Peace process? C’mon! What, like the ‘peace process’ we’ve been hearing about in Israel/Palestine for the last 30 years plus? America does not want peace in Ukraine, and in this or any conceivable parallel universe, couldn’t get it past a hostile congress or the security state, even if it did. What America wants is to a) freeze the contact line to prevent further Russian gains, b) allow Ukraine a much needed time-out, c) re supply Ukraine with much needed military supplies, and d) allow America to re-focus on China, and maybe roll the dice with Iran. I hope & pray that the Russian Federation is as strong as I believe it to be, and that President Putin is as steadfast as I hope him to be. If it is, and if he is, then Russia’s security will be assured, and the world will be a much better place in 10 years than would otherwise be the case with Kellogg style ‘peace’.
It's not Zelensky doing the manipulating. That puppet comedian couldn't manipulate his way out of a cardboard box. It's the American MIC doing the manipulating.
It's a sad thing to say, but maybe the gullible Russians should just stop trusting American and Western politicians? The fact that Trump did not openly condemn the Ukrainians for not observing the energy truce should already have convinced the Russians that, unfortunately, the new US president is cut from the same cloth as his predecessors.
It's not a sad thing to say; it's an absolutely necessary thing to say: Stop trusting the Americans. How many times does Russia have to be played, lied to, and betrayed before it accepts the obvious? The United States has been an unreliable actor on the world stage since before the ink was dry on the constitution.
Trump’s “peace” was always a ruse. I hope Putin sees this. I hope no leader or nation ever trusts any American politician on anything. Only then can the world thrive.
I will stop the war in 24 hours and be a peace president said Trump. 😂😂Now 100 days later he have only manage to escalate the war. Not only in Ukraine but also in Gaza because he support the terror state Israel and the psychopath Netanyahu in their illegal war and genocide He also bomb Yemen Trump is like a lose missile and totally out of control A warmonger like all they other US presidents
If Zelensky designates visiting dignitaries in Moscow as legitimized targets he is making a mistake. Ukraine has a constant mandatory flow of foreign leaders who enter the country at certain locations and usually travel with train. Then they arrive in Central Kiev, where they are impressed, wined and dined by the fearless leader and nobody bothers them as they run around like tourists. This can all change and Ukraine has more to lose in the process.
I agree this is so disappointing. I hear many people discussing that Trump is turning out to be another tool of the deep state.
I don't know if that is true or not.
His policies are not policies that benefit the globalists, they don't benefit Wall Street, they benefit Main Street and hard working Americans.
They are policies to protect national security, to re-industrialize America so good middle class jobs will be available. His policies are to ditch net-zero which is a means of destroying an economy quickly. He has policies to respond to civil rights violations at college campuses when radical Islamists attempt to interfere with the civil rights of Jews.
I think Americans are by and large not interested in going to war. His efforts to make peace were very welcome by a lot of Americans. The only people who want war benefit and make profits from either weapons sales or rebuilding a country after they have destroyed it, and claiming natural resource rights. This latter was apparently the motivation for provoking Putin to war to protect the Russian speaking people of Eastern Ukraine who were massacred by Nazis.
Trump has disappointed to some degree on Israel, and Witkoff was involved with both disappointments. Witkoff is a shill for Qatar, who paid off a big debt of his. The appointment of Witkoff was a disappointment in itself.
I do not know what has led Trump to back away from his approach to working with Putin for a settlement. It is possible that at this time the CIA and Intel community in the US is not in his control, and perhaps he cannot get them to stop funding and pursuing this Ukraine war. Congress is also bought and paid for by globalist neocons who benefit from war. So Congress benefits from war.
All of these forces are arrayed against Trump, the CIA working with EU and UK to keep the pressure on Putin, and frankly it is disgusting to me as an American. I can really understand other countries hating us for the disgusting and destructive actions of the CIA alone. The two Presidents who went to battle against the CIA were done away with: JFK and Nixon. Nixon lived, he just lost his Presidency.
