(November 9, 2024 at 7:02 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 9, 2024 at 5:55 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: No, it’s not that bad. With the election of Donald Trump, Putin has suddenly become less psychotic. He only wants Ukraine to not join NATO (I don’t know about the EU) and he want to keep the territories he already took.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-uk...09553.html
The goals Putin lists in that article are the same ones he's been after all along.
An American general attributed other goals to him which the media obediently repeated, but Putin himself hasn't changed. No NATO, demilitarization, self-determination for the ethnically Russian areas.
Most likely it's clear to the Pentagon now that the war has run its course. The adventure in Kursk failed. Former President Zelensky recently demanded Tomahawk missiles from America but was humiliated when the Pentagon revealed his request and the fact that they wouldn't fulfill it. Zelensky's term as president has expired and he has no legitimate constitutional authority any more, and refuses to call for elections or allow opposition parties. (It will be interesting to see what happens to him. He could retire to one of the many luxury properties his wife has been purchasing around the world. Or his own people might Mussolini him. We know what happens to the leaders of America's proxy wars once America is done with them. See: Saddam Hussein.)
America has long wanted to break up Russia so they could control its natural resources. Putin made sure this won't happen, but American corporations now control all the resources in the 80% of Ukraine that's still intact. The war has also increased the cost of energy in Europe so much that Germany's deindustrialization is greatly encouraged. (Germany still survives on Russian oil, but has to buy it through an Indian middleman, which increases the cost.) Other countries have quietly begun dealing with Russia again -- even Japan, usually America's most obedient vassal, now buys Russian oil and gas directly.
The International Monetary Fund has announced this year that Russia's economy is doing fine. Measured as purchasing parity power, Russia has surpassed Japan to become the world's 4th largest economy. It has also been upgraded from a middle-income country to a high-income country.
A great deal of fantasy has been put out there about what's happening. But the fact is that Ukraine has lost big time. And the clear message to other countries is that allying yourself with the US doesn't help any more. So this little adventure, apart from causing hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, in the end weakens America's position in the world.
Well, aren't you a good little Putin propagandist?
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
