Peloni: Diplomacy is such a lost technique that many in the West perceive this practice of employing empathy towards an attempt to anticipate enemy actions as being either supplication or appeasement. The consequence of a lack of diplomacy is what started this war. It is time to reverse this policy failure, and turn the hot war into some form of peace, be it hot or cold, but neither will be achievable in the absence of the diplomatic arts.
The key to Russia’s nuclear arsenal lies in its stealth submarines. If Trump really wants peace, threatening a fellow nuclear-armed super-power is not going to get the job done.
Leo Hohmann | Mar 13, 2025
By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0
Americans are not being adequately informed about Russia’s military capabilities. If you rely on the mainstream corporate media for your information, you would get the impression that Russia operates a relatively backward military and that its president, Vladimir Putin, is all bark and no bite, full of bluster and not to be taken seriously when he or his aides draw hard red lines against Western backing for Ukraine.
This is flat out dangerous, as most Americans are ignorant of just how much President Trump and other Western leaders are playing with fire.
So much is riding on the negotiations taking place today in Moscow between U.S. chief negotiator Steve Witkoff and the Russian team. Putin has already rejected the idea of a temporary 30-day ceasefire, preferring more substantive talks aimed at addressing the “root causes” of the war and that will lead to a long-term peace.
Author and blogger Michael Snyder provides a dose of real politik in his excellent article posted at EndofTheAmericanDream.com.
Russian submarines are known from their advanced stealth capabilities. The Russians currently have 64 subs that are operational, and many of them have been equipped with “ultra-quiet” features that make them incredibly difficult to detect. When we think of nuclear war, we tend to think of missiles that are fired from thousands of miles away.
But the Russians could simply move a couple dozen “ultra-quiet” subs right along our coastlines and conduct a sneak attack from point blank range. Major cities on both coasts, including Washington D.C., would be destroyed almost instantly. Other major targets deep inside the continental United States would be wiped out within just a few minutes.
If Russian subs simultaneously launched hundreds of nuclear missiles at us from point blank range in the middle of the night, there wouldn’t be much that we could do. The White House would be destroyed before they could even get the president out of bed.
I asked Google AI about the stealth capabilities of Russian submarines, and I was told that they are considered to be a “nightmare”…
Russian submarines, particularly the Yasen-class and Borei-class, are known for their stealth capabilities, making them difficult to detect and track, and some are even considered “nightmare” for Western military observers.
Yasen-class subs are particularly stealthy, and according to Google AI they are designed to launch cruise missiles that can carry nuclear warheads…
Yasen-class submarines can carry nuclear warheads, as they are designed to be nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines, capable of launching missiles with nuclear warheads.
Borei-class subs possess even more firepower.
Each Borei-class sub carries up to 16 ballistic missiles, and each one of those missiles can carry multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles…
The Russian Navy possesses eight Project 955/A “Borei-class” (NATO: Dolgorukiy) SSBNs, five of which are the improved Borei-A (Project 955A) variant. These submarines are 170 meters long and can travel up to 29 knots when submerged. Each vessel can carry 16 Bulava SLBMs, each of which contains multiple MIRVs. Featuring pump-jet propulsion and other acoustic improvements, the Borei-class submarines are considerably stealthier than their Soviet-era predecessors.
The Russians have the ability to pull off a nuclear sneak attack against our country at any time.
So it would be in our interest to make peace with them.
On Wednesday, President Trump threatened to do “very bad things” to Russia financially if they do not agree to the 30 day ceasefire that he is proposing…
Donald Trump has warned Vladimir Putin he is ready to do “very bad things” to Russia financially if he does not accept a ceasefire in the war with Ukraine. The US President told reporters in Washington: “There are things that wouldn’t be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don’t want to do it that because I want to get peace. “In a financial sense, yes we could do things that would be very bad for Russia, that would be devastating for Russia. But I don’t want to do that.”
Publicly threatening Russia is not going to help, and it has the potential to backfire severely.
So hopefully President Trump and his team will choose to take a more diplomatic approach.
Less than 24 hours after Ukraine agreed to the 30 day ceasefire that the Trump administration is proposing, the Russians pummeled Ukraine with a dramatic series of drone and missile strikes…
Russia staged blistering strikes across Ukraine last night just hours after Kyiv signalled it was ready for a ceasefire following talks with the United States.
The massive missile and drone attacks cast doubt on Vladimir Putin’s willingness to accept Donald Trump’s demands for peace in the three year war.
And Russian forces continue to make steady gains on the ground.
