Posted on 03/06/2025 9:34:25 AM PST by marshmallow
According to Maria Zakharova, the true intention of France and the UK, which came up with a plan for Ukraine, was to prevent a collapse of the front line for Ukrainian forces
MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Ukrainian forces shouldn’t get any reprieve on the battlefield, as only firm agreements can lay the groundwork for a Ukrainian settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"What we need is firm agreements on a final settlement. Without this, any kind of respite or regrouping - all that is absolutely unacceptable, as it will lead to exactly the opposite outcome," she said at a news conference.
"It is absolutely unacceptable to deploy units of armed forces in Ukraine <...> under any European flags," she went on to say.
According to Zakharova, the true intention of France and the UK, which came up with a plan for Ukraine, was to prevent a collapse of the front line for Ukrainian forces.
"In reality, we are dealing with a blatant desire to achieve a respite at any cost for the agonizing Kiev regime, the Ukrainian armed forces, and to prevent the collapse of the front line," the diplomat said.
"Aided by its Western allies, the terrorist regime would use that pause to strengthen its military capabilities and subsequent attempts at revenge," she continued. "This is obvious to everyone. In that scenario, the conflict would inevitably resume with renewed vigor."
"Camouflaging it doesn't help anymore," the diplomat said, referring to statements by the former German and French leaders, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, who conceded that the agreements reached in Minsk in 2015 only aimed to allow Ukraine to be better prepared and supplied with weapons.
The spokeswoman made the comments in response to a proposal that France and the UK presented on March 2. She said the.......
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Russia doesnt want to cease fire. Simple as that.
Good - they don't need it when they're winning and learned their lesson at Minsk.
The yellow-eyed golbaloids - and people like you - hate their nation/people and only want them ended.
Why would Russia cease fire now?
This is a huge balancing act.
If the Russians think they can win—why would they want a peace settlement... of any kind?
After all, why would you settle for half a loaf when you can have the whole?
Trump is going to have to figure out a way to ramp up the pain on the Rus in tandem with his efforts to ramp up the pain on the Ukes.
“Russia doesnt want to cease fire. Simple as that.”
Doesn’t look like either side wants to end the war. Little z didn’t want peace, and Vlad the Invader doesn’t want a ceasefire. The killing will continue.......till moral improves.
Russia wants a permanent ceasefire, when this thing is finally ended. It does not want a temporary ceasefire which would allow its opponent to rearm or re-organize. Exactly what the article says. Try reading it.
Merkel: Minsk agreements were meant to ‘give Ukraine time’
German ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel reveals that in 2014, the Minsk agreements aimed to give Ukraine time to get stronger and for NATO to increase its support to the country in the face of Russia.
Part of me thinks that Trump is doing it to call Putin’s bluff.
Right now, people are divided on what to do. If Trump suddenly gets aggressive regarding Ukraine, he loses a lot of his support, that expected him to bring peace to Ukraine.
But if Trump exhausts his options with Putin and Putin rejects his overtures, then he’d have more support if he actually went hardline on Russia.
Actually that was the end result of the Munich Agreement. It came at a time when Britain had no stomach for going to war. Hitler really did not want to sign it, and was angry that he was boxed in by Chamberlain into signing it.
But once Hitler broke the agreement and invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia, people realized and accepted the inevitability of war, and were behind Chamberlain when he agreed to back Poland.
You get to a permanent cease of hostilities by offering something (temporary cease of hostilities) so that folks come to a table. Both Russia and Ukraine have been obstinate about this for a long time. Now, by Trump strong arming Zelensky, he at least has said he is ready to talk. As of a few days ago, it is Russia who is huffing and puffing and not offering to meet.
Russia can continue to fight if the choose, and Zelensky may lose but it doesnt look like he is going to surrender, so it will continue to cost russia.
Trump is telling Z to ‘deal’ but so far, that doesnt seem to mean surrender. It seems to mean accept some losses and make it worth our while (rare Earths) to provide assistance. That makes financial/business sense, though it is a little mercenary like as well on our part. Everybody else is in it for their own gain, so why not us? (Its a moral question I wont try to answer here.)
Whats not said, but what I believe, is that we (whether that’s Trump, Europe, or both remains to be seen) would not find a full collapse of Ukraine palatable. Europe is saying this out loud quite boisterously. Trump not so much. But russia has shown that it is not anymore ready to take on a modern European army than it has shown it was ready to take on the underwhelming Ukrainian army, being we are entering year 4 of a 3 day special operation.
Bottom line, its in russia’s interest as much as anybody’s to cease fire and at least try to negotiate. But russians have a kind of pride where they cant see past their own puffed up chests.
Assuming that folks sincerely want to "come to a table" in order to find a lasting solution. There's no indication that Ukraine (or more accurately, its globalist handlers) want this. On the contrary, there's every indication that it wants to fight on. In such a situation, a temporary lull in hostilities serves no purpose other than to conduct some running repairs before fighting resumes. Sometimes folks have to be forced to a table at the point of a gun.
Whats not said, but what I believe, is that we (whether that’s Trump, Europe, or both remains to be seen) would not find a full collapse of Ukraine palatable. Europe is saying this out loud quite boisterously.
Ukraine isn't going to collapse. What's going to collapse is the globalist project inside Ukraine. This is why the Europeans are suddenly so vocal. They can see the "forever war" agenda falling apart before it has achieved its aim of regime change in Russia.
Your second paragraph is hype and speculation. "Globalist project inside Ukraine?" If there was one, after three years at war, it doesnt exist today.
And the last sentence? You think that Europe let russia invade Ukraine so that it could effect regime change in russia?
Thats a special kind of stupid.
In my view there is a difference between a truce and a cease fire.
The connotation of a cease fire is something which is formally agreed upon.
The Euroweenies earlier this week were using the term truce which I thought was odd.
In my view a truce is simply a stoppage with no formal conditions.
Since Russia is confident that it is winning a truce does not serve their interest.
“It is absolutely unacceptable to deploy units of armed forces from Africa and North Korea in Ukraine ... under any Russian flag,” she went on to say.
No.
War is the Globalist strategy now. They know that recovery of lost territory won't happen on the battlefield. The plan now is to keep the war going indefinitely so as to drain Russia and bring about the removal of Putin through internal Russian revolt. His woke replacement then returns the lost territory voluntarily and apologizes.
The Globalist project inside Ukraine is continuing. NATO expansion is a part of it. It is and always was about using Ukraine as a staging ground for bringing Russia into the woke world.
Again, no.
The aim for Russia was and still is a type of color revolution built on the Ukrainian model and spreading eastwards from Kiev. The Russian invasion wasn't in their plans.
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