It’s not usually the victors who sue for peace. From Strategic Culture at strategic-culture.su:
Trump’s shoddy peace overtures are not to be taken as a basis for a lasting deal and security treaty.
After nearly four years, the U.S. wants out of a quagmire of its own making in Ukraine. Russia’s objectives remain reasonable, righteous, and achievable. There is no compromising.
Successive American and European governments own this conflict, which can be traced back to the CIA-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 against an elected president. Obama, Trump’s first administration, and Biden all promoted the proxy war scenario along with European NATO vassals for the calculated strategic defeat of Russia using Ukraine as cannon fodder.
The provocations accumulated with the genocidal aggression against the Russian-speaking people of Ukraine from 2014 until 2022. The U.S.-led NATO alliance weaponized a NeoNazi regime in Kiev to do its dirty work until Russia ran out of forbearance with the murderous treachery and launched its special military operation in February 2022. Russia’s goals were just and right: to protect the Russian people; to denazify the regime; and to ensure that NATO’s relentless aggression over several decades was brought to a definitive halt.
Despite expending hundreds of billions of dollars and euros on weaponizing a proxy army that comprised not only Ukrainian foot-soldiers but clandestine deployment of thousands of troops from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and the Baltic States, among others, the criminal war gambit has been defeated by Russia.
President Donald Trump, in his second administration, has come to realize that the sordid game is up. American imperialist interests are demanding elsewhere in Asia-Pacific with China, the Middle East, and in the U.S. presumed “backyard” of Latin America, with Venezuela.
The European theater is a costly, bloody mess. Ukraine and its NATO sponsors have been roundly beaten. They have run out of men, weapons, and money. As the Kiev regime crumbles from the weight of its own corruption, so too is the preposterous Western narrative that this was some kind of noble cause to purportedly defend democracy from Russian aggression. Democracy born from a CIA-orchestrated NeoNazi coup?
Russia has secured most of the historic Russian lands that were formerly and artificially part of eastern and southern Ukraine: Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye. Russia will push on to secure the rest, including Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Odessa, and Sumy.
How many hundreds of billions are in the shekel buckets that GI Zelensky has a kung-fu grip on?