In fact, it is being reported that the Russians have successfully taken the town of Sudzha…
Footage emerged this morning of Moscow’s soldiers flying the tricolour in Sovetsyaka Square in central Sudzha as other clips emerged purporting to show fleeing Ukrainian vehicles being targeted by Russian drones. ‘Our troops are successfully advancing in the Kursk Region, liberating areas that were under the control of the militants. The dynamic is good,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters today.
The Ukrainians are being routed on the northern front now, but the government in Kyiv refuses to acknowledge how weak their bargaining position has become.
Earlier today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy boldly declared that his government will never “recognize any occupied territories as Russia’s”…
How is it going to be possible to bridge that gap?
I have no idea.
In the end, I just don’t see how a permanent peace deal will happen.
Read the entire article by Michael Snyder…
@Laura, I am convinced dealing with people who have an alternate reality a waste of time. Nothing constructive can come from it. Only frustration at best.
@Laura
Let us be clear. The US overthrew Ukraine’s govt, put it on a path of civil war, refused to support negotiations to prevent a war, refused to support negotiations to end the war in the early months and since. So, the aggressor nation was in fact, the US, and now that the US has a new head of state, it is clear that they are sincere about ending this manufactured conflict, to which Putin has responded in kind. So yes, I do believe Evre1’s statement was correctly stated.
As far as Ukraine being forced to surrender, that fledgling nation has been weaponized and abused again and again over the past twenty plus years by the West in its pursuit to dominate and destruct Russia. So, forcing Ukraine to accept peace after first having manipulated it into war, would be necessary step for the change in policy in the US. Indeed, the war party in Ukraine controls a great deal of power and wealth, so it will be a difficult task to get Ukraine to end this war.
@Laura The identity of the aggressor depends on whether you go back 3 years or 11 or even 21. The make-shift Ukrainian state lost its legitimacy after the Orange and Maidan coups.
It’s beyond absurd to claim the aggressor nation and head of state is the one that wants peace while the invaded nation doesn’t. Apparently your idea of “peace” is surrender.
@Rafi
Promises, promises. All you have done is repeat declamatory statements without evidence amounting to propaganda and announce that you won’t bother reading evidence for counter-arguments. Peloni and I have scrupulously avoided Russian sources. Saying so doesn’t necessarily make it so. You are engaging in projection. Citing “friends”is the same as “anonymous sources” and doesn’t carry much weight.
@Rafi
I claim NOTHING on Putin’s behalf. Instead this is your own bias speaking on a point of which you seem to confess to being ill informed. In fact, your claim that I am carrying water for Putin once again indicates your belief that I am a propagandist on a topic on which you refuse to even do the research to confirm that I am even wrong. And I am in fact not wrong.
It just takes a brief internet search of Parubiy’s name to gain access to the details that he was in fact the Commadant at the Maidan, and that following the US coup, he was made the head of Ukraine’s security services, and later became PM of Ukraine for a number of years, and that he was in fact the co-founder of Svoboda, the Nazi Ukrainian party. Much of this is documented in just this single report:
https://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right
And before you try to shade this report as being Russian propaganda, you should be aware that Channel 4 is a British news outlet.
Of course you do not. But then again, you denigrate the claims others make as being on Putin’s behalf, suggesting your own perspective is better informed by the “real personal insight[s]” shared with you by your Ukrainian friends. Yet, when I question you with your better informed opinion regarding a very basic fact, ie that Parubiy is a Nazi who served in sensitive positions in Ukraine’s govt, you explain that you need not research such claims. So perhaps you don’t need to research such claims, that is, unless you intend to suggest others who have done their research are speaking on behalf of Putin.
@Peloni you claim many things on Putin’s behalf. I need not research every claim to know that Putin and his cronies want more land as part their expansionism and territorial demands.
As I will say for the last time. If you or someone else feels the need to shade this reality or buy Putin’s version of history and the present that is your issue and not mine.
@Rafi
How did Russian imperialism result in Ukraine having a Nazi controlling their internal and external security as the Odessa massacre took place? It is a simple but serious question for you. Your continued lack of a credible response demonstrates the fallacy of your contention.
The problem is Russian expansionism and territorial ambitions. If someone else feels the need to shade this reality or buy Putin’s version of history and the present that is their issue and not mine.
@Rafi
Are you disputing that Parubiy co-founded the Nazi Svoboda party? You seriously think this is a fiction?
Suggest anyone who does not understand or digest the above read the entire article. My friends also blame Putin and his Russian supporters not fictions or imagined villains but the Russian aggressors.
@Rafi
Since you are now citing Plokhy instead of your Ukrainian and Russian associates, what might he say about Ukraine placing a Nazi in the positions I have detailed? Indeed, what does empowering Nazis or saluting Nazis have to do with the notion that this is a old fashioned imperial war?