Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that Russia’s goal was to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and that the fighting would inevitably end through a diplomatic solution.
“So we will seek to make sure that it all ends, and the sooner, the better, of course,” Putin told reporters, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Putin’s comments came the day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington and said he wouldn’t “compromise” to reach peace in Ukraine. Zelensky’s demands for talks are the complete withdrawal of Russian forces from territory Russia has captured since February 24.
Zelensky’s demands are a non-starter for Moscow as Russian officials insist they are not leaving the territory Putin has annexed. With the positions so far apart, it’s unlikely any sort of peace talks will happen in the near future unless the US decides to press Ukraine to seek a negotiated solution, which at this point is also unlikely.
As the war drags on, Ukrainian civilians are in a dire situation as Russian missile strikes have pounded energy infrastructure, and millions are without power and heat.
Much earlier in the war, Russia and Ukraine seemed close to reaching a deal after holding in-person peace talks in Istanbul in March, but it was discouraged by the West. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv in April and urged Zelensky not to negotiate with Moscow, and according to Ukrainian media, his visit was a major factor in the scuttling of negotiations.
Turkey, the host of the Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, said later in April that some NATO members wanted the war in Ukraine to Continue to make Russia “weaker.” A few days later, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin admitted that a US goal in Ukraine was to “weaken” Russia.
Putin on Thursday also discussed the Patriot air defense missile system that the US announced it will provide Kyiv. He said Moscow would be able to “crack” the system and that the aid was just another attempt by the US to prolong the war. “It is nothing but an attempt to prolong the conflict, that’s all,” he said.
The UK — trying to cling to its previous position as Grand Pajandrum — wreaking chaos in the process. So destructive. So loathsome.
Putins demands are a non-starter for Kyiv, so there we are. Eventually they will come to agreement.
He isn’t a Jew, either. Embracing Banderites and Azov.
As long as the paycheck is big enough he will embrace anything even Biden.
The tricky who is a Jew question.
As commander of one of the sides of the conflict Putin has way more control over the duration of the conflict than Washington does.
This war will end with a comprehensive Russian victory, the unconditional surrender of the Nazi regime, and the erasure of Ukraine before the daffodils blossoms fall in late spring.
Weren’t you saying the same thing before the daffodils blossomed LAST spring?
No.
I think more or less the opposite.
We shall see.
To be fair, when Putin says diplomatic solution, he means when his army has encircled Kiev and there is no escape for the green midget wrestler.
Biden goes for unconditional surrender, looks like he will get it, just not the side he expects to do the surrender.
Wrong. Putin offered a diplomatic solution last December and was rejected by the “rules-based order” POTUS. Boris stopped the second attempt in April. It is all about us being the hegemon, an expansion of the Monroe Doctrine. Over the world. Russia and China are perceived to be in our way. Both are under the gun. So, they are more together, conducting drills together, bombers flying together. Austin has sh*t for brains and Biden has no brain.
Last Christmas, I gave my heart away. This Christmas, Putin is taking two back.
Zelensky throws his nation under the bus in the interests of the USA.
He must have been paid well with hundreds of million $$$ bills and mansions. He must have broken the record for corruption.
Your assumptions are just that – the Ukrainian nation does not feel that they have been thrown under a bus – in fact that is likely how they would have felt had Zelenskyy accepted the US offer to evacuate him in February.
Naturally it can be hard to say conclusively – but the evidence we have suggests that it is true that Zelenskyy has increased dramatically in popularity from early February – where he was at below 30%).
1) Zelenskyy can walk the town of Kyiv with no signs of protests
2) there have been one protest demonstration (in Odesa) against (the war?) blackouts since the SMO
3) there have been very few surrenders before resistance was no longer feasible
4) there has been little problems with desertions (a new law does indicate that there are some)
5) there has been significant protests e.g. in Kherson against the Russian occupiers
So what is your evidence that the Ukrainians feel they have been thrown under a bus?
you are only assuming that “the Ukrainian nation does not feel that they have been thrown under a bus”.
so what is your evidence that the Ukrainians do not feel they have been thrown under a bus?
