Read between the lines

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MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed Moscow’s readiness for negotiations with Ukraine without any preconditions, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, replying to a question on the matter.

"During yesterday’s conversation with Trump’s envoy Witkoff, Vladimir Putin reiterated that the Russian side is ready to resume the negotiation process with Ukraine without any preconditions," the Kremlin official said.

Peskov reiterated that earlier, "Putin repeatedly stated this."

The West of course doesn’t get this at all. Negotiations without preconditions just means talking. About anything.Like what you had for lunch. No preconditions right?

Russia has already stated its conditions for an agreement, which Ukraine has completely rejected and which the Americans don’t support. Actually, they can’t support the Russians because it would de facto mean accepting they have lost the proxy war they set up so many years ago, adding to that long, long list of military defeats.

Today, the Russians took back the last village in Ukraine. Official Ukrainian losses are over 75,000 — which means probably as many as 95.000 since the Russians always understate — they count only intact dead bodies— and a lot of the bodies are in pieces.

In Sumy, the Russians are fighting in five areas. More small victories.

So why should the Russians play nice when they are assured of winning with a successful long-term solution with minimal casualties and the costs spread over time, if they are patient?

After meeting with the Green Gobshite (dressed in black this time) in the Vatican, Trump said he wasn’t sure if Putin really wanted the war to end and that that bothered him.

The Western media took this as Trump talking tough to Putin - but he was just posturing for the American media to look strong as opposed to fat and flabby.

Of course Putin is not in any hurry to end the SMO,

Why would he want to do that before he has broken the back of the Ukrainian military and also the hold of the rightwing Ukrainian media over the public, which now faces the contradictions and dissonance between what the Media tells them and what they know from painful experience up close — the conscription squads, the cemeteries and rumors, rumors, rumors?

There will be tipping point, probably this year—then either surrender or revolution - and maybe a Russia-friendly government wanting to take back control of the country from the US and Europe which are eager to rape and pillage its resources.

All that is a long process.

And the Russians will keep Trump doing the only thing he is really good at — talking, talking, talking….. And in the meantime, they are polite, professional and uphold the norms of international diplomacy, winning the trust of the global majority.

That’s what Chappy thinks anyway,

Article #3.

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