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…
What are witnessing unfold in Ukraine today is a variation on an old imperial theme. That is, as Plokhy puts it, the present war “is an old-fashioned imperial war conducted by Russian elites who see themselves as heirs and continuators of the great-power expansionist traditions of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.” Although we have lived under the illusion that after the fall of the Soviet Union, history had come to an end and a peaceful international order was securely on the horizon, the Russia-Ukraine War has awakened us from our dogmatic, post-historical slumber. To cite Plokhy: “The war clearly indicates that Europe and the world have all but spent the peace dividend resulting from the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and are entering a new, as yet undetermined, era.”
Russia has, in the 21st century, once again brutally attacked its neighbor, Ukraine
@Rafi
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30414955
“Neo-Nazi Threat in New Ukraine – BBC Newsnight” (11 years ago)
https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY?si=jWGyTgCgONXpUk7I
“SEVEN DECADES OF NAZI COLLABORATION: AMERICA’S DIRTY LITTLE UKRAINE SECRET
An interview with Russ Bellant, author of “Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party.”
By Paul H. Rosenberg | March 18, 2014
https://fpif.org/seven-decades-nazi-collaboration-americas-dirty-little-ukraine-secret/
(Suggest clicking on above link to read whole article to read something other than the Putin version of history and his spin on the Ukraine invasion and its faulty narrative).
@Rafi
This Amnesty International article places equal blame on both sides but the body of the article doesn’t support that contention:
“The large majority of the deaths were in separatist-held territory in Donetsk, and were likely caused by Ukrainian government forces, but separatist forces appeared responsible for several deaths in Avdiivka and Debaltseve, areas under government control.
The organization’s research strongly suggests that separatist forces fired from these neighbourhoods, and Ukrainian government forces fired into them…”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/11/eastern-ukraine-both-sides-responsible-indiscriminate-attacks/
@Rafi
I find it interesting that your insistence that the conflict is related to Russian agression fails to explain why Ukraine overthrew their elected govt to install one which had a Nazi controlling the internal and external security services during the period in which the Odesssa Massacre took place, while the Geneva Accords were derailed by the Easter attack in Marioupol, and while the war began in 2014. You also fail to detail how your perspective or that of you Ukrainian and Russia allies might explain why Ukraine had a Nazi leading their parlaiment for many years even after new elections… Maybe you can tell us, with the “personal insights” which you find so convincing, why a country which is “not run by NAZIs” would have such a high ranking Nazi in such sensitive positions as these for so many years, or why Zel failed to retract his salute to the WWII Nazi veteran. This isn’t Russian propaganda, these are real Nazis, who should be scorned rather than embraced, and who should be ostracized rather than being raised to positions of power and dominance, rather than the opposite being what did in FACT take place.
Indeed, personal insights may be persuasive, but if they are actually valid, they must be able to explain simple well known facts, which of course, are too often evaded by supporters of Ukraine who would prefer to state their association with those who know better instead of explaining even a single issue raised, as you have done here in your comment below. Since you have such insightful allies with real live experiences which inform them better than those who are more distant from Ukraine, they should certainly be capable of explaining how such an outrage such as I have described here and below took place.
Your preference to ignore these relevant facts, which stand in clear contrast to your assertion that “War in Ukraine is about Russian expansion of their land base and taking of Ukraine’s land”, will provide all the confirmation needed to dispute this assertion, particularly since you hold fast to the notion that you have such close connections to those more intimately situated to explain matters more clearly. In fact, it is a difficult task to explain why Nazis might hold such powerful positions while the Jewish president also failed to offer the slightest regret for saluting a veteran of the Nazi war machine which oversaw the Holocaust. And yet, if your claim is accurate, you must explain how these fact support your presumably better informed perspective.
@Rafi
-Tom Lehrer (who is Jewish)
“and everybody hates the Jews)
https://youtu.be/CgASBVMyVFI?si=j5000o-4uKN2Dvwt
@Rafi “And everybody hates the Jews”
@Rafi
@Zorn Both
I also have Ukrainian friends both Jewish and Non Jewish.
So have they given real personal insight to their lives and not this dry politically cloaked viewpoints and/or propaganda. Too many commentators write in manners that are so impersonal and void of the human hardships and tragedies caused by these monsters in their quest for more power and land.
