Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org May 14, 2025
I have been wondering if the Trump regime’s peace negotiations are sincere. The plan revealed by Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg indicates that the negotiations are not sincere. Putin, Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Shoigu, the former Minister of Defense, have all made it clear that NATO troops in Ukraine are unacceptable and could result in World War III. So why has Kellogg supported, or arranged, a joint statement by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK pledging “robust security guarantees for Ukraine,” consisting of “a coalition of air, land, and maritime reassurance forces that could help create confidence in any future peace and support the regeneration of Ukraine’s armed forces.” This is certainly not the de-militarization of Ukraine that the Kremlin requires, and protection by NATO forces is the same as being a member of NATO.
Putin has brought this upon Russia by his and his foreign minister’s continuous bleating for a negotiated settlement. For more than three years Putin has avoided a military victory. The explanation I offer is that he saw in the conflict what he thought was an opportunity to use it to reach a great power settlement, like the mutual security agreement with the West that he and his foreign minister tried to achieve during December 2021 and February 2022.
Putin’s failure to be prepared for conflict with the West in Ukraine and his withholding of military victory has produced a dangerous situation. Putin’s toleration of a never-ending conflict has widened the conflict into missile strikes deep into Russia and the recent closing of all Moscow airports as a result of drone attacks. This must raise the question among Russians of Putin’s effectiveness as a war leader. One result is that the West has so little regard for Putin that despite his dire warning the West is planning to station NATO forces in Ukraine. It would have been much better if Putin had gone about the business of winning the war instead of trying to use it to negotiate a settlement with the West. The result of Putin’s failure to fight to win is likely to be a much wider war.
https://www.rt.com/news/617483-nato-europe-troops-ukraine/
Does the Kremlin realize that the purpose of Washington’s “Ukraine peace negotiations” is to sequence Washington’s wars with Russia and China because Washington doesn’t have the ability to take them on simultaneously? Does the Kremlin realize that the negotiations are not sincere and are being used to extract Washington from the conflict and to substitute NATO in order for Washington to be able to focus on China, regarded as the strongest opponent? It is clear that Washington regards Russia and China as opponents to be defeated. Are the “peace negotiations” being used to cause wars, not end them?
Didn’t read it all, but I’ve been saying this for a very long time.
Putin the Weak has enabled the war to continue, for this grand deal, which won’t happen. Said it then, Putin should’ve nuked Nazi UK, he still should.
Again, I said from the start of the SMO, that it was a blinder, and he should have launched a shock & awe for 6 days, and on the 7th day, used two tactical nukes on random Western UKrainian towns/cities, with evacuation notice, and repeated this everyday until there was a total unconditional surrender.
I can’t list all the red lines crossed by the Nazis and ignored by Putin. I don’t think they are all in on it. I think the Russians and Putin have calculated that a nuclear war is much more likely and therefore, treading very gently. Is this the right thing to do, or is this just encouraging the Nazi sect?
LOL…
If you are to believe his mordant scribbles…one is left with the impression that spooky PCR is bewildered little boy who’s lost his little doggy on the park.. and wants an ice cream…
Not the imbecile that shafted the American public in the eighties with reaganite trickle down economics for the Wall Street vultures (deregulation, we all got it in prep for the banking collapse of 2008)…which should be called tricky pseudo science…there’s a reason the middle word in economics is actually ‘con’…
and he’s still at it..it’s called revelation of the method..just to get you ‘on page’…
so to speak…
Putin has only one goal, “Protect Russia”, this includes all “Russians” wherever they are. It used to be universal that GB protected the British, that the US protected Americans, but now only Russia and the Chinese seem willing to put their cultural nationals first.
Russians play chess, not poker. They do not bluff or double down. Putin’s generals did a quick blitz in 2022 and then withdrew as a part of the Istanbul agreement. Zelensky then double-crossed the negotiators and led to the deaths of 1-2 million Ukrainians. Meanwhile the NATO MIC got very, very rich off the NATO country tax payers.
The Russians want to preserve the lives and the property of Ukraine as they know that after the inevitable defeat of NATO-Ukraine, they will have the responsibility of rebuilding it.
(See Mariupol for details)
What these halfwits want is for Ukraine to be the new Korea.
No end to the war. Demilitarized zone. Patrolled by foreign troops i.e US.
Locks the US into Nato, no rapprochement with Russia. Locked in place for 70 years. Stops Trump from focusing on the US’s many problems.
A win for the MIC, The Europeans, the Ukes and the Neocon filth.
Bit fucking sad for the dumb American taxpayer, but hey “We stopped Putin”.