It was in the comment – in short if they did they would have been more eager to surrender and less eager to fight – like the Afghans – there would have been more protests instead of the few we have seen etc. etc.
Don’t you know that in Mariupol the soldiers and civilians had orders not to surrender? Zelensky said no?
Russia offered safe passage and they were not allowed to accept it?
They get killed if they protest, get real.
Do you have this order documented? Because I cannot find anything to suggest that he did – even if he did, if he was as unpopular as you suggest why did they not do like the Afghans and just ignore the soon to be ex-president?
Actually, you are very naïve.
Well not half as naïve as you, as I do not in general believe in the propaganda provided by the west – whereas you appear to believe in just about anything you come across – here just today claiming that:
With I guess as usual not even a hint of (non Russian) evidence to support it.
There is something called top secret. Do the Pentagon Papers tell you something or Julian Assange? ?
So just more assertions without even a sliver of evidence to support it – always good to know – as I might otherwise be worried.
Straw man argument. The original poster said “Zelensky throws his nation under the bus in the interests of the USA.”
You argued against “the Ukrainian nation does not feel that they have been thrown under a bus.”
Do I need to point out the obvious fact that these two items are not the same thing?? That Zel-boy could (and did) throw his nation under the western bus AND his people do not (at this point in time) feel that yet, which is not odd since they are subject to relentless propaganda, violence porn, censorship, threats of violence against deviance, and feeling under “outsider” attack, which tends to create temporary feelings of nationalism and unity?
Once the dust settles, once the facts come out of what really happened here, Ukrainians are going to feel extremely betrayed. But by then Zel and his boys will be either living in their ethno-state in west Ukraine or in the western world proper.
You indeed needed to point this out! So if we cannot use the verdict of the Ukrainians themselves who is to be the judge as to whether they were thrown under the bus?
I doubt it very much, but the way you put it this is only an assertion and moreover one that we can only pass judgement on once the war is over.
“So if we cannot use the verdict of the Ukrainians themselves who is to be the judge as to whether they were thrown under the bus?”
Errr, you almost never can rely on the testimony of the victim themselves in these situations. They are far too traumatized and emotional and, in this case, completely at the mercy of one of the principals involved.
So you must use your own judgement based on facts known:
Can Ukraine “win” back all its territories as it claims is its aim? No.
Was a peace that left the Ukrainian part of Ukraine coherent and relatively undamaged possible in March 2022? Yes.
Did the Zel govt, advised and paid billions in untracked $ by the USUK turn down the possibility of peace and thereby throw the country under the bus? Yes indeed.
They can win them back like the Afghans did – or through the Russians deciding that they’d rather live in prosperity together with the west than in poverty hated by the occupied Ukrainians.
No – and the Ukrainians did not want to yield the territories the Russians wanted.
that peace agreement was and will always be seen by Ukrainians as a very bad option one that could only be forced upon an unwilling population.
But as you see here we are just disagreeing about how things will be seen by the Ukrainians of the future so – it is merely your assertions against mine.
Millions had to leave their homes. How do you think they feel? There are no real polling numbers available, no elections. People fear to be killed as collaborators by the Azov Ukrainians like the people in Bucha. The evidence available points to Ukrainians are killing Ukrainians because they may have accepted food from Russian soldiers. That makes them automatically collaborators and to be killed. Photos of such incidents are available and but not a word in MSM to my knowledge.
What about the children who suffer delayed battle fatigue stress like soldiers ???
The war is only now spreading over the western Ukraine, now they suffer the loss of infrastructure and what it is like in the long run. The fighting will hit many of them too, like in the eastern part of Ukraine.
In East Ukraine they lost some 14 000 people during the 8 years of civil war, Ukrainians killing Russian speaking Ukrainians.
You do know of the civil war in Ukraine and why?
Very angry at Putin and happy that Zelenskyy is the one person likely to get them the ability to return as free and prosperous citizens when the war is over. Mind you I’m not blind to the fact that there will be a percentage 10-20 percent depending on the area who will blame Zelenskyy.
the killing in Bucha was done and documented before the Russians left – the Azov was in Mariupol, and a few other places unless you claim that they are somehow the majority in Ukraine they simply cannot be everywhere. Thus the Ukrainian soldiers have the same options to surrender if they feel so inclined as the Afghans or at the very least fight very poorly – they do none of this.
