Seems someone should have said that before instead of feeding the war.
And as long as they're feeding the war....they really do not want peace. You can't have it both ways.
Keep Türkiye great! { smirk }
Failing (or maybe failed) Turkey, pretends to be somebody of importance
Tell your Zelensky to show up for Peace Talks in Turkey.
During Putin’s prepared statement from which he was reading to the assembled press when he invited Ukraine to Istanbul... FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, PUTING REFERRED TO THIS BEING A WAR.
This was not by chance. Putin did not say special operation. The Russians may be preparring to drop the constraints of the Special Military Operation; calling this conflict a WAR was not only a first for Putin, and Russia, but may be a signal that a change in approach to hositilites may be signaled.
The SMO has a number of constraints in use of force and terms of manpower allocated to the conflict. Russia has not reached 1.7m under arms. In the past 100-120 days, Russia has put several types of multi-stage missile into production and the primary one for use is the Oresnek, a 6 x 6 or 36 warhead missile used once before with kenetic or dumb weighted projectiles against the former USSR missile production facility in Ukraine - which was totally destroyed along with the western technicians and missiles being produced.
Russian FAB’s, Drones, Missiles, and aircraft agument their production of new battle tanks of which over 300 were produced and sent to units not yet allocted to Ukraine combat.
Putin has dealth with sanctions since he was elected in 2000. Russia is the most sanctioned nation on earth by the West since WWII. The Russians and Putin have spent the past 3 years overcoming and working around the western sanctions.
Brics is one the primary targets of Trump. He never once states this, but it is clear when he talks of trade wars with China, or sanctions with Russia that Brics nations are the target of his use of both situations to America’s advantage.
China and Russia may have come to terms for recipical military assistance in case either is attacked the other would come to their aid over the weekend.
The EU has driven the Russian’s and Chinese together which is at odds with Trump’s primary policy to separate them from one another. Brics additonally pulls in Brazil and India as trading partners to Russia and China.
Biden and Blinken left Trump a losing hand, similar in weakness but not the total loss of a hand Zelinski holds.
Trump was dealing with Turkey last week, so it is possible he is doing an end-run around the globalists and NEO-Cons in the US and the Senate who keep him weak on all areas of his MAGA or peace making agenda. If Trump and Putin already planned to deep six the EU-Ukraine 30-day cease fire BS proposal that was rejected months ago, then he is playing 3D chess with Starmer, Macron and Zelinski/Mertz....
Mr. Oresnek is on the way. That much is anticipated. This time it will have HE warheads. Soon we will see if there is a new wonder weapon in this 36 warhead missile. Used with the kenetic rounds, it completely destroyed a deep underground hardened factory. With HE and ground burst or aerial burst the damage will surpass the FABs. Interesting times ahead for Macron, Starmer, Mertz and Zelinski.