U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms. Blinken said in Finland on Friday that heeding calls from Russia and others for negotiations now would result in a false “Potemkin peace” that wouldn’t secure Ukraine’s sovereignty and or enhance European security. He argued that a cease-fire allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin “to consolidate control over the territory he has seized, and rest, rearm, and re-attack" would not bring "a just and lasting peace.” Kyiv has given confusing signals about whether a counteroffensive is coming or already underway.
“We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression,” Blinken said in a speech in Finland, which recently became NATO’s newest member and shares a long border with Russia.
Most of the people supporting the western ‘moral cause’ for Ukraine, have ‘zero’ understanding of the actual issue. They only know what the MSM in this country tells them. Until that changes, there’s no hope for a productive conversation. They think the conflict began at the moment the Russian incursion happened. If you tell them to justify Ukraine’s ignoring of the Minsk Accords, they have no answer and won’t reply, because they don’t know what it is. And in the midst of all that, Ukraine was shelling and murdering the Russian speaking population in Donbass and Luhansk, all the while Russia was waiting for them to implement the agreement and cease it’s military actions. You heard ‘zip’ about it from the western media. And you hear ‘zip’ about it from the people raking Russia over the coals in this thread.
Russia essentially wanted the Ukraine to become a State to Russia, similar to what Japan’s relationship to the US became, after World War 2. And it was ‘signed off on’, by Ukraine and other European states. The US encouraged Ukraine to ignore it and thumb it’s nose at Russia, while they militarily armed Ukraine, flowing in weapons, and building it up to the point where it could then safely violate the terms agreed upon and become yet another US client state, on Russia’s doorstep. The good old, ‘hold the baby in your arms and then hit your ex-husband while he attacks back, trying to rescue the situation’, and then call him the villain who’s abusing the baby.
Most of the people supporting the western ‘moral cause’ for Ukraine, have ‘zero’ understanding of the actual issue. They only know what the MSM in this country tells them. Until that changes, there’s no hope for a productive conversation. They think the conflict began at the moment the Russian incursion happened. If you tell them to justify Ukraine’s ignoring of the Minsk Accords, they have no answer and won’t reply, because they don’t know what it is. And in the midst of all that, Ukraine was shelling and murdering the Russian speaking population in Donbass and Luhansk, all the while Russia was waiting for them to implement the agreement and cease it’s military actions. You heard ‘zip’ about it from the western media. And you hear ‘zip’ about it from the people raking Russia over the coals in this thread.
Russia essentially wanted the Ukraine to become a State to Russia, similar to what Japan’s relationship to the US became, after World War 2. And it was ‘signed off on’, by Ukraine and other European states. The US encouraged Ukraine to ignore it and thumb it’s nose at Russia, while they militarily armed Ukraine, flowing in weapons, and building it up to the point where it could then safely violate the terms agreed upon and become yet another US client state, on Russia’s doorstep. The good old, ‘hold the baby in your arms and then hit your ex-husband while he attacks back, trying to rescue the situation’, and then call him the villain who’s abusing the baby.