I must admit to being baffled. In all my studies of military history I cannot remember any occasion when one combatant in a war agreed a ceasefire with one of its own allies, without even consulting the other combatant. Talk about the sound of one hand clapping!
Another thing about Mr Putin that I think the Westerners find incomprehensible is that he is honest. In their circles they have never come across such a phenomenon, and they have no idea how to deal with him.
"Enabling Kiev with further military assistance and intel puts the lie to the US’s stated intentions of ending the war and saving lives. It puts the lie to the UK and Europe’s characterization of Russia as an aggressor and Ukraine a free and democratic society just defending itself. It doubles down on folly."
It does all that to people who strive to understand and see clearly, people who can detect honesty. That does not characterise the majority of our population(s), sadly. This "ceasefire" deal is a very nasty trick by the Trump admin to try to capture public sentiment, nothing more.
I agree with your last sentence, Rudey. But Trump is spreading changing intentions as Smoke to hide his true intentions, that will come on an unexpected moment and will be shocking.
Absolutely crazy (and shocking) that the US reversed it's stop on intelligence and military aid to Ukraine. In doing so, Trump and his team exposed themselves as untrustworthy and incapable of operating in good faith.
For goodness' sake, those weapons are being used to kill Russian civilians. Not sure what they expect Russia to do.
The Clowntopians (US) and the Village Idiots Convention (EU) idea of 'negotiations' goes like this: they 'debate' among themselves, come up with some ludicrous terms, and then present them as a yes/no proposition to the other party. They're fucking 🤡🤡🤡 and always will be.
Putin has had many years in power/ western nations do not have this length of time. I think Lavrov mentioned in this interview that talk of the mid-terms are already being discussed.......how can any country deal with this NUTZ situation?
Wise leaders, perhaps they become wise by dealing with never ending conflicts?
I must admit to being baffled. In all my studies of military history I cannot remember any occasion when one combatant in a war agreed a ceasefire with one of its own allies, without even consulting the other combatant. Talk about the sound of one hand clapping!
Another thing about Mr Putin that I think the Westerners find incomprehensible is that he is honest. In their circles they have never come across such a phenomenon, and they have no idea how to deal with him.
"Enabling Kiev with further military assistance and intel puts the lie to the US’s stated intentions of ending the war and saving lives. It puts the lie to the UK and Europe’s characterization of Russia as an aggressor and Ukraine a free and democratic society just defending itself. It doubles down on folly."
It does all that to people who strive to understand and see clearly, people who can detect honesty. That does not characterise the majority of our population(s), sadly. This "ceasefire" deal is a very nasty trick by the Trump admin to try to capture public sentiment, nothing more.
I agree with your last sentence, Rudey. But Trump is spreading changing intentions as Smoke to hide his true intentions, that will come on an unexpected moment and will be shocking.
But i can be wrong on that this time too.
Sander
Absolutely crazy (and shocking) that the US reversed it's stop on intelligence and military aid to Ukraine. In doing so, Trump and his team exposed themselves as untrustworthy and incapable of operating in good faith.
For goodness' sake, those weapons are being used to kill Russian civilians. Not sure what they expect Russia to do.
The Clowntopians (US) and the Village Idiots Convention (EU) idea of 'negotiations' goes like this: they 'debate' among themselves, come up with some ludicrous terms, and then present them as a yes/no proposition to the other party. They're fucking 🤡🤡🤡 and always will be.
Putin has had many years in power/ western nations do not have this length of time. I think Lavrov mentioned in this interview that talk of the mid-terms are already being discussed.......how can any country deal with this NUTZ situation?
Wise leaders, perhaps they become wise by dealing with never ending conflicts?