This is very old news, but very telling when you consider the ‘peace’ that Trump is trying to push for. His quote was “I mean, he’s taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart,”.
This is on Feb 24th, just hours into the invasion, and Trump - a private citizen at this point - already knows what Putin’s objectives are. When he had explicitly not declared, and was still sitting on the “SMO” nonsense to de-nazify Ukraine.
Yet Trump is already aware that the goal is total conquest, and he’s celebrating it. The stalled line of tanks to Kyiv and even Hostomel airport hadn’t happened yet.
It’s an old, old soviet trick, to get certain useful idiots in the west talk about the need for peace, sow confusion and dissent, while Moscow makes war to achieve it’s objectives. What they really mean is - you should surrender. He’s not a peacemaker. He’s an agent of the enemy. And you should consider that before agreeing to anything he’s proposing.
I have never believed in this US-Ruz Plan, so personally I can’t take it seriously. I think strategically that in the end, we have to force Ruzzia in a position that they’ll have no other option but to ask for a ceasefire and real negotiations. Unfortunately, I see no other way they will stop. Could very well be that we are reaching this point faster then we think, like you said.
For sure, this is the way.
Yes. Had never thought of that.