I have heard some very fascinating personal survival stories or methods of secretly coping while being Jewish in both Russia and the Ukraine.
@Rafi Did they leave Russia or the Soviet Union?
@SZorn various times.
@Rafi When did your Russian friends leave Russia?
War in Ukraine is about Russian expansion of their land base and taking of Ukraine’s land.
The rest of the talk, is just the Russian bullshit double speak and lies why they are doing it.
In Soviet Union they made Ukrainian illegal. Just like they made practicing Judaism illegal. Anyway this is a truly boring discussion. I certainly am not going to convince those who buy Russian Nationalists lies and justifications for invasion(s) and worse yet spread the the evil evil lies and propaganda of these people. No more than I am going to convince Putin that he is immoral and a murderer. He and his ilk have what they find important and they will say anything and spread any lies to justify their land and power grab.
So if you love mother Russia and Putin feel their actions are justified, I can not change your mind and will stop trying to do so. The Russian and Ukrainians I know Jew and non-Jew feel Putin is evil and a monster. I side with them and not Putin!
@Rafi
The Svboda party is a Nazi party. Its co-founder was Andriy Parubiy. Parubiy never turned from his nazi ideology even as he came to leave the Svoboda party. He raided the Ukrainian arsenals prior to the Maidan Coup and these weapons were used in that event. Parubiy was the Commandant of the Maidan, and commanded the Hotel Ukrainia from which the shots were fired killing the people in that tragedy. Parubiy was later named to be the head of Ukraine’s The National Security and Defense Council, their NSA. He held this position from the point of the American overthrow of the Ukrianian govt til about six months later. At that point he became the PM of Ukraine, which he held for a number of years, five or six. So, the most powerful position in the security apparatus of Ukraine during the most pivotal period of Ukraine’s history was controlled by a nazi, following which he became the PM, a position which he held across multiple years and more than one election. While Parubiy was not single handedly running the country, can you name a nazi in Russia who controls its parliament? What about its security services? The Azov Battalion, later the Azov Regiment, later the 3rd Assault Brigade is another point of concern in Ukraine which has no double in Russia. Andriye Biltesky is the founder of the Azov movement and the Azov battalion, and still runs the 3rd Assault Brigade. When things began failing in the aftermath of the Failed Summer offensive of 2023, Zel made a public show of his consulting with Biletsky. Where is the example of Putin seeking support in a difficult moment by publicly consulting with a nazi battalion leader in Russia?
Where is the example in Russia where Putin saluted a WWII Nazi SS soldier and refused to appologize for doing so? Where is the example of Nazi statues all across Russia which celebrate the perpetrators of the Holocaust as exist and are still being erected in Ukraine?
This war isn’t about who does or doesn’t have nazis in their country. It is about whether Ukrainian Nazis wield power in Ukraine, and they clearly do.
And to Sebastien’s point, it is not just the Russian minority whose cultures and rights are suppressed. This is govt policy, and it violates the Helsinki Final ACt, the UN Charter, and several other international agreements guaranteeing minority rights. It is quite disgusting actually.
@Rafi The Russian Federation does not suppress minority cultures the way Ukraine does.
My Russian friends also blame Putin and his mass murdering gang of thugs. They call him a monster. They blame him not just for the all domestic problems but for attacking Ukraine. He and his fellow thugs are fully responsible for all the deaths.
Not impressed nor are my friends by those who regurgitate Russian double talk. Such as they are fighting NAZIs. It is true just like in Russia, Ukraine is full of anti-semites and far from perfect but the country is not run by NAZIs.
In the eyes of my Russian friends, Russia has done what it has done historically, trying to expand its land mass by conquering a neighboring countries and using rationales (made up excuses) to justify it.
If they get away with it, when they think they can win they will try and conquer Moldova, Latvia, Finland and others.
Not defending Ukraine as some great country but to me and many others it is the victim of Russian Expansionism.
@Rafi
I do not understand those who support Putin and his Russian Nationalist cronies and their killing and what they have done to both Ukraine and Russia. I do not understand why anyone would support murder and . I do not understand why anyone would support the Russian government and what it has done and is doing to Russians.
I have a similar but somewhat different perspective.
