Ukraine faces potential military collapse if cease-fire is delayed another few months as Russia races to take more territory before a peace deal is finalized.
- I think that in the (near ???) future there will a bunch of "regional powers/Empires" and I think the US will be one of them.
- I am NOT sure what the REAL reasons are for Trump & Co. to give up the agenda of world hegemony. I fear that Trump & Co. are only interested in FINANCIAL gains and that that will / could destabilize the world as well and (think: e.g. Panama or Greenland) keep the US Defense budget this high or even increase that budget.
- I think a 10% cut in the defense budget would already make the US army much more efficient. Then also all the fraud/waste and abuse would disappear to a large extent. And cut say 90% of all nuclear related spending. Very healthy for creating a more stable world.
- This is one reason less to hate Trump but there are still 999 reasons left for me to hate Trump.
How duplicitous - even cowardly - are proxy wars? Shame on NATO and my government for fomenting and continuing this slaughter over Ukraine. Lots from which to choose, but IMO this might “take the cake” for despicable deeds.
How did Ukraine go from saying no to NATO in 2010, after the U.S. financed Orange Color Revolution attempt of 2004, to a second Color Revolution and coup detat in 2014?
I'll tell you how. More U.S. led regime change. The U.S. has no right to negotiate any of the terms to ending this war because the U.S. is the one that started this war. Led a coup against the democratically elected government and installed the illegal post coup government.
The pursuit of hegemony isn't a legal or moral basis for any war. Any Hegemon is by definition the aggressor because hegemony can only exist by means of violence.
I agree that the Maidan coup was illegitimate. Biden started the war not the US. Biden was an illegitimate President. No one claims Trump is illegitimate and he opposed Biden's war in Ukraine from the start so the US should negotiate directly with Moscow to obtain the best possible agreement for Ukraine acceptable to Russia and end the war. That's what Putin wants. Then we present the peace agreement to Zelensky and the Chairman of the Rada for signature and if he refuses to sign, then we permanently suspend all aid to Kyiv, pull all our troops out of Ukraine along with as many weapon systems as we can take back and tell him he is on his own.
The war started with the Maidan Coup. That was when the Nazi Fascists took over and the U.S. handpicked the new illegitimate government.
Actually the war started with the first NATO expansion. Wars always start long before the first shot is fired. Wars start when they are conceived in the minds of men.
Wars are rarely crimes of passion. They are almost always premeditated. They begin with publicly exposing the targeted victim as the enemy. And yourself as the victim.
Just as every journey begins with the first step.
There were so many off ramps to this war but the West refused to take any of them because it felt Rusdia was weak.
You lose credibility when you approvingly say "the [US is] getting other nations to do our bidding."
You reveal the true face of ugly Uncle Sam who wants the world to be slaves of the United States.
You use "socialist" as accusation when describing Trudeau and Schulz. By the way, Trudeau resigned because for months his support had been sharply declining. Your comment is typical American ignorance of Canada.
You also don't mention the criminal and insane Trump plan to exile Gaza Palestinians from their homeland to Jordan and Egypt so that Israel can grab Gaza and Trump's son builds condominiums in Gaza in addition to getting hold of the offshore mines west of Gaza. By the way, when more than 50 percent of Jordanian citizens are Palestinian, why should impoverished Jordan accept more Palestinians? Of course, once Palestinians of Gaza are forced out, it will be the West Bank which will be emptied of Palestinians. Arrogant and zionist Trump assumes the world is asleep.
I strongly disagree with Trump's statement that he wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinians and agree that none should be deported against their will. Of course, he would never do it as that would be a war crime. Trump sometimes says the wrong things but he remains an incredible force for peace in the world in contrast to Biden's irrational pursuit of global hegemony through regional wars. I am a traditional regional hegemonist of the pre-WW2 era who has always opposed America's drive for global hegemony over the past eighty years.
"... restored a hope in America's future not seen since the Reagan-Bush"
Hopes were also high after the Obama election (whose election victory was somewhat more impressive than Trump's, and he did not have an absolute idiot, a mere "Lachsack", as his opponent). Anyway, hopes after presidential elections have always been succeeded by cold showers. "Reaganomics" was one of the milestones of America's economic decline.
