Despite the increase in dialogue between the US and Russia and a shift in messaging from the Biden administration, there’s still no sign of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Russia has continued its heavy strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, and the Kremlin said Wednesday that it hasn’t had any interaction with the US about the subject of peace talks, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s representative to the UN, said that Russia will continue its “special military operation” until the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready for talks.
Nebenzya said Russia will keep up the military pressure “until the Kiev regime takes a realistic position, which will make it possible to discuss and try to settle those problems, which have prompted us to launch the special military operation.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, the highest ranking officer in the US military, has voiced support for a diplomatic solution, but his view is not popular among other Biden administration officials.
According to a report from POLITICO, after Milley first made a public call for negotiations, the Biden administration reassured Ukraine that peace talks don’t need to happen and that they would continue supporting the fight against Russia.
While back-channel talks are always possible, the Russian ambassador to the UK said Tuesday that there have been no “informal negotiations” between Russia and Ukraine. “Informal negotiations are not going on, because Kiev is very stubborn, Kiev has an illusion that it can win this war. It is pure illusion, it is not possible, but Kiev can not reject having weapons and money from the West,” Andrey Kelin told BBC.
Zelensky recently softened his public stance on negotiations with Russia after pressure from the US. He dropped the condition that he wouldn’t talk with Russia as long as Vladimir Putin is president but still demanded a Russian withdrawal, reparations, and war crimes trials to take place before negotiations could begin.
Putin’s stupid war has become a national liberation struggle. There will not be peace talks until the Ukrainians decide the time is right. The US is in no position to make peace on behalf of the Ukrainians. This is similar to when the US supported the mujahideen in Afghanistan. The US was in no position to negotiate with the Soviets on their behalf. This is a war of national resistance that became a war of national liberation. I expect peace will come when Russia recognizes Ukraine’s right to self determination, as Lenin did. But Ukrainians are doing most of the suffering and dying. Only they can determine when it is time to negotiate and on what terms.
100%agree.
“”The US is in no position to make peace on behalf of the Ukrainians””
the US just keeps perpetuating it by sending more and more arms to the ukraine
Only we can determine when it’s time to keep handing over mountains of cash and weapons to a corrupt and inflexible regime, and when it isn’t.
That corrupt country is tearing Russian a new one and has reduced the second most powerful army in the world to a banana republic Army with lots of cannon fodders, artillery and nukes.
Does it at all occur to you DJ that placing Russia in such a position might force them to use their nukes?…
They aren’t in that position. He reads the MSM too much.
Every time “Russia” does something others don’t like, the excuse from some people is that it was “provoked” or “forced” to do it.
But those same people otherwise enthuse about how Putin and Lavrov are “statesmen” with top-notch minds.
Which is it? Are they helpless pawns who just do whatever the west decides to “force” or “provoke” them into doing, or do they have minds of their own?
well russia did have minds of their own when they decided that enough was enough regarding bio-weapon labs in ukraine
Yours is a nonsensical over-simplification.
There’s plenty of blame to go around. For instance, it’s clear the US has stoked this war and is uninterested in peace.
How about, instead, with a little more nuance, they are not helpless pawns, they do have minds of their own, but they are also nevertheless somewhat constrained by circumstances too, as are all leaders, and, indeed, all humans?
The Russians are way more statesmen than zelensky. CNN opines without evidence that Russia would break any truce it might make, but it’s Ukraine that refused to implement Minsk 1 and 2 after agreeing.
Then what’s the problem? Carry on Ukraine, you are on the verge of victory.
Thanks for sharing the militarist point of view, war monger!
“This is a war of national resistance that became a war of national liberation.”
This is a war resulting from a US supported, Neo-Nazi coup against democracy that caused a civil war.
” Only they can determine when it is time to negotiate and on what terms.”
Will that be before or after Armageddon?
The US & UK don’t want peace. If they did, the war would be over by year’s end.
Billions in US aid so the Uke’s can take Ukraine? That’s pathological idiocy.
After threatening to assassinate President Yanukovych and dissolving the Party of Regions, it’s not clear that the people of Ukraine have been in charge of their own affairs since 2014. That coup started a civil war that has evolved to what we have today. Now, Zelensky has banned opposition political parties, aggressively attacked labor unions; is censoring radio, television, and the press, and has charged dozens of people in his own administration with treason.
Fortunately, there is another way to vote in Ukraine. Fifteen million people have voted with their feet in the last year. Poland received about half of them. But the almost 1 in 5 people who have fled Ukraine this year have fled to Russia.
Without lights, water, and heat, it’s likely that more people will be looking to flee very soon… unless Zelensky continues building walls along the borders.