There have been public protests in Ukraine in Odesa – they were small and they were not acted upon by the authorities – even the Russians have been complaining about the lack of public protests – and they are not treating protests in Russia with kid gloves – so the absence of protests in Ukrainian held territories speaks volumes.
Do you have any links to any of this evidence or is it just assertions as usual?
every now and the one generation has to pay so that the future generations can live in peace and prosperity – unfortunately for the present generation Putin chose them to pay – selling all future generations to save this one would be amoral.
I know about it and apparently more than you – because the 14.00 counts civilians killed on both sides – moreover during the last many years the number of civilians killed each year has been significantly below 100. In other words Putin’s invasion has killed many many times more civilians than the civil war was going to do over the next long period – when Putin talks about the west fighting to the last Ukrainian then he knows what he is talking about because he is running out of Ukrainians willing and able to fight for Russia.
Do your own research, the internet is available. Don’t give me your government propaganda. It so happens I am old enough to know what real war is, it is not just history to me.
So you have no links only assertions – you make the positive claim that there are links – I tell you that I cannot find any stories to support your claim – if you have them you can prove me wrong by showing them – I on the other hand cannot show you that there are none – so the burden of proof is on you!
“the killing in Bucha was done and documented before the Russians left ”
No it was not. Everyone here knows the truth.
Why are you here? An attention sponge with an inferiority complex perhaps or …
Who is paying you?
Apparently not – seeing as you have ignored the evidence I just provided go over it again.
I’m here to counter the kind of shallow misinformation (though that is really giving what you write too much credit) provided by people like you.
If you have actual arguments why the evidence provided is not to be believed then by all means provide it otherwise accept that the evidence of people being killed were there from before the Russians left – as in the graves the bodies were found in were dug before the Russians left.
You are making allegations, where is your evidence?
We can see on TV and You Tube every day how Ukraine and her people are crunched to dust. If you think that 9/11 was bad, spend a day in Ukraine. And Americans whined nonstop for more than a decade daily. Never a day without some reference to 9/11. Can you imagine how Hiroshima and Nagasaki looked or N Korea after carpet bombing and millions of Korean casualties? Russia has nuclear missiles able to drop bombs on the Pentagon and NY among other targets, think about that.
Just to inform you, the Ukrainian people voted for peace, Zelensky banned opposition and the leaders were imprisoned, some did not survive, they were killed, and there is only a state controlled news outlet, he covers up for war crimes, his people kill Ukrainian civilians openly, war crimes, by now public knowledge, our government must know about it. The USA is in charge in Kiev, Zelensky is the hired hand. Talk about Americans tolerating war crimes in Ukraine. They can’t say they don’t know, it is public knowledge and with evidence and the CIA and other military intelligence must be all over the place.
The American public is responsible, the knowledge is out there only our controlled MSM does not report it.
FYI in Germany everyone was held responsible for NAZI crimes. Will there be a tribunal about the crimes committed by our government?
Opposition to Zelensky is very dangerous, his opposition faces death, but you don’t know that because you don’t want to know the truth.
All reliable accounts put Putin’s approval ratings up there in the 80% and above range. He is criticized for being too soft, not using all the military power he has.
Biden wants a regime change, they failed in Venezuela and he thinks he can do it in Moscow, delusion of grandeur it is called.
No you were,cllaiming that Zelenskyy had thrown the Ukrainians under the bus – I made clear what we have seen and how that is evidence that the Ukrainians do not feel they have been thrown under the bus.
I see evidence of a war – I see no evidence that the Ukrainians are worse off than the ones in Bucha and Izium were – so I see no evidence that they want to just surrender to have peace – and for the record I did not think 9/11 was bad.
I can hardly imagine, but I take note of that none of those people asked for peace on the US terms – the Japanese did because they were threatened with Soviet occupation.
Only if they want to commit suicide and I do not believe they do.