It's hard to imagine anyone going against them because they have "six ways from Sunday" of getting to you if they want you dead.
Trump has been willing to go without a salary and work hours and hours each day to Make America Great Again, but I can't say as I blame him for not wanting to die.
Yes, it is just very disappointing.
thank you Mr. Korybko for being so articulate in your analysis and filling us in on the back story.
I'll give you one example: Trump attacked Syria twice on thebasis of patheticlies, and tried twice to leave. Trump cucked out both times, lured by the hope of looting (practically nonexistent oil).
Sie sind schon an einem Krieg interessiert und der soll in Deutschland statt finden. Die USA gibt sich Defcon 3, sie rechnen damit daß es uns trifft und sie nicht, wie immer.. und wir sind schon bei Defcon 2 . Das Spiel muß umgedreht werden...
The Russian leadership is naive to expect the West to do anything out of the goodness of its heart. Reward and punishment are the only language that the sociopaths who rule the West understand.
Im not sure what people mean by Russia being “gullible”. If Putin rebuked Trumps overtures for peace outright, it would have given Trump every reason to arm and support Ukraine to a maximalist degree. There’s a thousand moving pieces and a million things we don’t even know about; hence why geopolitics is chess and not checkers.
Trump and Zelensky deserve each other. I don't know how anyone can be surprised that Trump has been silent. Trump is in this facade of a peace process because he's the one tapping Putin along.
I don't know why Putin's even continuing to waste Russia's energy on this horrible man. Talks should've stopped immediately after the last Russian General was assassinated. Trump bears responsibility for that because he's the President.
Trump doesn't care about anything once he can't get his way. I'm not saying that he cared about Ukraine before either. I'm saying that Trump cares about something only if it's useful to him. He spent 4 years as president and never offered any criticisms of the war. He expanded the military equipment shipped to Ukraine.
Putin needs to wake up and stop wasting his intellectual abilities, which far exceed those of Trump, on this vain man.
I don't think Trump needed that miserable tiny man in Kiev to teach that politics is a minefield and most of the politicians liars. Trump knows that first-hand. I think all Trump sees is business opportunities, real estate development --- not human beings and lives and reality. Gaza is a stain on the USA, it will never wash out. And Ukraine is the other one. We the USA demonstrate graphicallly with these wars that we don't really give a damn about other countries or people, or even respect them and their own sovereignty. I guess it was too much to expect Trump to knee the war industries in the groin. I wonder how much investment HE has in them.
The US and Ukraine have been offering a 30 day ceasefire for weeks now. RUSSIA said no. And I'm supposed to be upset that Ukraine won't agree to a 3 day ceasefire that Putin is solely offering, not to save lives, but so he doesn't get embarrassed during his big fancy parade.
This is laughable. Common man, I've read your stuff for a while now, you're smarter than this
I am so disappionted. How can someone promises to "Make America great again"? With such dishonest, cowboy diplomacy? I don't remember America being ever great. America belongs to the West, and my Slavic country suffered so much from the western arrogance and their "boots on the ground". For centuries.
With all due respect, it should have been obvious to everyone that this was where things would end up.
Unfortunately, the Russian leadership really do not want this war, and are unbelievably naive with regards to the West. No, this is not a lovers' spat that the West will get over.
The West wants blood, and Russian dithering and indecision have caused the West to smell blood.
The War of attrition is a success in progress so far.
That should not be an indication that The Big P cannot change the strategy now should US decide to send meaningful weapons to Ukronazistan.
If Big P went for shock and awe from the get going, it is questionable if war on sanctions would've been a success (as it is now) and it would've been a far greater risk for Ruskies.
So letting Russian munitions get wasted, Russian infrastructure attacked, Russians getting killed and Russian enemies emboldened by Russian weakness is a strategy....
