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Top US generals are now making this clear to Washington. Principal arguments: the USA has a lot more to lose than it has to gain; Ukraine, its population now reduced to the size of the Netherlands, is no longer a credible winning force; by the time the west can send in new equipment, in which Ukrainians have been suitably trained to use, Russia will have won; the losses sustained so far, over 200,000 , mostly Ukrainian, counsel against further waste of life; a western victory, unachievable anyway, would be pyrrhic – a united Russia is the west’s best buffer against China or, if you prefer, the “Mongol hordes;” and, as the IMF now demonstrates, the Russian economy is set to grow while the country is more together than ever (80% of Russians are ethnically Russian) and its President Vladimir Putin is as popular as ever, far more so than any NATO leader; while NATO itself is increasingly weak and split.
Mercouris today notes that Prigozhin is saying that Bakhmut is not yet encircled – a pretty good sign that it will be, very soon. He reports that in Kiev the position of the defense minister is looking very vulnerable and also that the house of oligarch Kolomoiskiy has been seized. Increasingly it seems that Zelenskiy sponsors and supporters are being picked off and that Zelenskiy is being isolated, probably soon to be replaced by someone who will listen more carefully to what Washington wants, as opposed to playing superhero at the expense of 157,000 Ukrainian lives, and still counting.
Washington is quickly coming to realize, in the light of depressingly realistic conclusions from RAND, CSIS and the IMF (the financial elites are ticked off about being excluded from neocon conversations and decisions concerning sanctions and seizure of the asserts of the Russian Central Bank), that it has to negotiate and to negotiate on Russian terms before it runs out of weapons and exhausts its capacity for appearing to be a credible adversary to China. All it is doing right now is consuming its own wealth as Russia grows stronger. America’s greatest threat is the stubbornness of Neocon Biden, generator of and buddy to the 2014 coup regime of what may soon become rump Ukraine.
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A March 29 article on America’s involvement in the war in Ukraine in The New York Times by Adam Entous “reveals that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.” “Understood” is a euphemism. It means the American and global public were lied to.
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Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has admitted that his “hatred” of Russians is one of the driving forces propelling him to “keep going” in the conflict against Moscow.
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In February, IPD USA organized a symposium where leading foreign policy experts examined how the Trump administration could broker a diplomatic settlement between Russia and Ukraine. Since then, President Trump has actively pushed to bring the Ukraine war to an end, resulting in some positive developments. While fighting continues, both Russia and Ukraine have verbally agreed to an immediate ceasefire. More significantly, there is now a real prospect for normalized U.S.-Russia relations, especially after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed the idea of a U.S. security guarantee or NATO membership for Ukraine. This essential step, later affirmed by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, removed a major source of tension between Russia and the West.
