Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

The Ru negotiators ,because they come from a very DIFFERENT set of ‘negotiating rules/ different understanding of what is true/ different ideology/very experienced at deflection / trick of coming up with impossible conditions / skilled at drawing out negotiations/ skill at threatening opposition/ Eric, etc, etc, etc’ , CONTINUE TO RUN RINGS AROUND THE US negotiators.

All of the above allows Putin to continue to ‘inch ‘away for Ukr land.

Putin puts ABSOLUTLY no value on his soldier / equipment losses as he thinks that he can out manoeuvre Ukr on this front

In his mind it will all be worth it when he is ‘left ‘ with at least the Donbas, Crimea and Luhansk Oblasts.

Ru needs a win so the following idea. Trump could ‘promise’ Putin that he will pump billions into the RU economy, repair what Ukr destroyed, do massive trade deals , help it the extract its rear earth, etc, wealth , have returned all its ceased assets and not be responsible for the damage it has caused in Ukr IF, IF, IF, Ru stops the war immediately and withdraws back to the pre 2014 boarders within one week.

The above plan should be shared with the Ru and at least it’s a document for ‘discussion’

Russia HAS NOT THE SOLE RIGHT/FRANCHISE on coming up with challenging proposals/ ones with laying down ‘very tough’ conditions.

The above plan has big wins for both sides and significant losses for both sides

is that social media inclusive of the RU throll farms and the Orwell basement???

I do kind of wish the various media groups would finally clue in to the fact that while Donnie is in the picture all of these "talks" are essentially Russian-driven pantomime with a sprinkle of Donnie's now-dead Nobel Prize ambitions.

Donnie's White House lacks leadership when it comes to a strategy….because it lacks a leader. Donnie inhibits the office…but he has no plan or opinion beyond what will give him personal kudos or enrich him. So thanks to that the various characters the US sends over to Moscow do so with little in the way of objectives or requirements. Probably little more than "Go get a Deal!" from Mr. Art of the Deal™ on the way out the door.

So the following happens:

• Russia give the US their wishlist.
• The US barely Yandex-Translates it correctly to English (or worse..they use the Kremlin's Yandex-translated English version unedited).
• Europe pretend to have "crisis meetings" to give the impression of taking the "Russia talks" seriously…although they likely know where this is going.
• The various Cauldron Clubs online get exicted and use the "talks" in an attempt to boost Russia as a reasonable partner. (While ignoring everything else)
• Europe pledge to continue supporting Ukraine as usual.
• Ukraine pretend to consider the deal but ultimatly reject it because the Russians want something unreasonable.
• Russia reject their own deal and blame Ukraine for being unreasonable.
• Rinse and repeat.

It's a wasteful merry-go-round of non-diplomacy, but it keeps running because Donnie still wants his "peace" kudos, and the Russians live in increasingly desperate hope that one day Ukraine might say yes and save them from an eventual disintergration of the Russian state.

I suspect that these talks with keep happening and we'll have many "Istanbuls" right up until Donnie leaves office, but that nothing will actually come of it.