The US is in no position to make peace on behalf of the Ukrainians.
The US is in the same position it was in when it made peace in Afghanistan. All it has to do is pull the plug on its bogus, puppet regime, and peace will ensue. Because the puppet regime will fall. See also, South Vietnam.
In both cases, the nominal government of the US puppet opposed the peace deal that the US made. And, in both cases, it didn’t matter, because without Uncle Sam’s “support,” neither regime lasted very long.
This is similar to when the US supported the mujahideen in Afghanistan.
More similar to what happened in Afghanistan in 2021. A puppet regime almost entirely dependent on the USA. That wouldn’t last very long at all without US support, same as the Kabul regime. And much more so than the Saigan regime, which mangaged to hold on for three years after formal US withdrawal. The US is not only bankrolling the Kiev regime’s military, but is also providing intelligence, diplomatic cover, sanctions, PR, etc, etc. And is bankrolling the regime’s non military expenditures as well.
This is a war of national resistance that became a war of national liberation.
Guffaw! The only parties fighting for “national liberation” in the Ukraine are the Russian speaking breakaway republics, and Russian speakers generally. They are the repressed and oppressed and colonized ethno national group. Not the Kiev based regime. The rebels in the Donbass are much more like the Mujahiddin and the Viet Minh and North Vietnam than are the press ganged, reluctant grandpa warriers from western and central Ukraine. The Donbass rebels are fighting for national liberation. The central and western Ukrainian conscripts are fighting for….what? For the sanctity of pre 1990, USSR internal borders of convenience that don’t reflect the desires of the inhabitants? For the neo fascist wet dreams of the hyper nationalist, racist scum that call the shots in Kiev? For the USA’s goal of world domination?
Please. Give it a rest, already.
Diplomacy and negotiations should not be a four letter word, war should be. The hawks in charge have it exactly backwards. As the Christmas carols singing for peace ring out this holiday season, please remember to have the courage for Peace.
when peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
and the whole world send back the song
which now the angels sing.
It is not for us to determine when the time is right for Ukra9inians to come to the negotiating table or on what terms.
Indeed, they never have to engage constructively with anyone including the US. Even the Ukrainians will wisen up eventually, they’ll just be the last to do so.
Ukranians will be the last to continue fighting for the country. Not you, not me, not anyone else.
So what? That’s what they said…that the Ukies will be the last to face reality.
I wish they could. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have seen this war from the start. They have been pulverized so many times, it’s not even funny. None of the wars made Ukraine better off. If I were Ukrainian, I would be marching for peace everyday–day and night. They win the award for the country that forgets its pulverizing wars the most. The Poles probably come in second place. For the CIA talking pointers, you missed rewriting this Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Ukraine
As a US citizen, I have a legitimate say over every dollar that is spent by the US government. And every sanction that the US government imposes. And every statement and vote made by the US at the UN and other international organizations. And every use of US intelligence agencies, spy planes, special forces, and so on.
“Us,” meaning our government, the government of the United States, has every right and every authority to tell the Zelensky regime: You take the deal the Russians are offering, or we will pull the plug on you. No more money. No more sanctions. No more intelligence. No more weapons. No more ammo. No more nothing.
I would remind you that the US has no defense treaty relationship with the Ukraine. The US, under the Budapest Agreement, was perhaps obligated to bring the alleged case of Russian aggression to the UNSC. And it has done so. Beyond that, the US is not obligated, by treaty or as a matter of honor, to do a single, god damn thing for the Kiev entity. Not spend a single penny, nor impose a single sanction, nor say a single word. It is all a matter of grace. Grace than can be revoked at any time.
It is not for US/NATO to be arming Kiev to the teeth, bust they are.
It’s not for the US & UK to be blocking peace talks, but they are.
It’s not for the US & NATO to be lionizing Neo-Nazis as heroic defenders, but they are.
You talk about peace as if the West is the one preventing it. How about you tell your emperor Putin to pull the F out.
You defy logic and common sense…
Preventing it again. As much as you try, you can’t make the peace deal that the west put a kibosh to in early April disappear like it didn’t happen.
He’s not my “emperor” and he doesn’t take orders from me. I’m a citizen of the USA. I want my country to go the extra mile for peace. If you are also a citizen of the USA, or of any other country, including Russia, I urge you to ask the same thing of your government.
Nicely said pal_2002, nicely said. blessings-donna
i think maybe there should be peace talks between Raytheon, General Electric, Lockheed etc and the rest of the world
Apparently Russia needs more than a dialogue, as I see this morning they are putting the Kibosh on peoples sexuality choices or more specifically: IT’S NOT OKAY TO BE GAY!