On Friday, British Prime Minister Borish Johnson spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and said that he urged Ukraine against negotiating with Russia.
According to a readout of the call from Johnson’s office, the British leader updated Macron on his April 9 visit to Kyiv. “The Prime Minister updated on his visit to Kyiv last month and shared his conviction that Ukraine would win, supported with the right level of defensive military assistance,” the readout said.
The readout said Johnson “urged against any negotiations with Russia on terms that gave credence to the Kremlin’s false narrative for the invasion but stressed that this was a decision for the Ukrainian government.”
According to a report from Ukrainska Pravda citing sources close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Johnson told the Ukrainian leader during his Kyiv visit that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be pressured, not negotiated with.
The report said that Johnson told Zelensky that “even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin,” Kyiv’s Western backers are not ready. The report said Johnson’s position is that of the “collective West,” which now feels Putin is not as strong as they initially thought and see the war as an opportunity to “press him.”
Johnson’s position lines up with the rhetoric that has been coming out of the Biden administration. At the end of April, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said one of Washington’s goals in Ukraine is to see a “weakened” Russia.
The Biden administration has abandoned diplomacy with Russia and does not appear to be interested in a diplomatic solution to end the war. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hasn’t spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since February 15, and President Biden has no known plans to hold talks with Putin.
Macron is one of the few Western leaders that has held talks with Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine and favors negotiations as a way to end the war. On Monday, he said peace would be achieved through negotiations. “We will have a peace to build tomorrow, let us never forget that … We will have to do this with Ukraine and Russia around the table. The end of the discussion and the negotiation will be set by Ukraine and Russia.”
Now children, use your words! stop hitting each other! says the kindergarten teacher we’ve all heard. But that’s no fun! and words are hard! I have to think about what I’m doing. I’d rather just hit! respond her annoyed student combatants.
I fear Russia might make an example out of Ukraine just to stick it to US/UK.
More than just make an example of Ukraine.
The West is headed for a serious geopolitical and geo-economic pasting; no small amount will be self-inflicted by WEF Reset games. Such a useful lever for the Eurasians to nudge.
Russia’s bizarre warfighting is only matched by China’s bizarre zero-COVID policies.
While they would seem to harm the Chinese people most, they also seriously further undermine global supply chains and the Western COVID recovery.
This is at a time when we need some economic growth to fund Biden’s European war.
…. Or not, for manic Resetters eager to further the WEF-fen SS crashing of the West into a neo-feudal Globalist Socialist utopia.
Weren’t we just saying the point of all these weapons was to put Ukraine in a stronger negotiating position?! Ukraine is a tool we have not yet used up, so an outbreak of peace must be prevented apparently.
Negotiations are really off limit, Biden, as evil as he is, does not dare so openly. It is Biden’s war, he worked and supported it going way back. He will be the war president he must have wanted to be.
Actually it’s thee Deep State foreign policy project going all the way back to at least the US invasion in 1920.
My thoughts: As much as I support diplomacy, it’s pretty difficult to negotiate with Russia at this point when they are constantly saying one thing and doing another. Never admitting any wrongdoing and blaming everything on Ukraine and West. And I get it, Ukrainians aren’t Saints either but it is Russia the one pounding the country at will. Plus, by now it is clear that all Russia wants is the Ukraine eastern rich lands, huge oil reserves, and its prolific seaports which will significantly cut Ukraine’s GDP. Returning any piece of occupied land back to Ukraine is off the table hence why Ukrainian are forced to fight back to gain as much as they can.
That’s easy for him to say. Every night Russia demolishes a little more of the country. Just this week by Ukraine’s own admission it has lost around 800 troops to airstrikes. In Severdonetsk there are roughly 1000 troops effectively surrounded, out of ammo and supplies. Russia may be taking the slow and steady road, but it is only leading to total capitulation for the midget Z and his handlers.
I haven’t heard any Ukrainian admission that it lost 800 troops this week. Can you share the source?
Also, highly doubt that if true, it was due to airstrikes. Russia sucks at airstrikes and they have yet to establish air superiority.
Best guess: The Russians have probably established air superiority (although clearly not air supremacy) in the east where their ground operations are centered.
They don’t seem to be using their air power very well in terms of combined arms, and they’re unlikely to establish air supremacy anywhere for the same reason their armor wasn’t as effective as most people expected (man-portable anti-air missiles, etc.).