Stop kidding yourself. And tell us about the western sanctions and escalation following the war with Georgia. It's just more cope.
It looks as if Ruskies learned from Georgia operation and applied experience on Ukronazistan. The world was a much different place then.
.
There is no copium.
SMO can be lost only by a serious gross mistake.
It is ungrateful to compare hypothetical counts of lives lost, it is quite arguable that lives lost would be by far greater if Ruskies employed tactics which they could not sustain for years to come (i.e. shock and awe).
What do you mean by “letting”? Russia is in a war, these things are going to happen. Grinding Ukraine down slowly is a much better plan than going to war with NATO directly.
Russians don't need munitions except for the wars in which they are in. Point is, they and NK can produce them much cheaper than the West.
We know that attrition strategy is a net positive for Russia because the attrition of France, UK and USA in WW1 has militated against them proceeding boldly during the first 7 years of the 3rd Reich. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are quaking in their boots. We know it from recent Latvian decision to bestow military honors on Herberts Cukurs 60 years after his execution. They wouldn't do it, if they wouldn't feel they are going to feel the heat soon.
We also see that the Israeli attrition strategy in Gaza and Lebanon works against Hezbollah re-engaging. Cycle of violence no longer!
Peace process? C’mon! What, like the ‘peace process’ we’ve been hearing about in Israel/Palestine for the last 30 years plus? America does not want peace in Ukraine, and in this or any conceivable parallel universe, couldn’t get it past a hostile congress or the security state, even if it did. What America wants is to a) freeze the contact line to prevent further Russian gains, b) allow Ukraine a much needed time-out, c) re supply Ukraine with much needed military supplies, and d) allow America to re-focus on China, and maybe roll the dice with Iran. I hope & pray that the Russian Federation is as strong as I believe it to be, and that President Putin is as steadfast as I hope him to be. If it is, and if he is, then Russia’s security will be assured, and the world will be a much better place in 10 years than would otherwise be the case with Kellogg style ‘peace’.
It's not Zelensky doing the manipulating. That puppet comedian couldn't manipulate his way out of a cardboard box. It's the American MIC doing the manipulating.
The grift must flow.
It's a sad thing to say, but maybe the gullible Russians should just stop trusting American and Western politicians? The fact that Trump did not openly condemn the Ukrainians for not observing the energy truce should already have convinced the Russians that, unfortunately, the new US president is cut from the same cloth as his predecessors.
It's not a sad thing to say; it's an absolutely necessary thing to say: Stop trusting the Americans. How many times does Russia have to be played, lied to, and betrayed before it accepts the obvious? The United States has been an unreliable actor on the world stage since before the ink was dry on the constitution.
Trump’s “peace” was always a ruse. I hope Putin sees this. I hope no leader or nation ever trusts any American politician on anything. Only then can the world thrive.
The only thing you can trust American leaders to do is start proxy wars against genuinely sovereign states
I will stop the war in 24 hours and be a peace president said Trump. 😂😂Now 100 days later he have only manage to escalate the war. Not only in Ukraine but also in Gaza because he support the terror state Israel and the psychopath Netanyahu in their illegal war and genocide He also bomb Yemen Trump is like a lose missile and totally out of control A warmonger like all they other US presidents
I had it figured out from the get-go, even as the Russian leadership continued to act like a happy puppy towards Trump.
If Zelensky designates visiting dignitaries in Moscow as legitimized targets he is making a mistake. Ukraine has a constant mandatory flow of foreign leaders who enter the country at certain locations and usually travel with train. Then they arrive in Central Kiev, where they are impressed, wined and dined by the fearless leader and nobody bothers them as they run around like tourists. This can all change and Ukraine has more to lose in the process.
I agree this is so disappointing. I hear many people discussing that Trump is turning out to be another tool of the deep state.
I don't know if that is true or not.
His policies are not policies that benefit the globalists, they don't benefit Wall Street, they benefit Main Street and hard working Americans.
