whatever russia wanted, it is hard to not conclude the US did everything possible to provoke this. once it started, they went nuclear with the economic sanctions right out of the gate. that makes any negotiated settlement much less likely.
on top of that, Z does his show every day, demands the impossible in peace talks, and berates the world for not starting world war III.
The absence of any calls for talks by the US government says a great deal. they intend to be in a hot war in ukraine, and don’t plan to let anything stop them.
whatever their angle is, it includes solving the midterm problem too. given how unpopular the administration is almost certain to be no matter what come november, that is very worrisome.
Well I won’t say just the US, though of course we’ve watched them since 2014 in the Miadan and before “manipulate” Ukraine throughout the past 7 yrs....Trump pretty much dropped Ukraine but that doesn’t mean the Demrat party wasn’t there doing their work ......
..... we know Obamas people never left Washington and both Obamas and Hillarys people continued to travel abroad visiting nation leaders. ...therefore the Europeans were in lockstep with the US regarding Ukraine - just they don’t comment about it....they’re as guilty of covering now for Biden as his staff is.
It was mentioned here on FR and at other news sites that during Trumps Presidency there were two governing bodies operating - I have no doubt whatsoever this was true.....and Europeans went along with the former party still operating. They all used Trumps term to ‘set the stage’ for what we’re seeing now in Ukraine and throughout the US and Europe.