Argument accepted but…
Air superiority is defined as being able to conduct air operations “without prohibitive interference by the opposing force.” Air supremacy goes further, wherein the opposing air force is incapable of effective interference.
Given this definition, one could argue it is limited air superiority on certain areas but, I wouldn’t write that on a report as Air Superiority.
The Russians are not into bombing civilians, that may explain it.
Did you get that on Russian MSM? GTFOH.
You should try to get in touch with the RF general staff. I am sure that they cant wait to share in your vast tactical knowledge………
I don’t know Thomas but I’m pretty sure he does have tactical knowledge of value. You, on the other hand, can only offer peanut gallery comments.
MSM would not bother to inform you. That makes it understandable, how could you know?
You and your MSM. Can you mention the news you watch that is not MSM? By the way, Russian news outlets are also considered MSM, but state controlled.
RT and Sputnik remind me of how ours were – 30 years ago.
Biased, sure, but still broadly informative.
All the Russian trolls on this site are:
1) Extremely eager to attack other people’s sources
2) Very unlikely to ever reveal their own “sources”
It’s hilarious, it really is. But they are so brainwashed that they can’t see the irony in it.
It’s terrifying that they are so willing to accept Russian state media without question but won’t believe facts reported by multiple news sources based in counties with free speech.
Soldiers sign up for that; becoming a casualty is an occupational hazard.
The real casualties that matter are the civilian ones. Not that this changes my stance that the Ukraine War is not a war we should enable or abet from North America.
European wars should stay European wars. If nothing else, they would end faster.
As of May 8, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 7,061 civilian casualties in the country: 3,381 killed and 3,680 injured.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2022/05/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-9-may-2022
How many miles of territory does Russia have to conquer? How many troops does it lose per mile? I bet if you run the numbers you will come to the conclusion that it can’t happen. The USA shipped UKr 200,000 155mm artillery shells. That is a lot of potential dead Russians.
Yes, and that makes the U.S. a co-belligerent. Russia is not fighting Ukraine. They are fighting the U.S. and NATO.
Not even close, If they were fighting NATO there would be no more black sea fleet, there would be no more Russian air force within hundreds of miles of the border, Russian troops would be subject to continuous accurate attack from the air. None of that is the case.
Ukraine is fighting for Boris!
Zelenski is held hostage by certain parties within Kiev.
Until the Russians accept their inevitable defeat and agree to withdraw to the February 23rd lines it is unlikely that there will be peace. The Russians are fighting and losing a classic war of national resistance. History repeats itself.
If bluster and bullshit and macho poses win wars, Putin better pretty quick suite for peace.
Putin is behaving just like Brezhnev who couldn’t comprehend how a superpower could be defeated by a guerrilla movement. Russia has already lost the war. Putin’s victory day speech was a parthetic attempt to prepare the Russian people for a long war that they have already lost. Unfortunately when great powers lose asymmetric wars, they can hang on and do a lot of damage for many years. Usually it takes a new leadership to end the war and that probably is the case in Russia.
There’s no comparison with Afghanistan. Here all is open to plain sight, nothing covert. The Ukraine is an wholly owned Nazi goon squad with only the wispiest of loin cloth to preserve any shred of legal dignity.
But you’re right it may well take some long years to defeat The Empire who’s war budget, even without NATO, is 16x Putin’s. And Putin is under no illusions about his relative strength. Hence we’re seeing no dramatic triumphalism; only a grimly determined daily grind.
Wow, well the Russian army is going to be ground to powder,, slow national suicide being committed in the Ukrainian mud. Amazing to watch.
And what does NATO/US/Ukraine have to agree to? Anything? I can understand your thinking though since you continuously pretend they are all innocent and this is just Russian imperialism.
They are helping the Ukrainians with some weapons shipments and some training assistance, maybe the odd friendly hint as to Russian forces positions, but other than that this is all by the Ukrainians.
Was that sarcasm? Has to be. Otherwise, you’re admitting that Ukraine is just supplying the bodies for fodder and the US is supplying all the necessities for the actual war.
Isn’t that what is happening? Oh and the Russians are providing targets.
While Ukrainians go unscathed? Those bodies being provided by Ukraine are also dying. We provided the war and Russia and Ukraine provided the bodies. THAT is what happened.
The Ukrainians are very scathed, I expect they won’t forgive the Russians until this has passed from living memory. Don’t forget who invaded who.
