Russia is not going to accept any outcome from Ukraine, except one that guarantees it is protected from further aggression by Nato. That’s not a red line … one that the US can repeatedly push back and pretend does not exist, nor is it a Minsk “treaty” that can be ignored and pushed back and back. It is THE outcome of the conflict, one which Russia will NEVER concede as long as there is a Russia. And, it is clear to me that Russia is prepared to do whatever it takes, including nuclear war to achieve that security.
Because, if nuclear war is the only way to provide for long term security for Russia, then Russia will go for nuclear war rather than allow Russia to be destroyed by Nato.
As such, I can only imagine Trump, is a moron who thinks he can “negotiate” the Russians to accept the unacceptable. Very politely the Russians say нет . Which Trump seems to imagine means they are “willing to negotiate” or that they are somehow “weak” etc. etc.
Trump’s only tactic when negotiating is to offer an outrageous deal, and then imagine that the other side will accept whatever deal he then imposes. He is like an ostrich doing a highly convoluted dance in front of a hunter with a very big gun. The hunter is not shooting out of weakness. It is not shooting, because it sees no point killing the dumb bird.
The reality is that the Russians are very willing to keep the war going for another decade (or more) to ensure the security that they now clearly require from Nato aggression … and the repeated dishonesty about treaties by Nato, hasn’t helped at all, because the Russians will not accept any bit of paper for a peace, only a secure border which they can police, free from ALL Nato intrusion.
This isn’t about Ukraine. The Russians couldn’t care less about Ukraine. This is not about territory, this is not about anything else other than a border that Russia can protect itself from Nato. The Russians don’t want a piece of paper, they are going to get a secure physical border, and they are going to do whatever it takes to get that secure border.
And, the more idiotic the offerings from Trump & the even worse EU Oligarchs, the further the Russians know they have to prosecute the war in order to get a big enough (fascist free) buffer zone to cope with the idiots on the other side.
So, keep trying the tricks Trump … it isn’t impressing the Russians, and far from getting us closer to peace, your tactics are making peace more and more unreachable without massive escalation.
Explanation
As far as the Russians are concerned the EU and US are stark raving bonkers. They want to destroy Russia, and imagine they can impose an agreement to destroy Russia on Russia. All their behaviour is doing, is to convince the Russians that they have utterly no choice but a cast iron secure border and a buffer zone to protect them from the EU and Nato.
The more arms the EU sends to Ukraine, the bigger that buffer zone gets. The longer the range of missiles, the EU is prepared to use, the larger that buffer zone gets. If, that buffer zone gets so large it includes part of the EU … then a bigger war is the price the Russians have to pay for their security from the EU.
The more outrageous the behaviour of the EU … blocking candidates from standing in elections, blocking people from travelling to Russia, the bigger they feel that buffer zone has to be to secure them from the insanity that is the EU.
And, once they have that secure border and buffer zone … what goes on beyond that in the cloud cuckoo land of the EU is the EU’s concern … so long as they do not step one cm into the buffer zone.
So … the very idea that the US … the heart of all aggression for much of a century against Russia, should have ANY presence AT ALL … ANYWHERE NEAR RUSSIA, Particularly at a nuclear facility where they will undoubtedly locate nuclear missiles … because that is how the US clowns are bound to behave … is clearly intended to provoke the Russians and deliberately designed to keep the war going.
It isn’t even the rantings of a lunatic child. It is designed to prevent peace.