I do not understand those who would support Zelensky and his Ukrainian nationalists and Nazi cronies and their killing and what they have done to both Ukraine and Russia. I do not understand why anyone would support murder, subornation of civil war and the one sided slaughter of civilians as took place over the first 8yrs of this war. I do not understand why anyone would support the Ukrainian tyranny which, while turning a profit, holds Ukraine fast in its grip, and what it has been doing to Ukraine, Russia, Europe, and America, while also expecting Israel to partake in their madness as well.
You see, while what is taking place in Russia is the work of Russians, what has been taking place in Ukraine is the work of the US, primarily, with support of the rest of the so called free world. The cost, corruption, and calumny which has been done to first Ukraine and later the rest of Europe and the world in pursuit of toppling the Russian govt has been a revolting display of the very thing which you noted yesterday you objected to, namely outside efforts to see the Russian govt set aside, if I took your meaning correctly. In any event, while you fixate upon the issues arising from Russia, you ignore the issues which were pressed on Ukraine, first by the US in their Nuland led coup of 2014, complete with the payoffs going to the Bidens, Romneys, Soros’, etc, all of which seems to have missed your interest.
As you said,
just as should Brazil, as did the US…but of course, this is not what took place in Ukraine, which is quite unfortunate, the consequences of which appears far more relevant with regards to the West than the govt which the Russians are accepting as their own, til such time as they choose to reject it.
I do not understand those who support Putin and his Russian Nationalist cronies and their killing and what they have done to both Ukraine and Russia. I do not understand why anyone would support murder. I do not understand why anyone would support the Russian government and what it has done and is doing to Russians.
@Sebastien
I worry about his Big Pharma allied Cheif of Staff, his support for the mRNA-vaccine-as-needed-proposal as part of Operation Stargate, his support of people such as Gerald Parker who should have no role in his govt, his lack of comment about having promised to close the yet to be closed OPPR, the disengagement with the WHO which appears to be more of a negotiating position than a sincere disengagement, as well as his choice of Bondi as AG and his tight association with Musk whose mix of antisemitic comments and calls for responsible govt seem to overshadow his background in advocating for chipping every brain on the planet…not to mention his too closely allied friend Steve Witcof who is too closely allied to (dare I say too dependent on) the Qataris.
So, with all of these points being raised, I would agree that Trump is off to a fantastic start, but these points are each quite troublesome and portend a collective concern, for me at least.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-putin-updates-us-russian-leaders-discuss-plans-ukraine-ceasefire-2025-03-18/
Trump’s doing an amazing job, so far, if you ask me.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-846564
@Peloni
https://youtu.be/CJh59vZ8ccc?si=lMfQR66wsIWQom-h
@Rafi
Thank you for making this point.
Neither freedom nor liberty is a gift which can be handed out as so many chocolates to be enjoyed by an infant. It must be earned thru the exercise of great challenges and erected thru a national effort, or, like the chocolates you may offer a child, the lack of an appetite for freedom among the people who have to maintain it, will result in such freedom as could ever be awarded to quickly be consumed by the disinterest and lack of regard held by those who allowed such a priceless commodity to be offered to them rather than seizing it for themselves.
While the fire of freedom is dimming around the world, I look to nations such as America and Brazil for examples of nations where the institution of enslaving tyranny has been and is, respectively, rejected by a collective public will. No such element of universal or collective defiance reigns in Russia against Putin, just as no such rejection of Zelensky exists in Ukraine, where the ever increasing tyranny has grown ever greater at an alarming clip.
It would take a great deal to artificially imbibe the spirit of liberty into any nation where it lacks a credible history or systemic growth of such demands as led to the freeing of America from the tyranny which marked the captured status of electoral politics over the past many years. And of course, we can see the result of supporting freedom in nations where freedom has no relevance in examples of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So while you despise Russia for being less democratic than is tolerable, it rests with the Russians to cut their own path and find their own way. Likely, the raising of a proxy war by the war party in the US has not endowed the republican spirit in Russia in any way which is meaningful, and in fact has more credibly lit a fire of disgust for all things which they once thought represented the American people.