I doubt that Mr Trump's opinion, whatever it is, about Ukraine matters. That ship has sailed. Trump's threat of more tariffs on Russia are as ridiculous as Mr Kellogg's utterances about lower oil prices, and betray the ignorance of the American political class of our days.
Trump's battles for his place in history are the economic front, where he thinks tariffs will solve all issues of the US, and the only major playing field left for the US foreign policy, Western Asia, where he seems to be following in Genocide Joe's role as the tail of the dog Netanyahu and his consorts
The West is so decadent these days, they do not even build the best bombs anymore.
- I don't think Russia is interested in a seize fire any time soon.
- I am not surprised of those high desertion rates when one knows that the Ukraine is one of the most (if not the most) corrupt countries in the world. Who wants to fight for such an corrupt "regime" ?
- Aren't you aware that europeans countries also "chipped in" billions and billions worth of military equipment and "fiancial help" and now you want to make the europeans pay even more ? Denmark sent all its artillery to the Ukraine and that got destroyed in the Ukraine.
- It was the US + Uk who were "hell bent" on starting that war, NOT Europe. As a result of the location of Europe, Europe has a set of different interests when it comes to Ukraine & Russia. Germany & France know/knew very well what would happen if NATO would allow the Ukraine to join NATO. But it was the US who pushed through that decision (with all the predicted consequences).
I don’t want a peace that humiliates Putin and Russia so they won’t want revenge later. Putin needs to appear strong and victorious. How Ukraine feels about a place plan is unimportant. They are ultimately unimportant just like Korea, Viet Nam, Cuba, Nicaragua and all the other proxy fight countries. Putin still has nukes. Unfortunately so does North Korea so some butt has to be kissed there. If we want Russia on good terms with us, we can’t beat them down. In essence, we have to get them rich and get them laid.
This Trump plan would end the war by Russia's Victory Day. So long as the peace deal partially demilitarizes Ukraine, Putin can present it as a victory and then everyone gets to live happily ever after instead of fighting a nuclear war on European soil as Biden attempted to do.
The terms and phrases which you use to refer to this supposed deal are very telling. You say that Putin can present it as a victory.
You phrase it in the passive tense with regards to Putin. When you say he can present it as a victory you are acknowledging that it isn't a real victory for him, but you're content to let him believe it is if that's all it takes to get him to politically accept it on behalf of his voters.
You also talk about the U.S. offering Putin a deal that's based on the minimum criteria he will accept.
You talk about this deal as if Russia is losing and is desperate to make when neither is true.
You're still in the U.S. fantasy that Russia doesn't mean what it says. Russia isn't going to surrender on May 9th.
I watched an interview that a German reporter conducted with Maria Zakharova and towards the end of the interview he asked her if the Russians would help the Germans if they were starving because of the destruction of their economy and her response was that the Russian people have offered the hand of friendship to the German people and the West often but to only have their hand swatted away.
If you think that Apartheid and Segregation were bad then think how the Russians feel about the West.
Lastly you say that Putin is only concerned about the stationing of missles and NATO in Ukraine but he doesn't care about the geography of Ukraine through which it has historically been invaded.
Obviously you haven't been listening to Putin, Lavarov and Maria. They've constantly opined about the fact that Russia has no geographic barriers on its Western borders. What's been Putin's constant warning with regards to a nuclear war? He's constantly reminded the U.S. that their 2 oceans will not save them.
Putin is dead serious about a neutral Ukraine that has no umbilical cord with the West. No MNNA or E.U., or NATO.
Once again I ask, what is this reason for the U.S. fatal attraction to Ukraine? Ukraine is of no vital interest to the U.S. nor of Western Europe.
If Donald Trump wants peace then the best thing he can do is to mind his own business. He can create this fantasy world where he never would've allowed the war to start had he been president but it is a lie.
Trump put in place policies that put fire on the war and there's no chance that he would've sought peace. He would've doubled down just like Biden did.
Russia's going into Ukraine wasn't an outright invasion as the U.S. and its NATO allies have been guilty of on numerous occasions.
It was a legitimate act of self defense based on the fact that Ukraine had been guilty of record shelling of the Russian speaking population of the Donbass.
And also based on the words of the Anthony Blinken who reneged on a promise uttered to President Putin that the U.S. wouldn't station nuclear capable missles in Ukraine.
