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Easy to answer, you cherry pick what favours Ruzzia, ignore the inflation (even the official is high), the interest rates on the Ruble, the drop in oil price... And even in the front, while Ruzzia is "slowly grinding" they oil facilities and some military installations are being "quickly enough being destroyed".
NATO would not send soldiers to an active front to avoid escalation and other political issues. However, peacekeepers on an inactive front... completely different.
And today, Poland has closed a Ruzzian consulate... you would ask why? Well, apparently Ruzzia arsoned a large commercial centre there - or so does Poland thinks.
The quality of your posts have really gone down lately. I'm not saying that Russia doesn't have it's own problems, but by almost every measure Ukraine has exponentially more problems and they're more severe. So once again, the question is not if Russia can sustain this until the end of the Universe, but rather if Russia can outlast Ukraine. And the answer to that becomes more and more obvious with every day.
Are you really not aware that for peacekeepers to be present both sides need to agree and approve them first. If a third country sends in its troops to help defend another country without approval of both sides, then they're not called peacekeepers but they de facto become a party to the conflict. And read up on NATO's article 5 to see if it would even apply in such cases. This really starting to feel like you're grasping for any straw just to make something up to keep Ukrainians spilling their blood just for a day longer. I'm really starting to question who's interests you are really serving here, because it surely doesn't feel like you care for what's best for Ukraine, instead you're just shoveling hope to them regardless how improbable it might be
That's so good, the way you say it. We realized this about paxmao ages ago, but you say it so well.
But don't really blame him. He's scared to death of Oreshnik. And probably others of the UK are, as well. Like all the leaders and especially Starmer.
This is me very worried about your evaluation of "the quality of my posts".
And now, to the Istambul conference. Putin has sent a delegation that has no real power to decide anything. They will sit in front of a similar Ukrainian delegation - obviously Zelensky is not going to meet with some "aidee" and Putin decided not to attend.
The result of this will be nothing, other than some money spent in travels, accomodation and the like.
Trump is starting to look powerless and that might just be the right incentive to get him to the Ruzzian Diplomacy advanced level and start realising that Ruzzia cannot be apeased, needs to be stopped and if possible pushed back.