Distinctly different from Russia is the issue of Ukraine, where an increasing dimming of democracy has been overseen with growing American intervention, in a nation where democracy was ever only practiced with the obscure tradition of plutocratic rule. So while I agree that Russia should find her own way without American coercion or intervention, Ukraine is today a mess specifically made worse because of past intervention by America’s war party and oligarchs, which leaves America holding the leash and paying the bill for the newly established levels of tyranny which reside over the Ukrainian people, even as the Ukrainians continue to lack the fortitude or resolve to change this in any way at the moment. Thus Trump’s recent declaration and disdain for Ukraine’s rising dictatorship was not only an appropriate but necessary rebuke of these facts. Still, the Ukrainian people, such as they are, must find the wherewithal which they lacked in 2014 and since to choose the path of their own fate, no different from any other nation, to the limits of their newly established borders. It will of course be difficult for Ukraine to reorder their house as needed, and they will likely not soon lose the lust of battle which has grown into a national effort over the past decade, but the consequences of their inability to adapt will be their undoing should they maintain the path erected for them by the radicals in the US.
I am for Russians freeing themselves from the tyranny of Putin and having true democratic elections with a new constitution. This new government hopefully will want to live with its neighbors peacefully.
Anyone who believes that Putin is freely elected and allows freedoms (free speech, freedom of assembly………….) is either simply ignorant or believes in Russian Nationalism (Dictatorship) and does not desire a greater Russia is simply not someone I can engage in a meaningful constructive dialog.
I do not understand those who support Putin and his Russian Nationalist cronies and their killing and what they have done to both Ukraine and Russia. I do not understand why anyone would support murder. I do not understand why anyone would support the Russian government and what it has done and is doing to Russians.
So you would then see that it is perfect for Ukrainian Neonazis installed in government post the 2014 Kiev coup, and they declared war on people of Russian ethnic background in Ukraine. Putin was totally within his rights to enter Ukraine to save russian lives, witnessed by the many.nation OSCE.
@FQuigley You have it all wrong!
I do not hate Russians! I have many Russian friends mostly Jews. They all hate Putin and his type. Many have fled Russia because of anti-semitism (Jew hatred) or the lack of freedom. Some tell me stories of having to hide the fact they were Jews under the communists. Having a Jewish prayer book was illegal.
They complain of the lack of freedom and free elections under Putin and his ilk.
So I am sympathetic to those who were deprived freedom of: religion, speech, right to freely elect their own leaders and basic human rights.
My Russian friends want freedom in Russia and are against the current war.
I am against Russian expansionism and lack of freedom for its people. So I am not against Russia but against the brutal dictatorship running Russia.
This dictatorship has gotten huge amounts of Russians and Ukrainians killed and wounded and homes destroyed. Both Russians and Ukrainians have been uprooted because of the war started by Putin in his drive to expand the borders of Russia.
I do not understand those who support Putin and his Russian Nationalist cronies and their killing and what they have done to both Ukraine and Russia. I do not understand why anyone would support murder. I do not understand why anyone would support the Russian government and what it has done and is doing to Russians.
I am for a Russia that is democratic, free, and is part of the free world. Russians love sport and to compete in International Sporting Competitions and they are good in many sports. They have been locked out of many of these competitions because their government and its leaders are considered international criminals. I want Russians to be able to compete in sports and business across the free world as part of the free people of the world. I want the masses of Russians to enjoy life and be free this tyrannical dictatorship they live under.
Peloni
Rafi was stating his hatred of Russia. He accused people of being pro Russia
That’s my position. I am very much totally on the side of a Russia victory against post coup Neonazis who immediately established a brutal dictatorship.
A brutal dictatorship over their own Ukrainian people. This is the meaning of the banning of political parties as well as individuals, wholesale murders and even Christian Churches. Trump was right in calling Zelensky a dictator and should have stuck to that call
For Russia it was and will always be a national liberation struggle.
The telephone discussion today, still ongoing, demonstrated how wrong Rafi is, and refers to the defence of Zionism AGAINST Iran.
And not just Rafi so many on israpundit.The Russia hatred … for the good of Zionism must be ended for ever. The brains of these really evil supporters of the root stock of Neonazis who I have traced historically, mostly alone here, in their murdering of Jews from the Ukrainian Pogroms 1918 to 1921, which I am proud to show that my political brothers Lenin and Trotsky fought against to the end…the end of those JEW MURDERERS…those brains, like Adam, Russia hater extraordinary, are going to be avenged for having surely consciously no? Supported the Ukrainian NEONAZIS
This is for discussion.