There's precedent for what Russia did and ironically that precedent was set by Canada when it preemptively stopped an attack by the U.S. on Canadian soil.
That incident is, The Caroline Affair, and it is the basis for international law allowing a country to strike first if an attack is imminent and there isn't time to prevent the attack by any other means than military force.
I don't see how you can't call Russia's invasion of Ukraine an invasion. They invaded eight Ukrainian oblasts and partially surrounded the Ukrainian capitol. I do agree that the Russians viewed it as a strategic defensive move against NATO imperial expansion. and they certainly have a legitimate basis for that argument as I detail in my article. The US has never stationed nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe including Ukraine but long range missiles like ATACMS are inherently nuclear capable whether the US has ever stuck a nuke in one or not. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not a pre-emptive attack because there was no imminent threat to Russia only to ethnic Russians in the Donbass. But I think you could credibly argue it was a preventive attack.
So you're saying Russia should've let the genocide continue?
The U.S. didn't see it that way when it went i to Serbia. There was no danger to NATO but the U.S. got a plumb of a prize out of it by being able to build a NATO base in Kosovo.
I don't accept your reasoning because we both know that the U.S. would've done the same thing if there was anything like what was going on in the Donbasd if it were taking place in Canada or Mexico.
Just look at Trump's threats to send U.S. troops into Panama, Mexico, Venezuela, look at what the U.S. did to Haiti and Grenada. What about what is being done to Taiwan or the threat to use military force against Greenland.
The Russians were told that they would've have no right to limit the number of missles or inspect them. Plus the missles that were going to be installed could easily be equipped with nuclear warheads so the possibility was a clearly imminent threat.
The Russians couldn't afford to let them be installed and hope for the best.
There were over 20 CIA bases in Ukraine. Biological research was being conducted on bioweapons that would target Russians.
The U.S. and the West aren't trustworthy. The Russians aren't going to forget. And Putin won't forgive and forget. You can bieve that what Maria said in that interview is an accurate, unfiltered expression of the Russian leadership and people.
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/did-the-us-declare-the-end-of-the
Mario Rubio admitted that the "Uni Polar moment" for the US ended.
Yes we have already seen much progress in terms of the Trump administration giving up the Biden policy of global hegemony in just the past 12 days.
- I think that in the (near ???) future there will a bunch of "regional powers/Empires" and I think the US will be one of them.
- I am NOT sure what the REAL reasons are for Trump & Co. to give up the agenda of world hegemony. I fear that Trump & Co. are only interested in FINANCIAL gains and that that will / could destabilize the world as well and (think: e.g. Panama or Greenland) keep the US Defense budget this high or even increase that budget.
- I think a 10% cut in the defense budget would already make the US army much more efficient. Then also all the fraud/waste and abuse would disappear to a large extent. And cut say 90% of all nuclear related spending. Very healthy for creating a more stable world.
- This is one reason less to hate Trump but there are still 999 reasons left for me to hate Trump.
How duplicitous - even cowardly - are proxy wars? Shame on NATO and my government for fomenting and continuing this slaughter over Ukraine. Lots from which to choose, but IMO this might “take the cake” for despicable deeds.
How did Ukraine go from saying no to NATO in 2010, after the U.S. financed Orange Color Revolution attempt of 2004, to a second Color Revolution and coup detat in 2014?
I'll tell you how. More U.S. led regime change. The U.S. has no right to negotiate any of the terms to ending this war because the U.S. is the one that started this war. Led a coup against the democratically elected government and installed the illegal post coup government.
The pursuit of hegemony isn't a legal or moral basis for any war. Any Hegemon is by definition the aggressor because hegemony can only exist by means of violence.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2010/03/29/ukraine-says-no-to-nato/
I agree that the Maidan coup was illegitimate. Biden started the war not the US. Biden was an illegitimate President. No one claims Trump is illegitimate and he opposed Biden's war in Ukraine from the start so the US should negotiate directly with Moscow to obtain the best possible agreement for Ukraine acceptable to Russia and end the war. That's what Putin wants. Then we present the peace agreement to Zelensky and the Chairman of the Rada for signature and if he refuses to sign, then we permanently suspend all aid to Kyiv, pull all our troops out of Ukraine along with as many weapon systems as we can take back and tell him he is on his own.
