A Quick Decisive Victory Can Prevent a Wider War
I am beginning to think Russia will lose the war, and her credibility with it, to negotiation. For the third time the Kremlin has taken the negotiation bait. According to the Russian news agency Tass, Russian and Ukrainian delegations will meet at an undisclosed location in Belarus for talks Monday morning. This is odd. The Kremlin had previously concluded that it was pointless negotiating with Ukraine, because Ukraine is a Washington puppet incapable of independent decision.
While the talks are happening, the Europeans will be supplying fighter jets to Ukraine via Poland. This despite the death and destruction Putin warned would come to those who interfered with Russia’s Ukraine operation. Thus, the Kremlin seems to be again cooperating with the Ukraine’s efforts to beef up resistance when Russia needs to quickly win the war.
It is beginning to look like the Kremlin never meant to fight. According to reports, the Russians have only committed 30 percent of the assembled invasion force to the conflict, and apparently the Kremlin is too fearful its troops might endanger civilians to trust them with the heavy weapons that would bring the war to a quick close.
I stress the word, “looks.” We don’t actually know. The Western media is a propaganda mill that never reports t
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