NATO planned to use its proxy to conduit a long war, with the goal of exhausting Russia and knocking it out from the ranks of great powers

The Russian army’s defeat of Ukrainian troops besieging the city of Donetsk is nearly complete, ending Kiev’s 10-year effort to destroy the city and wipe out its defiant defenders.

President Zelensky’s latest suggestions for how to end the fighting in Ukraine are not yet the basis for a peace settlement, but they contain some hopeful pointers towards one. They should form the starting point of the incoming Trump administration’s negotiations with both Moscow and Kyiv.

The damage assessments of yesterday’s November 28 electric war strikes against targets across the Ukraine spell the countrywide collapse of electricity supply before January 20, when the new Trump Administration will take office.

Russian forces are closing in on two strongholds. The fall of the cities could pave the way for a takeover of the southern part of the Donetsk region, analysts said.

He may have rallied Ukraine against Russia, but war-weariness and army corruption rows have hurt his image and most voters would prefer he not seek a second term

“The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burned things with the firemen and the sun burned Time, that meant that everything burned!” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Desertion is starving the Ukrainian army of desperately needed manpower and crippling its battle plans at a crucial time in its war with Russia, which could put Kyiv at a clear disadvantage in future ceasefire talks.

Ukraine could never “win”. But we wanted to play. So, we vetoed peace deals, killed hundreds of thousands, wasted untold billions, and risked — and continue to risk — a world-ending nuclear war.

Professor Glenn Diesen