The war started with the Maidan Coup. That was when the Nazi Fascists took over and the U.S. handpicked the new illegitimate government.
Actually the war started with the first NATO expansion. Wars always start long before the first shot is fired. Wars start when they are conceived in the minds of men.
Wars are rarely crimes of passion. They are almost always premeditated. They begin with publicly exposing the targeted victim as the enemy. And yourself as the victim.
Just as every journey begins with the first step.
There were so many off ramps to this war but the West refused to take any of them because it felt Rusdia was weak.
You lose credibility when you approvingly say "the [US is] getting other nations to do our bidding."
You reveal the true face of ugly Uncle Sam who wants the world to be slaves of the United States.
You use "socialist" as accusation when describing Trudeau and Schulz. By the way, Trudeau resigned because for months his support had been sharply declining. Your comment is typical American ignorance of Canada.
You also don't mention the criminal and insane Trump plan to exile Gaza Palestinians from their homeland to Jordan and Egypt so that Israel can grab Gaza and Trump's son builds condominiums in Gaza in addition to getting hold of the offshore mines west of Gaza. By the way, when more than 50 percent of Jordanian citizens are Palestinian, why should impoverished Jordan accept more Palestinians? Of course, once Palestinians of Gaza are forced out, it will be the West Bank which will be emptied of Palestinians. Arrogant and zionist Trump assumes the world is asleep.
I strongly disagree with Trump's statement that he wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinians and agree that none should be deported against their will. Of course, he would never do it as that would be a war crime. Trump sometimes says the wrong things but he remains an incredible force for peace in the world in contrast to Biden's irrational pursuit of global hegemony through regional wars. I am a traditional regional hegemonist of the pre-WW2 era who has always opposed America's drive for global hegemony over the past eighty years.
"... restored a hope in America's future not seen since the Reagan-Bush"
Hopes were also high after the Obama election (whose election victory was somewhat more impressive than Trump's, and he did not have an absolute idiot, a mere "Lachsack", as his opponent). Anyway, hopes after presidential elections have always been succeeded by cold showers. "Reaganomics" was one of the milestones of America's economic decline.
I doubt that Mr Trump's opinion, whatever it is, about Ukraine matters. That ship has sailed. Trump's threat of more tariffs on Russia are as ridiculous as Mr Kellogg's utterances about lower oil prices, and betray the ignorance of the American political class of our days.
Trump's battles for his place in history are the economic front, where he thinks tariffs will solve all issues of the US, and the only major playing field left for the US foreign policy, Western Asia, where he seems to be following in Genocide Joe's role as the tail of the dog Netanyahu and his consorts
The West is so decadent these days, they do not even build the best bombs anymore.
- I don't think Russia is interested in a seize fire any time soon.
- I am not surprised of those high desertion rates when one knows that the Ukraine is one of the most (if not the most) corrupt countries in the world. Who wants to fight for such an corrupt "regime" ?
- Aren't you aware that europeans countries also "chipped in" billions and billions worth of military equipment and "fiancial help" and now you want to make the europeans pay even more ? Denmark sent all its artillery to the Ukraine and that got destroyed in the Ukraine.
- It was the US + Uk who were "hell bent" on starting that war, NOT Europe. As a result of the location of Europe, Europe has a set of different interests when it comes to Ukraine & Russia. Germany & France know/knew very well what would happen if NATO would allow the Ukraine to join NATO. But it was the US who pushed through that decision (with all the predicted consequences).
I don’t want a peace that humiliates Putin and Russia so they won’t want revenge later. Putin needs to appear strong and victorious. How Ukraine feels about a place plan is unimportant. They are ultimately unimportant just like Korea, Viet Nam, Cuba, Nicaragua and all the other proxy fight countries. Putin still has nukes. Unfortunately so does North Korea so some butt has to be kissed there. If we want Russia on good terms with us, we can’t beat them down. In essence, we have to get them rich and get them laid.
This Trump plan would end the war by Russia's Victory Day. So long as the peace deal partially demilitarizes Ukraine, Putin can present it as a victory and then everyone gets to live happily ever after instead of fighting a nuclear war on European soil as Biden attempted to do.
The terms and phrases which you use to refer to this supposed deal are very telling. You say that Putin can present it as a victory.