That doesn’t stop them from dying for the US/NATO cause. But I guess you’ll trade deaths for as long as it takes. I get that.
Russia is fighting NATO, which is having the ring it its collective noses yanked by us. Russia has confirmed what I believe Russian leaders have thought since 1991 (if not earlier) that Russia will never be invited to the party. The party of nations.
It is not fair how Russia was treated or the past 30 years. It was not fair how Germany was treated after WWI. But “not fair” does not justify a war of aggression. The parallels between Germany’s invasion of Poland and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are striking. Both wars were attempts by imperial powers to use war to reset the strategic shifts which had marginalized Germany and Russia when they each lost out in inter-imperialist rivalries. And Putin’s Pan-Russianism and Pan-Slavism is similar to Hitler’s pan-Germanism.
Russia has spent centuries on the border of Europe looking in but never quite being in.
Russia uncovered Ukrainian plans to attack; they may have just been contingency plans, the usual military what-if-maybe planning, but the Separatists weren’t going to be allowed to rebel forever.
Then there are the Pentagon/Ukraine WMD programs, which contrary to Russian miscalculation made a non-NATO Ukraine far more dangerous.
There’s too much money at stake for Eastern Euro oligarchs invested in Ukraine, for the costly status quo to have been allowed to stand indefinitely.
Biden and Putin were antagonistic but willing to kick the can at first, but that didn’t survive the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and hand-forcing.
The issue between the separatists and their government is an internal Ukrainian matter. If Russia is concerned about ethnic ?Russians in the Ukraine there are diplomatic channels, or support for an indigenous Ukrainian opposition or working with China with an economic carrot and stick approach.
But I am certain that many more people have died in Putin’s than would have been killed if Ukraine tried to retake Donbass.
Not according to European history.
Attacking another nation’s diaspora has never been exclusively an ‘internal matter’ if the offended mother/father nation could do something about that.
A Ukraine assault into the Donbass would have been bloody, yet some including myself figured Putin would rather risk those casualties as it gave him the clear pretext to intervene and end an ethnic cleansing.
Instead Putin chose an Article 51 pre-emptive strike.
Russia, does not take pointers from China on geopolitics. The idea is almost laughable, actually…
If anything, China is following Russia’s lead in the peculiar Shanghai zero-COVID lockdowns. That’s a disaster for global supply chains, at least to the West and the Western COVID recovery.
Its not like supporting Ukraine’s neo-Nazis and neo-Nazi enablers/exploiters is cheap.
Yes Hitler used that rational as well, it has been discredited.
Putin isn’t Hitler, though. Not even close.
Hitler wanted Russian land for German living space more or less the way the US wanted Aboriginal land for their living space. Hitler even modeled his concentration camps after Indian reservations.
Putin wanted to protect the Russian and pro-Russian Ukrainian minority in Ukraine, most of whom were only Ukrainian because of a Soviet bureaucratic decision to add Russian land to Ukraine.
Western Ukrainian extremists looked at the map and saw only ‘their’ living space for themselves, not that there were legit peoples already living there.
The Russian minority was disliked to some extent even by moderate pro-Western Ukranians. Russian voting numbers denied their aspirations to join Western Europe, and were seen as a means for Russia to manipulate their politics.
The UN Charter discredited unilateral war for any reason till the US decided to intervene in the Kosovo war on the new interpretation of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) against ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Modern Ukrainian nationalism was a delicate thing; behind the modern values driving populist Maidan, at least as sold to the West, there was a deeper vein of extremist violence and ethno-racial supremacism.
Senselessly supporting either side in this war does not help the cause of peace.
However, the pro-Ukraine side has no material or moral argument whereas the Russians only sullied their valid position with an ill-fought war made before diplomatic options were explored.
There was a clock running, though. Pentagon-Ukraine WMD and conventional weapons development programs were well underway, such that Zelensky floated the idea of Ukraine becoming a true nuclear power – against Russia.
Putin also misunderstood that a non-aligned Ukraine was more of a danger than a NATO Ukraine constrained from attacking Russia by the direct threat of entering NATO into WWIII.
Had Ukraine been part of NATO (which no Western NATO country really wants) there would be tension but no real possibility of war except as WWIII.
Hitler made no mistakes except to allow his generals to persuade him prioritize taking Moscow, instead of dedicating all forces to seizing non-Russian Soviet oil and industry as he originally intended.
