Putin is not taking the bait to get WWIII going. He knows full well to wait this out until Trump gets in. Russia stands to retain taken territory in a peace settlement as well as a guarantee Ukraine stays out of NATO.
The losers here are MIC, the IC, the democrats, the Ukrainian laundromat society running the war and the zeepers.
“He knows full well to wait this out until Trump gets in. Russia stands to retain taken territory in a peace settlement as well as a guarantee Ukraine stays out of NATO.”
It’s doubtful the Russians will agree. They are not screaming for a peace agreement now, we are, because our pet Ukes are falling apart and we no longer want to waste money.
Russia is already keeping what they have taken, and made it legally a part of Russia. Kiev won’t ever acknowledge those areas are no longer theirs.
Next, that no NATO promise is meaningless to the Russians after the Minsk plan. Russia plays chess. They know we desperately want a cease fire so we can flood Ukraine with weapons, advisors, jets, and missiles... and then some afternoon admit them into NATO as a fait accompli.
Last, we will offer the Russians nothing. No repair of the Nordstream we blew up, no turning on SWIFT and banking, no release of the hundreds of billions of gold and currency on deposit here we stole. No ending of sanctions.
This peace plan is basically us really needing it to stop because we can’t go on much more, and we need to rebuild the Uke military, and us offering the Russians nothing they want.
Might as well call it Minsk III.