Simplicius has been skeptical of every Trump “peace initiative” so far. He’s not abandoning that skepticism, and there doesn’t seem to be any good reason to do so. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
Another week, another new ‘peace summit’ shrouded in the spume of uncertainties, exaggerations, illusions and delusions alike. Without rehashing every irrelevant detail, we can summarize the developments in a few short breaths: Putin and Trump allegedly made plans to meet, but rumors suggest Trump’s agreement is contingent on Putin also meeting Zelensky, whereas Putin has just stated again—unequivocally—that a Zelensky meeting is “very far away”, given that many conditions would first have to be met:
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Trump, afterwards, quickly denied the Zelensky claim, throwing even more confusion into the mix. Putin aide Ushakov tried to clear some of it up:
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Polish outlet Onet made buzz with a claimed ‘leak’ of the US peace offer, which included de facto recognition of captured territory, lifting of sanctions, but no promises against Ukraine joining NATO. However, this was quickly shot down by one of Zelensky’s advisors:
Others now believe the Putin-Trump meeting will again focus more on US-Russian bilateral relations, rather than specifically on the Ukraine war. As always to front-load the information field, other outlets streamed out all sorts of ancillary rumors, including that Russia has agreed to an ‘air truce’ as a kind of gesture of goodwill, which would put a stop to both drone and missile strikes against Ukraine now carried out nightly.
Poland will always say NO to 404 membership due to Volhynia in WWII?
Why should Russia stop now, they are on a roll.
A standing still army is an exposed to enemy fire army.