No after being attacked by Russia he banned parties that advocated collaboration with the Russians (i.e. not all opposition parties) – just like the UK did with the fascists in WWII.
Which opposition leaders were killed? And just like UK during WWII there is control of the media – done in a different way, but the result comes to the same.
Assertions without evidence – provide links – all I know is that presented with evidence of knee capping and the shooting of Russian soldiers (pretending to) surrender – he started investigations.
The evidence suggest otherwise – as the US had to hurry a clarification that they had prevented US delivered weapons from firing into Russia – after Ukraine had fired old soviet based missiles into Russia. So if you have evidence or links provide it/them.
The war crimes that are public knowledge are the Russian shooting of civilians in Bucha, Izium and possibly Kherson – what evidence do you have of war crimes by the Ukrainians????
So what neutral media does, or do you only have it from Russian media?
No as the US has committed no crimes – if some Ukrainians have committed crimes then they may face charges, but likely only if the Russian soldiers that have committed crimes are also facing the courts.
Which of Zelenskyys opposition leaders have been killed by Zelenskyy or his government? Because I only know that some collaborators in Russian occupied territories have been killed – and they are not political opponents but traitors.
Take note this I agree with.
I could not judge – Putin is losing if not (also) the war then certainly the peace – if the Russians want to keep him that is their business.
You can’t be helped.
Ignorance is bliss.
Enjoy the Holydays and have a happy N. Year.
You just got schooled.
Try not to be so passionately biased next time. It’ll get you somewhere.
Warning, pretty graphic: War crimes of the armed forces
and security forces of Ukraine:
torture and inhumane treatment (2016)
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf
*Not every Nazi in Germany was punished. Operation Paperclip. The US brought Nazi scientists to the US.
So true.
Please, please, please just block this criminal accomplice. He’s just wasting everyone’s time. Ask yourself “Why is he here?”
Either he’s an emotionally needy attention sponge with an inferiority complex, or he’s a paid shill for Neocon criminals.
Clearly, he’s immune to the truth or any sense of ethics.
Block him. Everybody should block him.
I’m through with him.
It is torture to read the link. I could not take it.
I warned you.
It’s not his nation. Volodimor Ziolenski is not an ethnic Ukrainian. He is puppet of Anglo-American occupational regime and obviously he is ordered to make the occupation as long and as bloody as possible.
I believe you are right. I think the elite including government officials of the NATO member nations are psychopaths and equally corrupt as he is. Kissinger is right, to have the US as a friend is deadly. They will destroy the globe to get their hands on the oil. They put Hitler in the shadow.
I believe you are right. I think the elite including government officials of the NATO member nations are psychopaths and equally corrupt as he is. Kissinger is right, to have the US as a friend is deadly. They will destroy the globe to get their hands on the oil. They put Hitler in the shadow.
What a clusterf**k. Here we have Zelensky placed by a senile leader in the drivers seat of a vehicle which is now headed for a confrontation which could well end civilized human habitation over much of the planet.
Our leadership is composed of myopic idiots.
I’ve said this before. Biden wants to be the next FDR. Die in the office as he starts WW3.
Too bad, he may not live long enough to see the chaos he created.
And he is nothing like FDR.
Well, ED, FDR certainly had his shortcomings..
He did. But Biden has 10 fold those shortcomings.
True ‘Nuff.
The behavior of congress was a national disgrace.
Zelensky and Biden, low life war criminals.
The dog and pony show up at the podium made me want to retch, so I didn’t watch the rest of this pitiful display of the Speaker of the House and the Vice President fawning over the con artist.
Did he bring his piano?
Or his high heels?
This inexorable push for war with Russia can’t be explained by the profit motive, unless you consider how the real “powers that be” are no longer human, maybe some AI profit algorithm like what controls the hedge funds. They’ve determined that there are way too many humans on the planet Earth and that nuclear war with Russia would be a good thing. Maybe they’ll keep a few of us around as pets.