Feb 23 2000. They gambled and they lost, it has to cost them something. It is important that the Russians know they lost.
We the people here and in Europe are being manipulated to go to war against Russia the same way we were manipulated to support the Iraq war, based on lies, big lies. They are ready to level Ukraine and Europe to ashes if we are lucky enough.
Members of MSM know it too, they are not stupide, but they are evil like all the NAZI LEADERS are. They are in bed with the Ukrainian NAZIS.
Morally and intellectually Biden and his administration are as evil as the Hitler regime was. They are war criminals, Biden carried water for Iraq and Pakistan and Ukraine, and the Bush people, the Wolfowitz people are still there, all neocons real Nazis full of hate of Russia and the Russian people.
Sounds like BoJo wants Kiev to turn Ukraine into a wasteland with tens of millions killed.
Did BoJo also tell Kiev not to negotiate with the 7 million Ukrainians who invited the Russian peacekeepers in to stop the 8 year civil war ? Did BoJo also tell Kiev not to negotiate with the 50,000 Ukrainians fighting alongside the 125,000 peacekeepers ?
This war would end PDQ if Kiev simply agreed to implement UNSC 2202
Russian peacekeepers in Ukraine? Are you joking? I doubt you can find 1 single Ukrainian right now that wants Russian peacekeepers. If you are talking about Russian separatists, that’s a different story.
You don’t send the very country involved in a conflict as peacekeepers.
Three principles of UN Peacekeeping:
Consent of the parties
Impartiality
Non-use of force except in self-defence and defence of the mandate
Russia is out of the pool of candidates.
3 Ukrainian ladies weeping for joy to be liberated from Kiev. There are 7 million more examples
https://thesaker.is/victory-parade-in-mariupol-ukraine-09-may-2022-mariupol-citizen/
Would you bet your life on those ladies being Ukrainians? Hope not, because they are clearly Russians. Listen to their accents, plus the first one actually said it. But Don’t take my word. Ask a Russian friend.
Those are ladies from the separatists region.
They live in Ukraine, they were born in Ukraine, and Zelensky in Kiev says he wants to rule over them.
The people don’t dare admit it, they know the Azov battalions are killing the Ukrainian people, see Bucha.
Russia is fighting a war of self-defense, NATO started to attack Russia the day they started to move NATO closer to the Russian border. USA/NATO are the aggressors, the Ukraine regime change was an act of aggression, sanctions are acts of war. The USA is the aggressor, has been the aggressor every time, the Biden people are lawless people. They respect no international law, they are a lawless brutal hegemon using proxies to do their dirty work, the monster even attacked little Grenada way back and imposes sanctions on Cuba for more than 6 decades. Just evil.
Azov Battalions? How many are there? I thought it was only one. But that’s ok. They have grown from 900 soldiers to a super power in 3 months.
If the people in Kiev told you there are only 900 it must be true, they would never lie.
The people in Moscow told me they are a nuclear superpower that will invade Russia soon and kill everybody.
Azov Battalion can refer both to the actual organization as well as its myriad clones.
Ukraine’s neo-Nazi extremist political supporters and popular militia units are NATO/Kiev’s most dedicated ‘nation builders’ and ‘defenders’.
They came to dominate the political elite and permeate every level of society no differently than the original Nazis came to dominate Germany.
The Azov Battalion must consist of people straight out of The Avengers, Thor, the Hulk etc.
Imagine what 3-4 battalions could do, they would probably have taken Moscow by now…
Soon they will be dead.
Renate, we can disagree over whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is justified. But you simply can’t call a preemptive war a war of self defense. Ukraine never attacked Russia and had no capacity to threaten Russia.
Ukraine did have the capacity to threaten Russia via their alliance with the worst of NATO.
No. The Eurasian strategic situation changed irreversibly when NATO went from 16 to 30 nations. Even if Ukraine became the 31st NATO nation, that would only marginally change the strategic threat to Russia. This is why Putin’s decision to revert to a preemptive war of conquest is a threat to the world. Even if Russia could win in the Ukraine, Putin would need to continue the war to reach his goal of resetting Russia’s strategic disadvantage following thirty years of NATO expansion and Russian decline. Conquering Ukraine will not restore Russia as a superpower. To do that Putin will have to defeat NATO.
