What I'd like to know is not so much why did Putin's Bitch Trump advocate for Ukrainian capitulation (again), but why did even the Russians think for a single moment that no one would notice that they just used Google Translate to translate the Russian "plan" into English as the "proposed compromise?" With no participation or input from Europe or, crucially, Ukraine itself? It isn't really even just proposed capitulation of Ukraine. It's actual, real-time capitulation of the United States of America to a literal 14th rate power. WT -actual- F?
It's strange really, because why would the Russians, or the Americans for that matter, since there's no difference between their positions, even bother? If sane, realistic planning was going on in Moscow they would know that the time to offer real concessions is actually slipping away-- Ukraine has demonstrated the complete ineffectiveness of their air defenses against drone attacks on military and critical infrastructure, and the Russians, despite massive manpower losses, have barely moved the territorial front in over two years. They are running out of money and resources, having spent over half of their once massive gold reserves. Their ability to sell oil at a profit has disappeared, thanks to sanctions and Ukrainian attacks on their refining and transport infrastructure, as well as their ability to transport oil by sea. Their ability to even maintain the higher tech Soviet era weaponry has collapsed, and at this rate they can never win the war outright no matter how long they continue to send meat waves. Their potential allies, excepting North Korea, have mostly just taken a pass. Even Belarus doesn't send soldiers to be cut down en masse. Yet, this is their offer? Essentially, nothing?
Like much of what's going on in the World, and especially in our country, the term shitshow seems to fit better than anything else.
Silence is complicity. Americans who believe in democracy MUST RESIST.
--George Washington, 1783
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