested in peace, but Putin is the madman right? The West in 2014 overthrew the legitimate Government in violent bloody coup and placed literal Nazi’s in power. But Putin is the madman right?
“Government in violent bloody coup and placed literal Nazi’s in power.”
Exactly how many died in that bloody coup in 2014, 10-20,000?
Nazis in the government? I think you are repeating Russian talking points.
We have a new additional republic in the Donbass, the Kherson Peoples Republic. Ukraine is getting smaller and smaller, Donbass is getting bigger and bigger.
Remember how Ukraine was winning this war right? US now Tells Kiev to Withdraw/Surrender before Russia Destroys its Massive ‘Eastern’ Army in Donbass.
Russian airforce have started bombing Azovstal. The ultimatum for Nazi’s blocked at Azovstal has expired.