Agreed, and it's personally disappointing to me, but I still do my best to analyze what Russia wants, why, and the risks involved.
I consider myself a cynic, at least much more so than most "Non-Russian Pro-Russians" (NRPRs) in the Alt-Media Community (AMC), but even I'm surprised by this news.
In my opinion, Russia is thinking too much about Western elite perceptions (and via the lens of wishful thinking at that!) at the expense of public opinion in the Global South.
I'm unsure that the latter would react positively to yet another "goodwill gesture" coming from Russia, one which might inevitably end up not having achieved anything tangible at all.
And therefore, I would speculate that the West do not want any binding and enforceable agreement. Instead, the West want Ukraine to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian. Only Ukrainian people can take the decisive action against the West wishes. Russia, at best, can only slowly grind down Ukraine military then spend another 3 years in pacification and 10 years in reconstruction. Personally, I do not expect the Ukraine people as a whole to make the right decision, for various reasons. In any way, there is no room for free will in Ukraine.
This is so sad (that the opportunity was missed). Westerners do not understand that this is a civil war, almost an intra-family war. How many, half?, of Urkanians are of Russian nationality?
Putin doe not want tonstarve his cousins. He wants them to prosper. He doesn't want to sell grain that supports the Chinese empire. He wants to keep it in the family.
After the CIA/US/NATO planned and orchestrated Kursk incursion, Russia will no longer negotiate with the Empire of Lies. Russia was being pressured by nations from the Global Majority to negotiate with the Nazi Kiev regime (which in reality means Washington DC) but after the US invaded Russia (Ukraine is ordered by their master on everything) committing a genocide of civilians in Kursk including murdering a pregnant mother at point blank range (2 meters) the only endpoint now is complete capitulation of the Nazi Kiev regime. The pressure from the Global Majority for Russia to negotiate is now over.
"...neither of them [ever] had any intention of making good on their promises..."
No! You don't say?!
"...Russia’s supporters should therefore brace themselves for this"
I heard him on the radio earlier, saying progress along the front in Donbas was no longer being measured in meters per day, as it had been before the Americans called for the Ukrainians to put the last of their eggs into the 'Kursk (Nuclear!) Invasion' basket. Hopefully, Russia will secure all of the new territories, and obviously chase the Americans out of Russia itself, before entertaining any notions of negotiations with terrorists and their representatives, so far past any legal justification they might have used as 'elected representatives'. Personally, I don't think the Russians should entertain negotiations with the Americans until all of the Ukraine has been secured, at least up to the Dnepr.
What a shame to lose Odessa, but I understand the Ukraine is inviable as a rump state without it, and anything more or less than a viable rump state would eventually only lead to the Ukraine's return to the position from which the Americans were able to control it as it was before 2014.
Of course, there's nothing to guarantee the Americans won't simply use the new-and-improved rump state Ukraine as NATO bulkhead.
This is a mistake.
I'm sure Putin is right in concluding the world has been changed to such an extent by the American aggression that started this war, so they may not return to where they were before doing so. I'm sure that's right, but still... I can't feel comfortable with Russia not doing more to secure itself.
I know what these people are like. I've lived with them, grown up with them; and I've said it before: 'If you've wrestled a vampire to ground to drive a stake through its heart, you don't get up, dust yourself off, help it up, offer it your hand to shake and say, 'Best two of three?'!
It is abundantly obvious that Russia is seeking a Minsk-3.
Agreed, and it's personally disappointing to me, but I still do my best to analyze what Russia wants, why, and the risks involved.
I consider myself a cynic, at least much more so than most "Non-Russian Pro-Russians" (NRPRs) in the Alt-Media Community (AMC), but even I'm surprised by this news.
In my opinion, Russia is thinking too much about Western elite perceptions (and via the lens of wishful thinking at that!) at the expense of public opinion in the Global South.
I'm unsure that the latter would react positively to yet another "goodwill gesture" coming from Russia, one which might inevitably end up not having achieved anything tangible at all.
And therefore, I would speculate that the West do not want any binding and enforceable agreement. Instead, the West want Ukraine to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian. Only Ukrainian people can take the decisive action against the West wishes. Russia, at best, can only slowly grind down Ukraine military then spend another 3 years in pacification and 10 years in reconstruction. Personally, I do not expect the Ukraine people as a whole to make the right decision, for various reasons. In any way, there is no room for free will in Ukraine.
Fact is, the West would immediately break any Minsk-3.
This is so sad (that the opportunity was missed). Westerners do not understand that this is a civil war, almost an intra-family war. How many, half?, of Urkanians are of Russian nationality?
Putin doe not want tonstarve his cousins. He wants them to prosper. He doesn't want to sell grain that supports the Chinese empire. He wants to keep it in the family.
Nobody in Washington, Brussels or Kiev cares in the least. Rather, they see Russian reluctance as contemptible weakness.
Past tense
After the CIA/US/NATO planned and orchestrated Kursk incursion, Russia will no longer negotiate with the Empire of Lies. Russia was being pressured by nations from the Global Majority to negotiate with the Nazi Kiev regime (which in reality means Washington DC) but after the US invaded Russia (Ukraine is ordered by their master on everything) committing a genocide of civilians in Kursk including murdering a pregnant mother at point blank range (2 meters) the only endpoint now is complete capitulation of the Nazi Kiev regime. The pressure from the Global Majority for Russia to negotiate is now over.
"...neither of them [ever] had any intention of making good on their promises..."
No! You don't say?!
"...Russia’s supporters should therefore brace themselves for this"
I heard him on the radio earlier, saying progress along the front in Donbas was no longer being measured in meters per day, as it had been before the Americans called for the Ukrainians to put the last of their eggs into the 'Kursk (Nuclear!) Invasion' basket. Hopefully, Russia will secure all of the new territories, and obviously chase the Americans out of Russia itself, before entertaining any notions of negotiations with terrorists and their representatives, so far past any legal justification they might have used as 'elected representatives'. Personally, I don't think the Russians should entertain negotiations with the Americans until all of the Ukraine has been secured, at least up to the Dnepr.
What a shame to lose Odessa, but I understand the Ukraine is inviable as a rump state without it, and anything more or less than a viable rump state would eventually only lead to the Ukraine's return to the position from which the Americans were able to control it as it was before 2014.
Of course, there's nothing to guarantee the Americans won't simply use the new-and-improved rump state Ukraine as NATO bulkhead.
This is a mistake.
I'm sure Putin is right in concluding the world has been changed to such an extent by the American aggression that started this war, so they may not return to where they were before doing so. I'm sure that's right, but still... I can't feel comfortable with Russia not doing more to secure itself.
I know what these people are like. I've lived with them, grown up with them; and I've said it before: 'If you've wrestled a vampire to ground to drive a stake through its heart, you don't get up, dust yourself off, help it up, offer it your hand to shake and say, 'Best two of three?'!