These are just quick snatched points on the phone call which is A PHONE CONVERSATION going to go down in history
However, the Ukrainians also concede that the Russians have an overwhelming military advantage in the long run because of their vastly greater material resources and population. They also report that Russian forces are already massing on their border from a renewed offensive. And they think that Putin is likely to order another mobilization soon, adding even more soldiers to the Russian army. As a result, the Ukrainians are pleading in increasingly desperate language for increased European aid and even a restoration of American aid. Some Ukrainian comentators claim that inprivate, some of his advisors have been urging to to adopt a more sympathetic policy toward Ukraine.But all of them are loyal to Trump and publicly support his policies toward Russia, Ukraine and ‘peace.”
From the alternative Ukraine Universe: The Ukrainians actually say they are doing well on all fronts with 1991 Ukraine, including the Donbass, that thay have totally stalled the Russian advance toward Prokrovsk, which remain in Ukrainian hands,and have halted Russia;s almost completely halted Russia’s advance in the Donetsk region. Almost–the admit they haven’t completely halted it. They claim that the Russians are taking very heavy casualties,and are losing large quantities of arms and other equipment.. They claim that their home-manufactured drones are taking a heavy toll not only on Russian forces in the field, but on airfields, munitions and weapons storage depots, oil storage facilities and even oil refineries throughout Russia.
With repact to Kursk, they say that their forces still retain control of some areas, although admitting that the Russians have recaptured some of the previously Ukraine-0ccupied territory and have kille or captured some Ukrianian soldiers.
But far less, the Ukrainians say, then the Russians claim. They also claim that their (Ukrainian forces are continuing their phased withdrawal from Kursk, and the redeployment of their forces in Kursk to eastern Ukraine, in order to reinforce their defensive positions there. More later–my lunch is ready.
@fquigley
A better response than my own.
Michael
“(Then again, maybe he got the “uniform” idea from Zelenskyy) ”
I thought Putin looked very fit. Not bad for a man who according to you, had terminal cancer and who was losing the war.
A year ago. Remarkable recovery he has made.
He moved at seventy with alacrity. Tell me again how many foreign NATO mercenaries were in the triangle.
And not covered by Geneva Convention!!!! Interesting times Michael!!!!
Rafi
“It has nothing to do with a pro Israel blog.”
I notice that people who have a big bee in their bonnet and cannot assess things objectively soon lose track of reality
Look at the 20 articles presently on israpundit. Not one deals with Russia in any aspect.
Even as Europe splits vehemently from America and even as President Trump talks to President Putin TOMORROW
You didn’t notice that did you?
You are already far gone as they say “with the fairies”
Folks at Israpundit
The European ruling elites, or ruling class, is out of it now so long as Russia and America keep them out by means of exhaustive diplomacy
And it started as a proxy type conflict. Trump unlike Biden showed a will to live and that was a key thing that Maga also learned to appreciate
He wants to have a settlement not a death wish.
This goes back far. Napoleon, Lenin and Trotsky, Civil War, the Nazi Invasion 1941, all around the same repetitive theme of “to destroy Russia”.
A truce will solve nothing at all and that’s why Zelensky and Europeans are now parroting only the peace word…but falsely
Zelensky and Europeans live in a lethal dream world which involves only destroying Russia.
They want a truce, policed by NATO , SITUATION
They thereby want to be able to create false flag operations
Which amounts to world nuclear war. It is as lethal and clear cut as that
@Rafi
Thank you for that.
@Peloni I removed my last comment about you censoring my comment. Thank you for rescuing the comment even though we strongly disagree what is Russian propoganda and what is not.
I will agree that Russia is not the only one to use censorship in this world. So in defending Putin and Russia it is not needed to point this out. An effective defense if it were true which it is not that Russia is an ethical democratic country with a constitution that protects free speech and liberties.
Putin regularly murders and jails opposition. He attacks and takes over neighboring countries when possible to pursue his greater Russian goal!
Still believe that “Russiapundit” would be the better blog name for Russian discussions. I know it is within the prerogative of the publisher and editors to make this determination in the end.
@Rafi
I did not delete you comment, and would not do so without expressly noting I had. I did however rescue it from the trash.
This being the case, this site does not condone ad hominem attacks, and describing the Co-editor as a Russian propagandist qualifies as such, particularly as it is untrue. In any event, your comments and opinions are yours to make here as you like, but if you employ such ad hominem in the future, your comments will not be restored from the trash. While you might prefer to describe this policy as censorship, it is intended to keep an open dialogue based on the topics being discussed, and preferring to use ad hominem in place of logical discussions is distracting to this purpose, which, again, is why it is against the policy of this site.