Hence Covid 19, which has hit the 65+ crowd in the U.S. the hardest. I know this is off topic, but I read an article the other day by the World Socialist Web Site: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/13/pers-d13.html
Being as how COVID-19 started off as a US bioweapon, first deployed in China and finally in the USA as cover for a $6+ trillion bailout of the big banks and corporations with the collapse of the hedge fund market, I would have to agree with you.
Send this conspiracy to Jesse Ventura, he may add a new season to his old show just for this BS.
“This inexorable push for war with Russia can’t be explained by the profit motive”
Why not? It can be entirely explained by the profit motive, actually, in my opinion. Note that the profit in question is to a few connected persons and the society at large is of course much poorer and even risks annihilation if mistakes are made. But MICIMATT are making out like bandits.
Those “few connected persons” have long ago been supplanted by entities that have no use for actual human beings whatsoever. Hence, the “great reset” is inevitable.
Rumors of obsolescence of humanity are greatly exaggerated, as we saw in Covid time with the sudden necessity and grudging appreciation of “critical workers” … the masters of the universe found out that they need their nurses, food preparers, and delivery drivers after all. But they are greedy bastards, I’ll give you that …
Robots can do all of those things, and soon will.
I agree. Given time, AI, databases, and autonomous robots may be able to displace human workers throughout the economy. But that can only happen if people, having lost their primary source of income, can still afford to buy things.
The answer to that problem is… fewer people. That’s why the real “powers that be” are pushing for nuclear war with the Ruskies.
*ding-ding-ding*
We have a winner!
Now y’all know the reasons behind every social engineering program for the last 70 years. Everything. From anti-reproductive policies, sexism, racism and ethnocentric propaganda. Assault on family, sexuality and “gender” ideologies. It is all aimed at reducing population.
“entities that have no use for actual human beings…the ‘great reset’ is inevitable”
exit ramp, please – as a conceit, it was a mildly amusing riff on ‘judgment day’ type dystopian stories, with a good point about the semi-autonomy of the profit motive from human needs and desires…like 19th c images of capitalism or the coal mines as ‘moloch,’ eating people.
but as literal vs metaphor? – ‘make us their pets’? – you’ve flushed that meaning down the capitalist crapper, and now yr wandering away from the porta-potty into the swampy no man’s land of crank casualties of capitalism…from which few return…buh-byyyeeee…
Natural resources, profits and power go together.
Control of the global energy markets and economies adds up to power and more profits.
All wars are about material advantages but sold to the people to die for it is all about ideals, like Freedom, Democracy and Religion and human rights, never for money.
The USA always goes to war to bring the people the blessings of Western Values, freedom and Democracy, never for resources or markets or strategic advantages. They do not want to control Venezuela’s oil, they want the Venezuelans to have a Democracy and live free and happy ever after. They are the nicest conquistadors one can imagine.
Zelensky is blindly obsessed with land. Presumably that’s because a huge chunk of Ukraine’s wealth lies in the Donbass and Crimea. But I suspect Biden has his eyes on Russia’s vast energy resources and scarce minerals, including potash.
It’s part MIC profit and part the US not wanting to lose geopolitical hegemony.
The thirst for the power and the wealth is good enough motivation for the gambling. In case they win, all profits are theirs. If they lose, they still have chance to survive in their bunkers and live the rest of their lives in comfort and luxury somewhere deep underground.
On the other hand, the nuclear war is not what they want (if they are not sure they can win). As we know from the history, Russia was destroyed from inside more than twice. They hope, it may happen again if they invest enough money and efforts to achieve this goal. Actually, no one counted how many billions were invested in Russian “fifth column” in the last 20 years.
The war in Ukraine is a great achievement in itself. Their investment in Ukraine were very much successful. They made former Soviet people and their children to kill each other. About quarter of million are dead already and there no foreseeable end to this military conflict. And in addition, they created a huge crisis in EU and made EU capital and EU business migrate from Europe to US.
Speaking of pets, Thomas: that’s a huge issue of concern for me.
Of course I worry about the unfortunate human beings affected by ZelBoy and ByeDone’s intractability, but I’m deeply concerned about the poor cats and dogs left behind, probably living in bombed-out buildings, scrounging to try to stay alive.
War affects all of Nature’s creatures.