Ironically, Putin’s war is achieving exactly the reverse of his goals and is an unfolding disaster for Russia. As a direct result of the war, Sweden and Finland are joining NATO with Ukraine and Georgia sure to follow. NATO itself has been revitalized and despite differences, is uniting against a belligerent Russia.
Putin expected a quick victory because he never understood his enemy. The Russians don’t beleive their is a Ukrainian nation and were completely unprepared for the motivation of the Ukrainian defenders or the unity of the Ukrainian nation in the face of aggression for the nation that had oppressed Ukrainians for centuries.
Russia would be in a stronger position today if Putin had not invaded Ukraine.
The USA is a brutal global hegemon, a monster and the biggest real danger to the whole world. The Biden administration is the most dangerous criminal government, intellectually and morally bankrupt.
OK, but Russia shouldn’t invade its neighbors.
And Ukraine shouldn’t kill ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
And ethnic Russians shouldn’t form a breakaway region by force of arms.
Didn’t NATO/U.S. support break away regions in Yugoslavia?
I was busy then, I think they did after some mass slaughter. They were protecting Muslims, which generally is odd.
Ukraine adding to the overwhelming threat of NATO may have been inconsequential, but a threat is a threat.
Putin tried to draw an Article 51 line in Ukraine. Likely Syria was supposed to be the original the line in the sand, but we all know how well that went.
Whether or not President Putin succeeds in Ukraine may be in doubt, but the threat Ukraine made was real and cannot be in doubt.
As far as the Kremlin is concerned, NATO and the West are not only agreement-incapable, but not rational actors. Decades of ruthless US/NATO warmongering unchecked is a matter of record.
Russia is as strong today as when they didn’t invade Ukraine; its just that Westward points of support THEY DIDN’T NEED have been removed.
Putin’s record of seeming miscalculation is a point of obvious concern.
However, Russia is decoupled from what some might see as parasitical Western crony capitalists – by the Western crony capitalist’s own hand.
Western sociopathic xenophobia and racism is VERY public and noticeable. Arm-twisting the non-white world to support Russophobia and neo-Nazi Ukraine is not going down very well.
And the West is oblivious; they are going to demonstrate dominance and force hegemony once and for all as usual.
Western potential for abuse of financial power is starkly clear internationally as it has been realized. North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela aren’t exceptions anymore. Whether Russian oligarchs or Canadian Truckers, sovereign nations and people have no financial rights according to Western law.
Western political elite contempt and disdain for the rest of the world and even their own citizens has never been more shamelessly apparent.
Western sanctions have crippled the West far more than Russia so far. Life has always been tough in Russia, but they have inexpensive gas for their vehicles and heating, and food on store shelves including baby formula.
Only fanatically blind pursuit of their precious Reset prevents the dominant Western leftist factions from seeing they just owned-goaled bigly stupendously bad.
We’re geopolitically cauldroned, not merely in danger of being geopolitically cauldroned. And across the class spectrum, some idiots LIKE that.
Russia does NOT want to be a superpower-just a reasonable country sharing the world with others. China the same. You have spent 20 years ignoring all the words and actions of Pres. Putin. Read a bit. Onserve, and think.
You make a good point. I don’t entirely agree. But I don’t pretend to know everything about anything.
But I have a question for you and other people of good will who believe that Ukraine poses an “existential threat” to Russia.
Suppose that Russia withdrew from Ukraine except for Crimea. How would that hurt the Russian people? Where is the existential threat?
I understand that US/NATO are an existential threat to Russia. But how does Ukraine appreciably increase the threat?
The addition of Ukraine to NATO does not make US/NATO much stronger. I just don’t see the importance of stopping NATO expansion into one more country. Does Putin intend to dismantle NATO by force? That would mean a very big war, probably a nuclear war. So if Russia withdrew from Ukraine, how would that hurt the Russian people?
Of course, it is NATO that is the issue. Russia does not see Ukraine as the threat and is not fighting Ukraine, but stopping the USA∕CIA∕NATO menace which cannot be denied. It is NATO which calls Russia a threat and the West which imposes the cruel and vicious “sanctions” trying to destroy Russia. Is it Ukraine that is stuffing itself with money and weapons? Is it “defending itself” by putting good troops into the Donbass region which Russian speakers and militia have declared independent for 8 years and where Ukraine refused to follow the UN-sponsored Minsk agreements for peace? Why in December did the USA, NATO refuse even to consider the Russian proposals for security for all countries, not just NATO members excluding any need for Russian security? to pretend Russia has no reason for its actions denies all facts.