You phrase it in the passive tense with regards to Putin. When you say he can present it as a victory you are acknowledging that it isn't a real victory for him, but you're content to let him believe it is if that's all it takes to get him to politically accept it on behalf of his voters.
You also talk about the U.S. offering Putin a deal that's based on the minimum criteria he will accept.
You talk about this deal as if Russia is losing and is desperate to make when neither is true.
You're still in the U.S. fantasy that Russia doesn't mean what it says. Russia isn't going to surrender on May 9th.
I watched an interview that a German reporter conducted with Maria Zakharova and towards the end of the interview he asked her if the Russians would help the Germans if they were starving because of the destruction of their economy and her response was that the Russian people have offered the hand of friendship to the German people and the West often but to only have their hand swatted away.
If you think that Apartheid and Segregation were bad then think how the Russians feel about the West.
Lastly you say that Putin is only concerned about the stationing of missles and NATO in Ukraine but he doesn't care about the geography of Ukraine through which it has historically been invaded.
Obviously you haven't been listening to Putin, Lavarov and Maria. They've constantly opined about the fact that Russia has no geographic barriers on its Western borders. What's been Putin's constant warning with regards to a nuclear war? He's constantly reminded the U.S. that their 2 oceans will not save them.
Putin is dead serious about a neutral Ukraine that has no umbilical cord with the West. No MNNA or E.U., or NATO.
Once again I ask, what is this reason for the U.S. fatal attraction to Ukraine? Ukraine is of no vital interest to the U.S. nor of Western Europe.
If Donald Trump wants peace then the best thing he can do is to mind his own business. He can create this fantasy world where he never would've allowed the war to start had he been president but it is a lie.
Trump put in place policies that put fire on the war and there's no chance that he would've sought peace. He would've doubled down just like Biden did.
Russia's going into Ukraine wasn't an outright invasion as the U.S. and its NATO allies have been guilty of on numerous occasions.
It was a legitimate act of self defense based on the fact that Ukraine had been guilty of record shelling of the Russian speaking population of the Donbass.
And also based on the words of the Anthony Blinken who reneged on a promise uttered to President Putin that the U.S. wouldn't station nuclear capable missles in Ukraine.
There's precedent for what Russia did and ironically that precedent was set by Canada when it preemptively stopped an attack by the U.S. on Canadian soil.
That incident is, The Caroline Affair, and it is the basis for international law allowing a country to strike first if an attack is imminent and there isn't time to prevent the attack by any other means than military force.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_test
I don't see how you can't call Russia's invasion of Ukraine an invasion. They invaded eight Ukrainian oblasts and partially surrounded the Ukrainian capitol. I do agree that the Russians viewed it as a strategic defensive move against NATO imperial expansion. and they certainly have a legitimate basis for that argument as I detail in my article. The US has never stationed nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe including Ukraine but long range missiles like ATACMS are inherently nuclear capable whether the US has ever stuck a nuke in one or not. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not a pre-emptive attack because there was no imminent threat to Russia only to ethnic Russians in the Donbass. But I think you could credibly argue it was a preventive attack.
So you're saying Russia should've let the genocide continue?
The U.S. didn't see it that way when it went i to Serbia. There was no danger to NATO but the U.S. got a plumb of a prize out of it by being able to build a NATO base in Kosovo.
I don't accept your reasoning because we both know that the U.S. would've done the same thing if there was anything like what was going on in the Donbasd if it were taking place in Canada or Mexico.
Just look at Trump's threats to send U.S. troops into Panama, Mexico, Venezuela, look at what the U.S. did to Haiti and Grenada. What about what is being done to Taiwan or the threat to use military force against Greenland.
The Russians were told that they would've have no right to limit the number of missles or inspect them. Plus the missles that were going to be installed could easily be equipped with nuclear warheads so the possibility was a clearly imminent threat.
The Russians couldn't afford to let them be installed and hope for the best.
There were over 20 CIA bases in Ukraine. Biological research was being conducted on bioweapons that would target Russians.
The U.S. and the West aren't trustworthy. The Russians aren't going to forget. And Putin won't forgive and forget. You can bieve that what Maria said in that interview is an accurate, unfiltered expression of the Russian leadership and people.