Posted on 07/10/2022 4:02:16 PM PDT by elpadre
Russian and Ukrainian diplomats held four rounds of talks to try to resolve the crisis in February and March, but stopped meeting after Kiev pulled out of negotiations as US and European officials announced that the conflict must be decided on the battlefield, and sent tens of billions of dollars-worth of military hardware and economic aid to Kiev.
The United States and its European allies are conducting “secret consultations” aimed at ending the Ukrainian crisis, Germany’s Welt newspaper has indicated.
In an commentary published Friday, former US ambassador to Germany John Kornblum and German journalist Rudiger Lentz claimed that the secret talks are intended to find a way to provide Russia with a “face-saving exit” from the crisis. Moscow, they suggested, is waging a war of nerves with the US and its allies, and “counting on war weariness in the West and anti-Western sentiment in the rest of the world” for support.
Kornblum and Lentz cited former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt’s strategy of ‘Ostpolitik’ with East Germany and the Soviet Union as a “classic example” of a diplomatic solution, but said that this policy had only been made possible after decades of Cold War confrontation, including the proxy conflict in Vietnam. They recommended a Reagan-style ‘peace through strength’ approach of military and economic pressure to force “the aggressor” to the table, and suggested that Europe should start by regaining control of the narrative on the Ukraine crisis.
The authors did not elaborate on how the West could ‘regain control of the narrative’. Russian media including Sputnik, RT and others have already been blocked across the European Union, while Facebook and Twitter pay close attention to their platforms to ensure that a pro-Ukrainian, anti-Russian narrative prevails. At the same time, mainstream media outlets from across the political spectrum in the EU and the US continue to echo government talking points about “Vladimir Putin’s aggression” and Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine.”
“Russian is doing what it historically does - invade, kill and conquer.”
The Western mass media is doing what it historically does—lie, name call, finger point, demonize, scapegoat and war monger.
Maybe this will end like the Vietnam War. America will declare “victory” and run away from the fiasco as fast as possible.
Uke cedes Donbas area and Zelinsky resigns to live the quiet life of a billionaire in Switzerland?
Forgot to add, Joe Biden takes the credit for ending the war.
It’s Europe that repeatedly invades Russia....France and Germany come to mind
Corrected it...
End all of the boomeranging suicide sanctions immediately.
Make deals to ensure the free flow of fuel, fertilizer, and food.
Good. Ukraine is the sick man of Europe. It needs to give up something and strike a compromise deal to end this madness.
Currently I am posting from Taiwan ..... honest ;)
Why do the three partitions of Poland come to mind? Also, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
(... media continue to echo government talking points about “Vladimir Putin’s aggression” and Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine.” ...)
Okay, I’ll bite, in the Russian alternate universe, what are these to be called, if not the terms in the quotes.
Oh right, de-Nazification.
A pox on both their houses, I would say.
“Russia might be forced to negotiate by the end of the year.”
Forced to negotiate? LOL who are you kidding, by the end of the year Russia will have Odessa and occupy Ukraine up to the Dnieper river. And they won’t be giving ANY of it back.
Thanks for the laugh.
Russia is not the party needing to save face in this deal....
Russia is not even mobilized or at war in this thing. They view it as a police action... You haven’t even started to see what Russia is capable of.
Perhaps, or if a deal is reached, they could pretend that Biden brought Putin to his knees and agreed to pull out.
I hope it’s true - President Retard and his buddies will keep this war going for as,long as they possibly can 🤪
We, the people of the US are ones being punished. The Ukraine/Russia war is draining our resources, driving the cost of living sky high and weakening our economy and military. For the good of this nation, the war must end - now!! Besides, we don’t have a dog in the fight. It’s a European matter to resolve!! Cut off the faucet.
And the Big Guy is skimming his 10%. Not sure how much Zelensky’s cut is.
Yeah secret. Uh huh
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