Ukraine is right next door, and NATO wants to put more nukes as it does in Romania and Poland. Of course Russia asks for some security, just like all others want, but NATO and the USA refused, right up to last December when Russia made certain demands, which were rudely ignored by the West. An agreement would h
There are no NATO nukes in neither Poland nor Romania – but do not let such ‘details’ bother you.
Poland has changed its stance on housing nukes, but only in April 2022 – so that is what Putin has achieved by his war of aggression.
Putin did not ask for security he demanded that NATO left several countries so they would not enjoy the security of NATO membership – quite a different idea.
HAHAHA§ you think NATO offers security??We shall see.
I have no doubt that being in NATO offers more security than not being in NATO – as fairly clearly demonstrated in 2008 and 2022 by Georgia and Ukraine.
Don’t invade other countries then, and especially if you don’t have the ability to pull it off. If Pooties plan A had worked he likely would have gotten away with it, some sanctions and some huffing and puffing but a victory. Plan A didn’t work and he has no real plan B.
Poor john. Invade????Try your dear USA destroying every land it can, for spurious reasons.
You think I am proud or happy or even supported any of that? We are clearly responsible for more than our fair share of death and destruction. We are not a peaceful people. Why would you suppose messing with us is even a remotely good idea? You think you are fighting the USA, you are not, not even close.
When the dust settles things may look very different. Comparisons with WW I are topical and instructive. As WW I&II were the last gambit of Great Britain, this may well by Washington’s.
It seems pretty clear that the future for better or worse belongs to Asia.
Not at all clear, collapsing populations and a semi messed up economy with tons and tons of bad debt yet to be recognized. China is looking at some problems in the near future.
This is a long planed offensive war against Russia. Ukraine alone is no danger to Russia, but being an US/NATO proxy did make it an existential threat to Russia. The USA is the belligerent party and Biden and Austin finally said what it is about , “to weaken Russia and replace Putin with someone the USA can control and like”. The USA has been attacking Russia for years, sanctions is warfare, meant to destroy another nation’s economy, and ganging up and encircling a nation as NATO has been doing sends a message too. These are deliberate provocations meant to start a war. The USA is the aggressor, what you want to call it is nothing but semantics. The USA and its NATO and Ukraine proxies are an existential threat to Russia. Self-defenses is legal and clear cut, all else is political obfuscating the reality.
I would be surprised and very disappointed and would in fact protest if NATO troops set foot on Russian territory.
It’s a: “I kill you before you even can think of hurting me” mentality.
DJ please stop. BORING.
“Russian separatists”
In your tiny bigoted racist mind you do understand that ethnic Russians are Ukrainian citizens? Perhaps you believe only ethnic Ukrainians can be real Ukrainians? Or do you believe the Nazis should do a bit of ethnic cleansing and genocide on them?
That ship has sailed. There will be no negotiations. Russia is going to finish this. You’d better be more worried about what happens when Poland invades Ukraine. Will Russia let them have Galicia or not? I vote not. Then we’ll see if Biden wants a war with Russia. Which NATO will lose – badly. Remember Russia has only invaded Ukraine with ten percent of its available force, not even counting reserves.
Gotta keep the Anglosphere on-board with Europe First.
No surprise Prince Charles read the throne speech, not Her Majesty.
The Queen has not been right since her COVID shots, but the new agenda would be a sharp departure from the world she knew and thought she was dedicating her life to sustaining.
lol
If you cannot negotiate the only alternative is fight to a death.
Ukranians below the gorund are worth more than those above the ground . Flower of peace needs human sacrifice to blossom . Silence of the underworld best ensures the voices of the mass murderers to be heard by the dirigible with mandatory utmost passive attention .
This is old news, even the UKie news reports it. Boris is a war criminal causing huge losses of his “beloved Ukies” as they are not allowed by King Zelenskyy and his minders to negotiate AT ALL, and must die rather than surrender even when the situation is hopeless. Pretending Ukraine can win if we give it enough money and weapons is a fantasy.
Yes Boris Johnson, wait until all Ukrainians are dead or gone then negotiate.
That is BS, it is up to the Ukrainians and only the Ukrainians to decide when to negotiate. BJ has to remember the difference between involvement and commitment. In you bacon and eggs breakfast the chicken is involved but the pig is committed. The more and better weapons the Ukrainians have the more they will “press” Russian.