Kikapu wrote:Putin laid down the condition where there would be peace in Ukraine. Did he expect the collective West to accept it as they have accepted Zelensky’s bullshit proposals for peace? No, Putin did not expect his proposal to be accepted since it was not meant to be accepted despite conditions on the ground, but it has given Putin a talking point to the West’s hypocrisy that they are willing to accept a losing sides ridiculous proposals and dismiss the winning sides proposals no matter how unpalatable it may be for the collective West and Zelensky.
So, this makes it the 4th peace proposal by Russia starting before 2014 against Ukraine’s 1st. Since 2014, a lot of Ukrainian land has been annexed by Russia through war and referendums. Now Russia will push to take the rest of Ukraine’s Black Sea coastline, including Odessa, to complete their mission, then blame the collective West of lost opportunity to keep Odessa Ukrainian. Without any Black Sea coastline for Ukraine, Ukraine as a potential NATO member has no strategic military value for the collective West against Russia, despite the trillions of dollars of mineral deposits in Ukraine which the cunt-face Lindsey Graham talked about few days ago.
If I’m not mistaken, some of those trillions of Dollars of mineral deposits are already in the Russian controlled areas of Ukraine, and as the war continues, trillions of dollars of more mineral deposits will become part of Russia. All a while, the collective West is trying to collect pennies on the dollar interest money from frozen assets of Russia’s 300 billion dollars by the collective West in order to give it back to Ukraine as a compensation, so they say!
By all indications, Zelensky and Ukraine are getting screwed more by their so called collective West Alles than they have been by the one time, Russian brothers. At least the Russians were willing to allow Ukraine to be free and neutral with the Minsk agreements and in 2022 after the war began. Now, there’s no saving of Zelensky or Ukraine by their so called “allies” in the collective West.
America does not like any country that does not serve her interests and Ukraine staying neutral whilst would have served both Russian and Ukrainian interests, it goes against American interests as they cannot suck the wealth out of Ukraine. At least this way they managed to sell a lot of arms to Ukraine and elsewhere in the world despite the fact that American government pays for it, the American Arms industry is the winner here. I have no doubt most of the arms are not aid but trade on loan and one way or another the Americans will get their money back. Every which way they win.