Actually the notion of humans as pets is a bad analogy. It’s more like animals being kept in a zoo.
They aren’t. The ruling parasites don’t have basic qualifications to be human. They lack humanity. In fact, these psychopathic pests use humanity as a weapon. They understand how to use humans for their benefit and unfortunately they do it very well.
It begs the question, when does inhuman become non-human?
That sounds like an existential question and one that has haunted us throughout our existence…
Putin wanted to end it before it started. Back in December, 2021. No dice from our administration. Back in 1991, The Soviet Union, come Russia, wanted to be a member of the Western Alliance. No dice from us/NATO. Further encirclement. Our lying MF administrations through the years have put the world in this predicament.
Russia could not be a member of a defensive alliance against the Russians – what a shocker!
NATO was never a defensive alliance. It was always meant to keep Russia down to prevent Germany and Russia to be economic partners.
Anglo-Saxons opposed any economic relations between them since the Bismarck Germany.
Read a little, like George Friedman from Stratfor.
He is a conservative, you can handle that I think.
Well if you are just going to deny the reality of the creation of NATO then why do we debate at all? NATO was a defensive alliance against Russia (Germany was not a member and to some extent you can claim that it was also at the time seen as an alliance against the Germans though that soon went out the window).
That does not change the fact that NATO was a defensive alliance against Russia – this does not even change though there was also a fear that the Germans might ally with Russia – Germany was not a founding member of NATO and NATO was supposed to protect its members against attack from non NATO members i.e. also Germany should they ally with Russia – this only held true until Germany was allowed into NATO (partially exactly to attract them away from an alliance with Russia) – and again that does not change the defensive purpose of NATO.
There was no reason to fear Russia, it was down and tried to get back on its feet. You have no idea what the Russian people went through during years of war. You must be living on another planet. The Russian people, all people in Europe wanted nothing more than peace, that includes the statesmen, all they wanted was a better world, never again , was the slogan of the war generation. You have no idea what you talk about. They knew war, he have no inkling what it does to nations.
Not what people in Europe believed at the time – nor indeed now – I happen to live here and my grand parents were very much afraid of the Russians – the fear of the communists was a very real thing – if you do not know this it must be you who are living in a different part of the world though which I cannot guess if you are not familiar with the fear of the communist Russians post WWII.
Yet they occupied Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia and gave the people there very little freedom of choice – are you perhaps forgetting this?
I think I can reasonably safely say that the Russians were in no way alone in having experienced war, they were however alone in the way they treated even countries that had not fought them, but fought the Germans – this is a very large part of why they were feared – did you really not know this, if so are you by any chance Russian or of Russian descend?
We’ve had Trump Derangement Syndrome, Covid Derangement Syndrome, Zionist Derangement Syndrome, and Commie Derangement Syndrome … with the last transformed now into Russia Derangement Syndrome.
(NATO may have started out with a defensive purpose — in addition to a MIC profit center — per Commie Derangement Syndrome, but with the demise of the commie threat — ie the end of the Soviet Union — it went into full Neocon offense mode.)
For the record: this is for the readership, not for you MIchael. You are just a Russia Derangement Syndrome propagandist — or perhaps a chatbot.
And you it would appear is just a believer of conspiracy theories.
“Putin Says the Sooner Conflict in Ukraine Ends, the Better”
US : Americans must accept war “as long as it takes” – idea that “sooner” end to slaughter is “better” is “just what Putin wants you to think”
Alex Mercouris points out something on YouTube we don’t hear about in the West. The de facto dictator Zelensky says civilians must be kept in Kiev “to make it harder for Russia to take the city.”
Translation: “We are using civilians as human shields.”
Not that Russia would take Kiev, for which you need at least 80,000 soldiers and many months. But refusing to evacuate them, which should be done, is a way to make them suffer. The suffering can then be exploited before the cameras.
The actor Zelensky only thinks about how things look in the Western cameras. His goal is to make the West start a war against Russia, as he has said repeatedly. “A no-fly zone,” “hey, you’re already in WWIII anyway.” He’ll force the people in Kiev to live without electricity, without heat, without the water that can’t be pumped without electricity. He WANTS them to die. To film it.
