Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org April 23, 2025
This morning I wrote that Putin had so badly mishandled the Ukraine conflict that his only choice was surrender or military victory, a victory he has been avoiding for more than three years. If the Financial Times can be believed, Putin has chosen surrender, or perhaps more accurately, partial surrender or semi-surrender.
The Financial Times reports that “Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine at the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.” [The Financial Times continues to display its ignorance or its partisanship by designating Russian military action limited to the Russian territories as an “invasion of Ukraine.” The Financial Times has proven so unreliable in its coverage that I cannot say I have confidence in this report.]
Moreover, the Financial Times reported that Putin told President Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine, Steve Witkoff, that Moscow could sweeten the deal by relinquishing Russia’s claims to areas of the four regions currently considered by the Kremlin to be part of Russia. This concession despite Putin himself having introduced constitutional amendments barring Russia from relinquishing claims to any of its territory.
Putin has yet again shown that nothing he says in defense of Russia means anything. All along Putin has said he would not accept any peace deal unless Ukraine withdrew its troops from the front lines and gave Moscow full control over the four provinces. Now suddenly Putin is willing to piss away a military victory and, perhaps, give back battlefield gains of Russian populated areas for a deal. This point is not clear.
The Financial Times says Putin has stepped back from his demands. When you refuse to play your winning cards, what kind of deal can you expect? By showing such desperation for a deal while winning on the battlefield, Putin has further enhanced his reputation as a person irresolute in war. The consequence for Russia will be another disastrous agreement, such as the Minsk Agreement, that will not be kept and that will evolve into worse conflict.
What Trump wants is not a Great Powers Agreement, but a settlement that lets Trump claim success in ending the conflict. Any agreement will not last beyond Trump’s term of office.
Here is the Financial Times report:
Vladimir Putin offers to halt Ukraine invasion along current front line
https://www.ft.com/content/5d848403-4a15-4592-888b-eb7b754ecb3a
This is an amazing Financial Times news report for there not to be anything about it on RT, Sputnik, BBC, CNN, Los Angeles Times.
PCR is from the Georgia, the Deep South, and as a goober (the slang for a Georgian comes from its main crop the peanut or goober) and growing up in the ’40s and ’50s he’ll have seen segregation in practise and will have been brought up hard-core anti-communist. This may have formed his negative views of Putin, who so far has saved the world from Biden’s will to start a world war, but somehow it’s still Putin’s fault because he waited patiently and didn’t kick ass. Whatever Putin does PCR will find fault with, because if Putin has so far prevented WW3 but is still the bad guy he could never do the right thing for this goober.
“According to the Financial Times …” and “according to people familiar with the matter…” …blah, blah, blah!
Does the Bwitish Eshtabwishment bullshit EVER stop?
LMFAO!!🤣
Paul Cop Roberts
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Divorce cases will be handed over to artificial intelligence
A bill on the use of neural networks in court proceedings could be submitted to the State Duma in the near future
16.04.2025
A bill that would legalize the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in court proceedings could be tabled in the State Duma in the near future. At the first stage, the technology can be allowed to process the simplest documents – court orders, but there are already prospects of using AI in cases that are of a mass nature, for example, divorce procedures, collection of utility bills and borrowing debts. In complex cases, AI will act as a guide for the judge, helping to analyze previous practice.
https ://www .pnp .ru/economics/shadaev-iskusstvennyy-intelekt-mozhet-zamenit-polovinu-chinovnikov.html
Russian Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev believes that artificial intelligence can replace half of civil servants. He expressed this view on April 17 at a conference on the role of data in Russia’s digital development.
“We hope it will not replace people, especially doctors and teachers. I think he can definitely replace half the clerks. Maybe a little more,” TASS quoted the minister as saying.
https ://www .pnp .ru/politics/u-izbirateley-i-nablyudateley-poyavyatsya-cifrovye-pomoshhniki.html
Voters and observers will have digital assistants
On the day for voting in 2025, technologies that will be used in the State Duma elections in a year will be tested
https ://www. pnp. ru/social/iskusstvennyy-intellekt-podklyuchayut-k-borbe-s-bespilotnikami.html
Artificial Intelligence Linked to Combat Drones
Neural networks will not only help detect a dangerous drone, but also suggest how to neutralize it
02.04.2025
Intercept the control of an enemy drone, suppress it with electronic warfare or download it – artificial intelligence will tell the operator what to do when an unauthorized flying object is detected in the control zone. Testing of a comprehensive system for protection against illegal use of unmanned aviation systems (UAVs) will begin in 2025 under an experimental legal regime, the program of which has been approved by the Council of Ministers; the decision comes into force from April 8.