One thing more, as you describe censorship as being a Russian tactic, I will remind you that the purging of conservative voices has still not been entirely reversed in the US, where the govt, upto the return of Trump to the White House, was still coercing the censoring of public debate based on ideology and political and medical opposition. Hence, demonstrating that while these Stalinist tactics are employed in Russia, they are employed in Ukraine and the US as well. Just an observation.
Additionally, I have no ill will against you, and generally appreciate your comments as well as those of others, but the site policy is based on a reasonable expectation that we not be too abusive to eachother, even as we share our disagreements. Hence, I would appreciate it if you adhered to this policy so I do not have to play the part of enforcing this policy or addressing this matter further.
@Peloni, you sound a bit defensive pulling out your I am the editor card.
Yes, you can determine not to do what I suggested would be logical, that is obviously factual.
However, I can call you on your illogical, confusingly named blog and pro Putin and Russian Nationalists propaganda, that is my right!
@Rafi
So it is pro Russia Nationalist to expect the West to maintain faith with the Western traditions?
When you begin running this blog, you can make that assessment. Til then, we will continue as is.
@Peloni, thank you for my making my point with your passionate, aggressive and lengthy pro Russian comment belongs in a blog which could aptly be name Russiapundit.
I am a pro Israel advocate (Zionist and a Jew). I have no interest in your pro Russian Nationalistic Arguments. I am not interested in debating the history of Russian territorial expansionism and their historical and/or current rationalizations and lies to substantiate their capturing the land of other countries or swallowing those countries up.
It has nothing to do with a pro Israel blog.
@Michael, let me be blunt your comment is what I deem anti-Jewish or antisemitic. I do not agree with anything in your comment and find it vile.
@Rafi
The exploitation and weaponization of the Ukrainian state against the ethnic Russians as well as against Russia requires no love or attachment to Russia to grasp. In fact, the suspension of such international norms as diplomacy in the West demonstrates the warped value set which has replaced and defeated nearly every aspect of conserving what should be understood to be both great and good in the Western world.
While maintaining faith with such values as have been routinely cast asunder by the I-Hate-Russia addicts, which may or may not have fueled your gross mischaracterization of the positions advanced on this site, it is difficult to deny the reality that the Ukrainian govt was overthrown by the US, that the same was done to Libya as well as to Serbia. These tactics have led to the destabilization of the Arab world and has even been employed in an attempt to do the same against the Israeli govt. Jews have historically received the greatest protections in civilizations which have exercised equality before the law, and have disproportionately suffered to the degree to which the exercise of law became arbitrarily applied. Hence, it should be little wonder that in what has come to be the illiberal West, that Jews are once again suffering from the equal justice before the law, from the failure to employ diplomatic negotiation in preference to full scale warfare, in essence from the failure of the West to restrain itself from trying to emulate some of the worse aspects of the Soviet Union in its quest to finally bring Russia to its knees using the Ukrainian state as its chosen blunt weapon.
Hence, when I state that Russia is not wrong in defending itself against such Western abuses which have become more routine than unique, you shade me as being a Russian propagandist, when in fact I am instead a true advocate for the conservation of the values of the Western world which have been trod upon as if they were so much dirt.
If you can not grasp this fact as being at least arguably defensible, it is likely that we will have little on which to agree, and if that is to be the case, so be it. Even so, as you might prefer to libel me as a Russian talking head, it is in fact a libel which I would not make against you by describing you as being either a Neocon nor a Nazi sympathizer.
Disagreements based upon substantive matters should not lead to squandering the debate in personal abuses such as you have done by suggesting my arguments were made in bad faith, as such abuses as this detract from the weighing of facts which should instead be discussed at length. It is also a ad hominem attack to do so, and such things are against the policies of this site.
Imporatantly, you should note some of what I wrote above:
Ironically, you and Adam have each in turn demonstrated the relevant distortion which I described in writing this passage which has been associated with the West’s preference to discard diplomacy in place of simply killing Russians, so thank you for proving the point I cautioned against, even as it gives me no pleasure to see either of you doing so.
Hello, Rafi
You seem to be saying that Israpundit is politically schizophrenic. If we weren’t somewhat Jewish, I would agree; but seeming schizophrenic, especially with politics or religion, is simply being Jewish.
