11/27/2024

Ukraine War - What are they fighting and dying for?

 Trump is now caught between a rock and hard place trying to end the Ukraine War, with Biden antagonizing Putin by allowing Ukraine to use longer range USA missiles to attack Russia. Biden, or should I say his handlers, just placed a roadblock in front of Trump to make sure peace does not come easy.

In any case, I read somewhere that Putin already knew that Trump's 24-hour peace deal is just impossible to work. It is just a con-man's job that Trump is trying to pull.

Putin knew that for Russia to keep the territories it occupied today is not going to be agreeable to NATO or Zelenskyy. After all the massive sacrifices by both sides, who is going to accept the status quo for nothing? What were they fighting for?

On the other hand, asking Putin to get out of Eastern Ukraine or even Crimea is out of the question, again touching on the massive sacrifices already made by Putin in those two years of war. Kursk was just a distraction, an attempt by Zelenskyy to extract a bargaining chip, but Russia is not taking the bullshit. Russia can take its time retaking Kursk. It has all the time on its hands. Just remember that Russia, like the former Soviet Union, thrives on long wars of attrition.

Anonymous

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Russia is fighting for its National Security. NATO is fighting for the interest of the USA. Nothing more, nothing less and nothing otherwise.

Anonymous said...

French cognac producers are saying that tariffs on cognac by China has nothing to do with tariffs on EVs. Really? France wants to eat China's lunch, and when China wants to eat French dinner, they cried foul. What kind of a warp mentality is that?

Now Mexico is being targeted by Trump with a 25% tariff on Mexican imports. Mexico's new President, Claudia Sheinbaum has warned Trump of retaliation that comes with any tariff imposed on Mexican exports to the USA. The 25% tariffs threatened by Trump was an attempt to cut off Chinese manufacturers investing in Mexico to evade USA tariffs in the first place by punishing Mexico.

The USA automakers also have large investments in Mexico as well and will be affected too. The USA is literally cutting its nose to spite its face, but the intention was to force manufacturing to relocate to the USA, which is impossible to achieve.

Mexico has a trade agreement with the USA, which Trump is going to dismantle. But Mexico is a big country to be threatened, having trade relations with China and other South American countries. Mexico is interested in joining BRICS and Trump is making that happen much faster.

What about BRICS saying that any enemy of the USA is our friend and are welcomed? Trump is going to make 'Mexico Great Again', a mantra we will be hearing more often with other countries. No wonder even Russia and China went all out to congratulate Trump over his re-election, Putin sarcastically of course, while Xi said that the USA citizens have chosen what they want.

You will notice that both Putin and Xi are not fazed by the USA election result. Talk about Russia and China interfering in the USA election that is of no difference to them.