https ://www. pnp .ru/politics/rossiya-i-sng-vstupili-v-yuridicheskuyu-gonku-za-kontrol-nad-iskusstvennym-intellektom.html
Russia, CIS enter legal race to control artificial intelligence
Commonwealth Inter-Parliamentary Assembly adopts first model of progressive technology law
18.04.2025
There is still no gold legal standard in the world for working with artificial intelligence. From 2020, individual national documents are accepted in the US, EU and China. On April 18, at the Tavrik Palace in St. Petersburg, at the 58th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS, a model law was adopted, which should become the standard in this area throughout the post-Soviet space.
The “For Artificial Intelligence Technologies” law model describes the basic concepts and principles of action in this area that CIS countries will be able to use to create national laws. After all, global legislation on neural networks has not yet been formed.
https ://www. pnp .ru/social/ot-svyazi-s-mirom-cherez-finlyandiyu-do-neyrochipov-kakim-budet-runet.html
From connecting to the world through Finland to neurochips: what will RuNet be like?
How Soviet programmers paved the way for the country to the global network
06.04.2025
April 7 marks 31 years since the birth of Runet. On this day in 1994, the first Russian domain – .ru – was registered. In fact, however, the history of “our network” began long before that – even in the Soviet years…
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The next step: maximum digitalization
If the past of Runet is well understood, then the future is not yet determined. According to the chairman of the board of the Fund for Development of the Digital Economy, German Klimenko, it will most likely develop in the same direction as the entire global network, perhaps with a slight delay.
“The first thing is, of course, the maximum penetration of Internet technology in all spheres of our lives,” the expert noted. “You can treat it however you want – you can reject it, you can fear hacks and DDoS attacks, but it’s inevitable.”
As an example, German Klimenko cites taxi drivers who today essentially work not “with” artificial intelligence, but “for” it – accept and perform tasks from an algorithm that monitors their movements, collects statistics, gives advice and recommendations, calculates salaries and takes the share of the aggregator.
“The internet and digital technologies in general are now allowed in areas previously considered unacceptable and sacred. For example, in medicine,” he said. — “It’s easy to assume that in 10 years, we’ll all have special bracelets on our wrists that read all the information about our body and pass it on to artificial intelligence, and AI will “guide” us through life so that we are active, healthy and well-fed. And he’s going to tell us, “Now you’ve eaten, now go to bed. If you don’t want to sleep, there’s an electric shock.”
The Internet will also invade the sphere of working relationships. Thus, according to German Klimenko, there are already start-ups that create special registers for insurance companies.
“Let’s say that a person takes 10,000 steps a day and gets a discount on insurance,” the expert explained. “Either he comes to an insurance company to negotiate, and the company, based on the forecast that AI has given, already knows that he is diabetic and that after so many years he will develop a diabetic foot, and based on that he creates specific conditions for cooperation and agreement on it.
Well, eventually the Internet will come straight to our brains. Elon Musk has already unveiled a neurochip that can be used to remotely control computer devices — and not only introduced it, but successfully tested it on at least one volunteer. Meanwhile, Musk, German Klimenko noted, is not the only one involved in such developments – there are already more modern, more perfect and better devices.“
Paul, for transparency, are you a Freemason? The Financial Times is a Rothschild rag. Why would you take anything they have to say about Putin seriously? You can’t be that naive about Rothschild Jewry. Don’t you know who controls the west?
You think Putin’s about to fold?? For what? He’ll drive to the Dnieper and create a Buffer on the western side. Granted, it should’ve already been done. But Putin loves to exhaust every Diplomatic opportunity on the west. Russia has never been stronger.
There is no proposal from the west the Russians will accept. It’s their way or the hiway.
How else is the Zio-controlled media going to portray the trade of the four Ukrainian territories on Russia’s border for Russia’s agreement to vacate Syria? They now have to make it look like Russia is backing down to that awesome (but entirely puffed-up) Western might, for the deal with Trump likely set up during the Zio-Trump regime in 2019 when the US jackals put puppet Zelensky in power, in order to ramp up hostilities in the Donbas ensuring the Russian invasion in February 2022, which “coincidentally” just happened to be on the demented-Biden watch followed by the Zio-Deep-State rigged US election of 2020.
