Putin didn't realize Ukraine started off with 800,000 troops dug in with who knows how many western mercenaries waiting for Russia. Putin was smart to pull back, regroup and come up with a new strategy. NATO continues to believe this is a 50-year war.I don't think Washington demanded this war, but I definitely think they provoked it. It looks like they were so arrogant they thought Russia would just let them walk all over them. I think Jeffrey Sach's commentary on what happened immediately preceding Russia's military operation in February 2022 was gold:
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At the end of 2021, Putin put on the table a last effort to reach a modus operandi with the U.S., in two security agreement drafts, one with Europe and one with the United States. He put the Russia-U.S. draft agreement on the table on Dec. 15, 2021.
Following that, I had an hour-long call with [National Security Advisor] Jake Sullivan in the White House, begging, “Jake, avoid the war. You can avoid the war. All the U.S. has to do is say, ‘NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine.’” And he said to me, “Oh, NATO’s not going to enlarge to Ukraine. Don’t worry about it.”
I said, “Jake, say it publicly.”
“No. No. No. We can’t say it publicly.”
I said, “Jake, you’re going to have a war over something that isn’t even going to happen?”
He said, “Don’t worry, Jeff. There will be no war.”
These are not very bright people. I’m telling you, if I can give you my honest view, they’re not very bright people. They talk to themselves. They don’t talk to anybody else. They play game theory. In noncooperative game theory, you don’t talk to the other side. You just make your strategy. This is the essence of non-cooperative game theory. It’s not negotiation theory. It’s not peacemaking theory. It is unilateral, noncooperative theory, if you know formal game theory.
That’s what they play. That kind of game theory started [in application] at the RAND Corporation. That’s what they still play. In 2019, there’s a paper by RAND, “Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.”
Incredibly, the paper, in the public domain, asks how the U.S. should annoy, antagonize, and weaken Russia. That’s literally the strategy. We’re trying to provoke Russia, trying to make Russia break apart, perhaps have regime change, maybe unrest, maybe an economic crisis.
That’s what you in Europe call your ally. So, there I was with my frustrating phone call with Sullivan, standing out in the freezing cold. I happened to be trying to have a ski day.
“Oh, there’ll be no war, Jeff.”
We know what happened next: the Biden administration refused to negotiate over NATO enlargement. The stupidest idea of NATO is the so-called open-door policy, based on Article 10 of the NATO Treaty (1949). NATO reserves the right to go where it wants, as long as the host government agrees, without any neighbor – such as Russia — having any say whatsoever.
Well, I tell the Mexicans and the Canadians, “Don’t try it.” You know, Trump may want to take over Canada. So, the Canadian government could say to China, “Why don’t you build a military base in Ontario?” I wouldn’t advise it. The U.S. would not say, “Well, it’s an open door. That’s Canada’s and China’s business, not ours.” The U.S. would invade Canada.
Yet grownups, including in Europe, in this Parliament, in NATO, in the European Commission, repeat the absurd mantra that Russia has no say in NATO enlargement. This is nonsense stuff. This is not even baby geopolitics. This is just not thinking at all. So, the Ukraine War escalated in February 2022 when the Biden Administration refused any serious negotiations.
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Full article:
Jeffrey Sachs: The Geopolitics of Peace
The author explains manipulative U.S. post-war foreign policy to European MPs, explodes myths about Ukraine and urges an independent European foreign policy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjcMoDFU1xg&ab_channel=MichaelvonderSchulenburg This is an edited transcript of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’consortiumnews.com
No....that is not what happened......the Russians went in with enough to make a statement....to get a deal....the one that was done in Istanbul....The Russia plan worked like a charm....till the Imperial Empire ordered Z to not sign it....and he followed his orders.
My source could be wrong but he said Ukraine had 800,000 troops with who knows how many western mercenaries dug in. It took Russia almost 3 years to turn them into hamburger.
consortiumnews.com
War profiteers are making a fortune and plan on keeping this proxy war going for aa long as they can. The problem is Bibi demands they switch their attention to Iran which has more museums and oil than Iraq.
Looting Iraq's museums was a black ops planned and implemented by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad. It played a part in the reason for a ground invasion. US military would be ordered away. Many books and articles have been written on this subject.
I have a busy day so it will take me a while. You can do a search and read through some of the articles to see if you find anything disputing the CIA involvement.
Several of my guys think that Washington is going to leave Ukraine for Europe, and go after China....which is even more insane than going after Iran.