The Russian Presidential Aide and head of the Russian negotiating group with Ukraine also said that recently the Russian Military Historical Society handed over several thousand books to the institutions where Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held, including textbooks on the history of Russia in the 20th century and pamphlets about Bandera
This guy makes one mistake in his reasoning. He’s absolutely right about Trump not offering a real peace deal, but he talks about the conflict as if it’s something the US forced on Russia, which is of course not true; it’s Russia, and specifically Putin, who chose to start this war and invade Ukraine. He talks about NATO expansion as if that’s something the US is pushing, but again, countries want to join NATO because they feel threatened by Russia.
Russia started this war because NATO rejected Ukraine’s membership, leaving Ukraine vulnerable. But it wasn’t a definitive rejection, leaving Putin to think he had a closing window of opportunity to invade Ukraine, which is why he rushed into this foolish war. Harder guarantees for Ukrainian security would have dissuaded Putin.
EU, meanwhile, never wanted anything like this, and even remained in denial after the invasion started. The EU just wants to trade with Russia and treat it as a normal country, a trading partner. Even after Putin invaded, they kept buying Russian gas for quite some time and some countries really didn’t want to stop. Because gas is more important than human lives, to some.
Freezing the conflict is a bad idea; there needs to be a permanent peace, but there can only be a permanent peace if Russia stops invading its neighbours (this wasn’t the first time), and Putin made it clear he has no plans to stop. He’s frequently talking about Lithuania, Moldova, and more recently Azerbaijan.
It’s pretty clear what the problem is here. It’s Russian imperialism. Putin’s dreams of empire. His unwillingness to accept other nations as equals.
This is a very naive reading of the Ukraine-Russian conflict. First of all, the conflict actually started in 2014 when Russia reacted by annexing Crimea after president Yanukovych was ousted following the Maidan uprising (which was carried out with EU/US support). Since then, there have been many skirmishes between Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatist groups in the Donbass region, before Russia escalated the conflict in 2022. You should know that Crimea and Donbass are regions of a Russian ethnical majority, and these people didn’t support the Maidan uprising.
Secondly, I am tired of people (especially liberals) which talk about laws, agreements and treaties as having some kind of supernatural power to stop things from happening. It’s as if treaties, laws, agreements and commitments were never broken in real life, as if there was a supreme mystical power that bounded every party to commit to them.
Ukraine is not under NATO in all but paper. Its troops were trained by NATO countries, they are being supplied by NATO countries, there are mercenaries (and clandestine troops) from NATO fighting in the frontlines, the intelligence provided to Ukraine is from NATO countries. Not only that but the top NATO members are overseeing all Ukraine political decisions. Ukraine is not in NATO today because NATO countries never wanted to be directly involved in the first place and just wanted that Ukraine and Russia to bleed each other for their benefit.
Today NATO is actually a means to make all members fund the US military industrial complex, and provide other material and human resources to US, Germany, France and UK imperialist adventures. To this day NATO was never used as a defensive alliance, but NATO was always used in offensives against other countries. If Russia was weak like Afghanistan, then I’m sure NATO would have advanced in full force, like they did after the 9/11 attacks.
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“What matters is the will of the fascists who overthrew the democratically elected government.”
It was a coup by Banderite fascists with US support. Maidan was a false flag massacre of protesters & police by Banderite snipers. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685
So the coup-government-backed Banderite paramilitary attacks on eastern & southern Ukraine between 2014 and 2022, causing ~14,000 fatalities had nothing to do with it?
The US has been pushing that since the Warsaw Pact dissolved, and was planning for it long before. Weaponizing Europe, Countering Eurasia: Mackinder, Brzezinski, Nuland and the Road to the Ukraine War
Next you’re going to tell us that NATO is a defensive alliance.
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