They are policies to protect national security, to re-industrialize America so good middle class jobs will be available. His policies are to ditch net-zero which is a means of destroying an economy quickly. He has policies to respond to civil rights violations at college campuses when radical Islamists attempt to interfere with the civil rights of Jews.
I think Americans are by and large not interested in going to war. His efforts to make peace were very welcome by a lot of Americans. The only people who want war benefit and make profits from either weapons sales or rebuilding a country after they have destroyed it, and claiming natural resource rights. This latter was apparently the motivation for provoking Putin to war to protect the Russian speaking people of Eastern Ukraine who were massacred by Nazis.
Trump has disappointed to some degree on Israel, and Witkoff was involved with both disappointments. Witkoff is a shill for Qatar, who paid off a big debt of his. The appointment of Witkoff was a disappointment in itself.
I do not know what has led Trump to back away from his approach to working with Putin for a settlement. It is possible that at this time the CIA and Intel community in the US is not in his control, and perhaps he cannot get them to stop funding and pursuing this Ukraine war. Congress is also bought and paid for by globalist neocons who benefit from war. So Congress benefits from war.
All of these forces are arrayed against Trump, the CIA working with EU and UK to keep the pressure on Putin, and frankly it is disgusting to me as an American. I can really understand other countries hating us for the disgusting and destructive actions of the CIA alone. The two Presidents who went to battle against the CIA were done away with: JFK and Nixon. Nixon lived, he just lost his Presidency.
It's hard to imagine anyone going against them because they have "six ways from Sunday" of getting to you if they want you dead.
Trump has been willing to go without a salary and work hours and hours each day to Make America Great Again, but I can't say as I blame him for not wanting to die.
Yes, it is just very disappointing.
thank you Mr. Korybko for being so articulate in your analysis and filling us in on the back story.
No need to make excuses for Trump. It was obvious about two weeks into his first term that he is weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
Oh really that obvious? Hmmm. Tell me what you base that judgment on.
I'll give you one example: Trump attacked Syria twice on thebasis of patheticlies, and tried twice to leave. Trump cucked out both times, lured by the hope of looting (practically nonexistent oil).
You already said in a comment above. Are you trying to convince yourself of that fact?
Hardly, but the point keeps coming up.
Sie sind schon an einem Krieg interessiert und der soll in Deutschland statt finden. Die USA gibt sich Defcon 3, sie rechnen damit daß es uns trifft und sie nicht, wie immer.. und wir sind schon bei Defcon 2 . Das Spiel muß umgedreht werden...
Trump is weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
The Russian leadership is naive to expect the West to do anything out of the goodness of its heart. Reward and punishment are the only language that the sociopaths who rule the West understand.
Yes, and he's dumb like a fox, too. So you just keep thinking he's stupid. That will suit him fine.
Of course, of course this is eleven dimensional chess, lol, you sweet summer child.
Trump in a sulk because Russia insists on achieving its goals rather than agree another conflict freeze to let Ukraine avoid certain defeat.
It is US war against Russia - Zelensky clown is just the puppet
Im not sure what people mean by Russia being “gullible”. If Putin rebuked Trumps overtures for peace outright, it would have given Trump every reason to arm and support Ukraine to a maximalist degree. There’s a thousand moving pieces and a million things we don’t even know about; hence why geopolitics is chess and not checkers.
Trump and Zelensky deserve each other. I don't know how anyone can be surprised that Trump has been silent. Trump is in this facade of a peace process because he's the one tapping Putin along.
I don't know why Putin's even continuing to waste Russia's energy on this horrible man. Talks should've stopped immediately after the last Russian General was assassinated. Trump bears responsibility for that because he's the President.
Trump doesn't care about anything once he can't get his way. I'm not saying that he cared about Ukraine before either. I'm saying that Trump cares about something only if it's useful to him. He spent 4 years as president and never offered any criticisms of the war. He expanded the military equipment shipped to Ukraine.
