{"id":320945,"date":"2025-12-31T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320945"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:16:42","slug":"putins-ever-widening-war-continues-to-widen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320945","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Ever-widening War Continues to Widen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Dec 29, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Reality it seems is beyond Putin\u2019s grasp. Following today\u2019s 91 drone attack on Putin\u2019s residence, the Russian president quickly reaffirmed his commitment to peace negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt to kill Putin occurred doing the peace negotiations and a White House report that Trump and Putin have just had a \u201cpositive\u201d telephone conversation. Putin told Trump that there would be retaliation against Ukraine, but Putin still shows no intention of using sufficient force to bring the four year old conflict to an end. Apparently, as long as Putin can hold on to the prospect of a peaceful settlement, the conflict will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Contemplate the increase in seriousness of the Western provocations each time the war widens. Not only were all of the weapons sent that the West declared would never be sent, not only were sanctions added to sanctions, not only are Russian civilians, power infrastructure, and airports subject to Ukrainian attack, but also the Russian strategic bombing fleet and now today an attack on President Putin\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>By failing to quickly end the conflict by force, Putin invites increasingly serious provocations. At some point, the provocations will reach a level that Putin can no longer ignore and will result in the outbreak of generalized war. This is a reckless risk to continue to take, not an act of diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s irresolution at war has been explained as Russia\u2019s reluctance to kill very many of their Ukrainian brothers. However, the long drawn out village by village slugfest has resulted in many times the Russian and Ukrainian casualties that would have occurred from a quick victory.<\/p>\n<p>From whatever angle we view it, Putin\u2019s conduct of the conflict is so defective that it is inexplicable. Nothing good can come of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Donate<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2025\/12\/29\/putins-ever-widening-war-continues-to-widen\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By failing to quickly end the conflict by force, Putin invites increasingly serious provocations. At some point, the provocations will reach a level that Putin can no longer ignore and will result in the outbreak of generalized war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320946,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320945\/revisions\/320946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}