When Ukraine’s air defenses miss, and fall down and hit civilian buildings, they claim that it’s Russia’s missiles. Like Zelensky insisting that the Ukie rocket that landed in Poland was from Russia. (NYT and other leftist media: “A Russian-made rocket landed in Poland.”) Kept insisting against all evidence. Exploit the suffering.
Massacre people in Buchska. People with white armbands, which means they were working with the Russians. Then blame it on “Russia massacred them.” Exploit the suffering.
It goes without saying that Zelensky isn’t actually a Ukrainian. He doesn’t care about them other than as a tool to use.
I couldn’t agree more, it happens the way you tell it, and we do know if we only want to know.
So why is it that they called for people who could to relocate?
They are not evacuating people from areas that are not under immediate threat – and as you point out Kyiv is not.
Contradicting yourself – if he only cared how it looked in western cameras then he would have known that calling for a no fly zone would not work – so that was clearly evidence of his desire to act in the interests of the Ukrainians and get NATO directly involved (which NATO declined).
Why then has the Ukrainian government called for the ones that can to relocate? And if it is such a massive win for the Ukrainians why have the Russians provided it for him by bombing the electricity infrastructure?
Yes shocker it is a war and there will be propaganda.
Are you seriously blaming him for trying to get the west to help his people???
The photos of the corpses were there before the Ukrainians entered the city.
“Yes shocker it is a war and there will be propaganda.”
The expert speaks.
“The photos of the corpses were there before the Ukrainians entered the city.”
False … and more proof you are a propagandist.
The photos of the graves are there – that you may not believe it is an entirely different matter:
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-mass-grave-satellite-images-show-45-foot-long-trench-at-grave-site-in-ukraines-bucha-2861138
So you are either a liar or shamefully incompetent when it comes to searching for the evidence.
Alex Mercouris?
Great source. Must be true.
Is Putin announcing a shortcut to his military objectives in Ukraine?
Did he give up on de-militarizing and de-nazifying Ukraine? Those objectives are rather later.
Russia is facing a new threat. The recession is going to hurt Russia’s energy revenues, much like COVID did in 2020. To make matters worse, Russia has announced that it will voluntarily cut oil production by as much as 700,000 barrels a day (to prop up the price per barrel and to ease the drop in demand likely to hit other major OPEC countries very soon.)
He’s obviously correct in pointing out that we’re hurting ourselves with our ongoing attempts to interfere with the energy market.
Biden undoubtedly thinks that he can outlast Putin in this war of attrition. But the unexpected consequences have and will continue to be far more severe than he expected. The collapse of the Petrodollar, the transfer of capital from Europe to Asia, and the growing conviction in many countries that the US no longer wears a white hat, are examples of what Biden has put in motion.
What evidence do you see of a of a collapse in the Petrodollar?
just asking because all I can find is evidence that trade in Petroyuan and other alternatives are rather unattractive – hence even if the Russians temporary are using other currencies they are not likely to attract many followers.
https://www.energyintel.com/00000184-15bf-df66-a797-ddffc2380000
To reiterate, I said that Biden has put the collapse of the Petrodollar in motion. I’m not saying it has already happened. China is currently negotiating with Saudi Arabia to buy oil in yuan, and buys natural gas from Russia in Rubles. China is the world’s largest oil importer. India, the world’s 3rd largest oil importer, is also considering oil purchases in non-dollar currency from Russia.
To reiterate, Biden has put the collapse of the Petrodollar in motion. It hasn’t collapsed yet. But China and India, two of the largest oil importers today, have, or expect to have, deals to purchase oil without using dollars. China is also working on a deal with Saudi Arabia.
As the article I gave you a link to tells you that may very well be a temporary issue – the problem being that the petroyuan is not an attractive alternative – the Russians wanted the Chinese to pay in Ruble but they AFAIK declined offering Yuan instead – the Saudi Arabians may accept Yuan for a while, but as China is on the verge of a very difficult economic period I kind of doubt it.
As you point out it is for the future to tell – all I’m saying here is that it does not at present seem at all like a done deal.