Putin needs to wake up and stop wasting his intellectual abilities, which far exceed those of Trump, on this vain man.
I don't think Trump needed that miserable tiny man in Kiev to teach that politics is a minefield and most of the politicians liars. Trump knows that first-hand. I think all Trump sees is business opportunities, real estate development --- not human beings and lives and reality. Gaza is a stain on the USA, it will never wash out. And Ukraine is the other one. We the USA demonstrate graphicallly with these wars that we don't really give a damn about other countries or people, or even respect them and their own sovereignty. I guess it was too much to expect Trump to knee the war industries in the groin. I wonder how much investment HE has in them.
The US and Ukraine have been offering a 30 day ceasefire for weeks now. RUSSIA said no. And I'm supposed to be upset that Ukraine won't agree to a 3 day ceasefire that Putin is solely offering, not to save lives, but so he doesn't get embarrassed during his big fancy parade.
This is laughable. Common man, I've read your stuff for a while now, you're smarter than this
I am so disappionted. How can someone promises to "Make America great again"? With such dishonest, cowboy diplomacy? I don't remember America being ever great. America belongs to the West, and my Slavic country suffered so much from the western arrogance and their "boots on the ground". For centuries.
With all due respect, it should have been obvious to everyone that this was where things would end up.
Unfortunately, the Russian leadership really do not want this war, and are unbelievably naive with regards to the West. No, this is not a lovers' spat that the West will get over.
The West wants blood, and Russian dithering and indecision have caused the West to smell blood.
I used to be in the same "indecisiveness" boat.
The War of attrition is a success in progress so far.
That should not be an indication that The Big P cannot change the strategy now should US decide to send meaningful weapons to Ukronazistan.
If Big P went for shock and awe from the get going, it is questionable if war on sanctions would've been a success (as it is now) and it would've been a far greater risk for Ruskies.
So letting Russian munitions get wasted, Russian infrastructure attacked, Russians getting killed and Russian enemies emboldened by Russian weakness is a strategy....
Stop kidding yourself. And tell us about the western sanctions and escalation following the war with Georgia. It's just more cope.
Not every war is linear and vertical.
It makes it impossible to predict the next move.
.
It looks as if Ruskies learned from Georgia operation and applied experience on Ukronazistan. The world was a much different place then.
.
There is no copium.
SMO can be lost only by a serious gross mistake.
It is ungrateful to compare hypothetical counts of lives lost, it is quite arguable that lives lost would be by far greater if Ruskies employed tactics which they could not sustain for years to come (i.e. shock and awe).
Keep telling yourself that. Every day Russia dithers, WWIII comes closer.
As I said… I was in the same boat as you…
Not any more.
Actually if nato did not dither, we'd have a ww3.
Luckily they did. Not by a chance.
What do you mean by “letting”? Russia is in a war, these things are going to happen. Grinding Ukraine down slowly is a much better plan than going to war with NATO directly.
So you are saying that western missiles are hitting Russia because Russia is impotent?
Russians don't need munitions except for the wars in which they are in. Point is, they and NK can produce them much cheaper than the West.
We know that attrition strategy is a net positive for Russia because the attrition of France, UK and USA in WW1 has militated against them proceeding boldly during the first 7 years of the 3rd Reich. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are quaking in their boots. We know it from recent Latvian decision to bestow military honors on Herberts Cukurs 60 years after his execution. They wouldn't do it, if they wouldn't feel they are going to feel the heat soon.
We also see that the Israeli attrition strategy in Gaza and Lebanon works against Hezbollah re-engaging. Cycle of violence no longer!
We've been hearing for three years that the West is collapsing, they are out or everything from cat treats to burrito coverings.
Yet they only escalate.
Don’t worry, neither Ukraine and Zelensky will be around soon.
Suck it in and deal with it🤣