Paul doesn’t seem to realize that there IS a JEW MEDIA. How he can put any stock into their Lies, Hypocrisy & Propaganda is beyond me. And then push it out there further. Hmm.
All these talking heads need to declare whether or not they’re Freemasons! That’s #1.
So many speak as if Jewry doesn’t exist and has no bearing on GeoPolitical events; that all nations are sovereign and act in their own interests. LOL! Western leaders never do what’s good for their nations. Instead, they all march in lockstep to their Jew Masters. It’s obvious. It’s in our faces constantly. How can we not notice? Westerners’ belief in their sovereignty is perhaps their biggest hallucination, among others.
One good thing about listening to pundits every day is that you eventually learn that they are just noise and their opinion is not respected even by themselves
It’s a rubbish story. The London talks collapse, Joolensky has a tantrum, and over night, Putin pounds Nazi UKraine.
Then, Donald Hitler tells Putin to ‘Stop’.
A leading Fail presstitute says (Nazi UK), “We’re on the brink of World War III, our cities are hellscapes and the economy’s shot”.
The we have ex defence minister Grant Shapps claiming Whitehall secrecy rules prevent him from revealing why Donald Hitler is in cahoots with Putin, but Shapps says this in the next paragraph.
“The former Tory MP said he had ‘some theories’ to explain the US President’s ‘support’ for Russia’s leader, who he branded a ‘tyrant’ and ‘dictator’.”
Shouldn’t that read ‘conspiracy theories’?
The facts, MI6, and maybe Donald Hitler’s Kellogg plan failed, but as I’ve said, this plan had zero chance, and my view, Donald Hitler wanted it to fail, because we’re now in a different game.
Donald Hitler can walk away, attempt to protect Nazi Amerika, and let Naiz Europe fight Russia, first in UKraine, but then a wider war.
A few years ago, we used to hear or read ‘Putin is the only adult in the room’.
MI6 first and foremost, wants Putin gone, and that means making Putin appear to be a traitor, about to sell Russia out. Of course Putin is weak, because he’ll do all he can to avoid a nuclear WW3, but there are reasons why Putin can only be, so weak, and that is, they’ll get rid of Putin.
MI6 calculates that Putin’s replacement will be even weaker, and open to City Crime Cartels offers, thus the collapse of Russia as we know it, and broken into sham democratic states controlled by the CCCs & Wall Street mobs.
Shspps is a liar, and The Time is a shit hole full of MI6 shit. Nazi UK is on thr brink of collapse, so they are going to literally give the country to Amerika with a trade deal. Note, the City of London is not part of Nazi UK.
The we must turn to what Putin said after his 90 minute chin wag with Donald Hitler. Putin spoke to the most senior captains of Russisn business, and he told then, sanctions are never going away, and that they needed to make Russia more self reliant, and to develop markets with the BRICS, and New Free World (NFW), so what exactly does The Nazi Times believe Putin gains from cozying up with Donald Hitler? Nothing!
I’ve been going on about this near secret war between Nazi UK and Russia, now over 20yrs old, and funny, it’s cooled down over the past 6/8 months, and I’d say the Russians literally spelt out what they would do if Nazi UK carried on.
My feeling is that Putin will demolish Kiev over the Summer. I also hold the view that Donald Hitler is in great danger, just as Putin said about 2 months ago.
DH has lost UKraine, even if it wasn’t his war, he’s lost Iran, unless he backs down, and he’s been defeated by the Chinses, who have stopped their investments in US businesses, they’ve stopped taking delivery of Boeing planes, and the Chinese/Russian collaboration has just test flown a commercial airlines that’s going to compete against Boeing and Airbus’s core market.
The UK Nazis are beside themselves with desperation. They are literally hanging on by their fingernails.
While I am here, a few days ago I saw a job for housekeepers at a hotel in Hammersmith. Russian and Ukrainian speakers only. This is how the UK Nazi state wastes your money.
Putin just waits . he will await the outcome of
Trumpelsteins adventure in NE with israel + Iran .
chinese art of warfare !
The delusion of freedom leads to the illusion of democracy.
“according to people familiar with the matter” usually means the News organisation is resorting to Creative writing for political ends, or in other words, they are lying!