Concerning Putin, he sometimes TALKS peace, but his “body language” says quite the opposite:
cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9fqnKv3dug
(Then again, maybe he got the “uniform” idea from Zelenskyy)
Israpundit needs to be divided in two I believe to make it logical:
1. Israpundit – Relating to Jewish and Israeli news and commentary
2. Russiapunidt – Relating to the Russian Advocacy News, Propaganda, disinformation, and commentary
Qualitative points do occur
There was a qualitative point with the Russian October Revolution of 1917
There was another qualitative point when Hitler took state power in 1933
And there was a qualitative point too in the Maidan Coup seizure of state power in February 2014
Denial of these necessarily lead to all kinds of very evil things
One of these is hating the truth that Putin is a hero because he acted to prevent a genocide of Russian people in early 2022
@EvRe1
I think you are mistaken. The point raised in this article is that public threats between the US and Putin should be avoided, not because Putin does not want peace, but because diplomacy rather than public threats will make it easier for both sides to negotiate a settlement. In fact, this was exactly what Trump and Vance correctly criticized Zel for doing in the Oval Office, or one the things in any event.
Both Trump and Putin want peace. Hence care should be taken to bring these two superpowers towards an outcome which they each want and need.
In any event, this is what I drew from the article and why I posted it.
Adam
No one has advocated appeasing Russia. What has been advocated is to not appease American aggression which led to the Maidan Coup, a civil war in Ukraine, and the proxy and economic war waged upon Russia to achieve regime change.
Your words here are a gross mischaracterization of what I wrote. In fact, my comment was specifically related to the use of art of diplomacy. Indeed, if you read what I wrote, you will find that I challenged that the art of diplomacy has been so long ignored that some interpret it as appeasement, and ironically enough, you have done exactly this in mischaracterizing my statement.
Curiously enough, the mixture of support for Ukraine and hatred for Russia has many people routinely losing the ability to forego leaps of logic. Whereas I would not suggest that this is what causes you to make such a leap, you certainly have leapt.
In any event, there is no change in my perspective, as I have ALWAYS advocated for the use of diplomacy rather than public threats between super powers, something which has been ignored for so long that it has led many, perhaps yourself included, to mistake advising the use of diplomacy for supporting appeasement, which should never be condoned.
This article presupposes that Putin doesn’t want peace. Or am I mistaken?
The side that appears least interested in peace is the Ukrainian side who are being enabled by the EU.
The article cited said this, which is a larger quote than the one above:
“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.”
It is clear to many people who search for qualified and well verified information that Russia has a serious and well equipped armed force including many weapons systems that we, (the US) do not have an answer to yet. I believe this is another reason why Trump wants to make peace. The main reason is to stop the killing.
Putin is just wary of Ukraine and the EU because they have lied to him before and appear willing to lie to him again. But he is a pragmatist who appears willing to consider a “new detente” with the US. (Andrew Korybko’s substack).
It is quite possible that Putin is using this period of time to make gains on the ground that will solidify his bargaining position for the negotiations ahead.
This does not in itself signify his unwillingness to make peace, it shows he knows who he is dealing with: The EU and the Nazis in Ukraine running things there have done everything in their power to undermine his country. They have destroyed a lot of trust.
The US believes in “trust but verify.” Why should Russia be any different?
There is a marked shift in the rationale being presented for appeasing Russia from previous articles and editorial commentary concerning the Russo-Ukraine war published by Israpundit. Up till now, the rationale for appeasement has been that Ukraine and NATO started the war, and that the Russian invasion was therefore morally justified. Now, the authors of these articles, and Peloni in his commentary, shift to a realpolitic argument: Russia has enormous military power and could destroy the United States in an instant, Hence it is in America’s national interest to make a deal with them. However, I believe that history shows that when a nation yields to the demands of another nation or other “entity,” such as a terrorist organization, the aggressor keeps make new demands , until the agressed-against nation is forced into total submission to the aggressor and loses its sovereignty. This is what happened to the Roman Empire when it repeatedly yielded to the blackmail of the invading tribes. More recently it happened to Germany when it kept yielding to the demands of terrorists who kept hijacking German planes. Once the Germans sent a modest expeditionary force to kill and capture the terrorists, and the operation succeeded, the hijackings stopped.