How could anyone think that putin the putz actually intends to negotiate in good faith? Can anyone cite an agreement he has honored? Negotiation, by its very nature, would give each side something they want. So, it gives him some or all of what he wants. Should he be rewarded for his invasion?
I stated in an earlier post that the major nuclear nations had signed an agreement in early January that nuclear weapons were not to be employed by the signees. Seven weeks later the putz announced he was prepared to use such weapons if anyone had the temerity to interfere with his invasion. This idiot considers his invasion of Ukraine as worth the utter destruction of society with the death of perhaps billions of people.
The negotiations in Istanbul were to result in withdrawal around the capitol, reduced shelling and other movements. He has moved about twenty percent of those troops a short distance and ordered them to dig in. There has been either no decrease in shelling of some areas and increases in other areas.
He has recruited troops from Belarus, Syria, Chechen and another one or two. Now he has called for drafting an additional 135,000 conscripts.
Does any of this sound like preparations for a negotiated settlement?
He has feared a coup for most, if not all, of his twenty odd years in power. Coups most often develop within the military. He has always kept the military at arms length. They ain’t buddy-biddy. Some of the more astute Western intelligence services expect that the military would refuse to initiate a nuclear strike. Such a refusal would almost certainly result in a coup. There are also rumors that he fears a coup from within his inner circle.
Remember, Joseph Stalin did not die from natural causes and Nikita Khrushchev was forced out because they feared his “adventurism.” Regime change was hardly unknown in either Russia or the Soviet Union.
All of that is to say that the level of fear of this denizen of Fantasyland is not warranted. The shoe needs to be on the other foot, to coin a phrase.
His behavior and the sanctions they inspired have upset China. Without the cohesion of NATO, China would possibly have felt encouraged to invade Taiwan. Not now. putin screwed the pooch. China is in enough economic difficulty as it is. It certainly is not prepared to alienate its two major markets.
Now we have the putz getting into an argument with Japan over the Kurile Islands, the Japanese islands that the Soviet Union grabbed in 1945.
His offensive in Ukraine has been accompanied by a flight over Swedish territory along with threats to Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states. Given his “successes” in Ukraine, those threats are laughable, not scary.
Poland has just called up 140,000 reservist.
We need to make him afraid of NATO. All of the NATO members should call up the reserves at the same time. The US should put its fleet of C5As on 24-7 duty hauling artillery, drones and other odds and ends across the pond.
Then we could supply Ukraine with some missiles for wiping out the Russian naval forces in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. This is what Russian has been using to shell and devastate the South of Ukraine.
Turkey has the recognized right to close the Bosporus as it pleases. The Russian fleet would be sitting ducks.
The Ukrainians might toss an occasional shell at a nearby military base or oil facility inside Mother Russia. It just doesn’t sit well with me that Russia can use aircraft and artillery based on their territory with impunity, while Ukraine strikes only within their borders.
It would be nice to see the coward scurrying for one of his bunkers.
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