WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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Posted by aoibhghaire

This I believe is relevant to the war in Ukraine...


The key to the scam is Ukraines setting up ‘The Green Agenda’. This Green Agenda means they don’t want the Ukraine conflict to end. FTX had ties to the Ukraine government, WEF and the top Biden adviser. The funding route is the United 24 platform set up to supply the arms, drones, etc.

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Yes, or, rather, similar scams are really the only reason that a country called "Ukraine" even got going in the 1990s.

Extension of the fact that all modern wars are "Bankers' Wars". Armed robbery on a grand scale.

We can go to something like "Nicuraguan aid" = boxes of machine guns used to exterminate nuns = returned revenue to the U. S., mainly due to Republicans I think. So this is truly a two-party issue, or why we are effectively dominated by only one party.

The main difference about Ukraine is that it is bigger, and evidently is vitally necessary for The Money Launderer as the dictator of the "collective west". The obvious solution is to dismember the "Uniteds" so that no one is able to perform these operations, which, in general, are totally protected by law. If it was easy to prove corruption and there was a will to prosecute, we could not possibly have any politicians. If governments did not kneel to Soros/WEF, etc., then those guys would be forced to operate at the level of armed gangs, and then we would simply destroy them.


edit: here's a little more:


FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried is Under Constant Observation by Bahama Authorities… in Luxury Hotel


Bankman-Fried is hiding in Albany Bahamas, a resort owned by famous golf-player Tiger Woods, and pop-singer Justin Timberlake. According to media reports, he is planning escape to the non-extradition safe haven Dubai. It is stressed that constant attention from Bahama authorities makes potential departure attempts unlikely.

The US Department of Justice and the SEC were planning to look into the accounts of FTX, according to US media sources. The regulator is especially interested in a transaction that transferred $10 billion of FTX customer funds to Bankman-Fried's trading company, Alameda Research. The company is managed by his girlfriend, while he remains the owner.

Former FTX CEO Bankman-Fried Loses Entire Fortune of $16 Billion and Files for Bankruptcy

Also Internet activists discovered that $500 million has disappeared from the accounts of the company under 'suspicious circumstances.' The total amount of money lost remains unclear.

However, various US media reports, citing data provided by industry analysts and analytical firms, suggest that hackers may be responsible for all these strange and likely fraudulent transactions.

Russia Donetsk Advance, Promises to Retake Kherson, Ignores US Diplomatic Advances, Talks to Iran

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VU8dUGgBU2Y

Alexander thinks that the Russian troop withdrawal actually started about 10 days ago when the flag atop the Kherson administrative building went missing. The other clue was the late deputy governor Stremousov blurted out that the troops were being withdrawn to the east bank of the Dnieper. There was also a report on the Russian channel that day by two majors about the withdrawal and they weren’t happy about that.

But in starting the withdrawal days before the official announcement (when Surivikin told Shoigu), gave the Russian troops an advantage in that they were able to withdraw almost all personnel and equipment to the east bank without encountering heavy attacks from the Ukrainian military.

Also good news is the Russians have taken Pavlovka near Ugledar which sits on the main transportation route from Ukraine, and they have also captured a string of small towns near Adeevka and closer to Donetsk.

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Russia boosts forex reserves
Russia’s foreign currency reserves increased by 1.2% during October to over $547 billion as of November 1. Moscow has been ramping up its reserves as a shield against Western sanctions.

The increase over the previous month totaled $6.5 billion, the regulator said, noting that the rise was due to a positive market revaluation.

The central bank regularly publishes updates on its holdings with a one-week lag. Russia’s international reserves, which are highly liquid foreign assets held by the Bank of Russia and the country’s government, consist of foreign-currency funds, special drawing rights with the IMF and monetary gold.

Russia lost access to roughly half of its foreign currency reserves in early March after they were frozen by Western central banks as part of sanctions introduced by the US and its allies in response to the conflict in Ukraine. The rest of the reserves consist of gold and foreign currency held domestically and Chinese yuan assets.

READ MORE: Russia unveils anti-sanctions shield
Despite this, the Russian Finance Ministry said the country would be able to cope with sanctions thanks to its abundant reserves.

In 2021, the nation’s forex reserves surged almost 6% to $630.6 billion. An all-time high of $643.2 billion was recorded in February 2022.

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Failed crypto exchange was money laundering op – report

Samuel Bankman-Fried, the founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, allegedly laundered billions of dollars through Ukraine by setting up his company as the central clearinghouse for all crypto donations to Kiev’s war effort, according to the Gateway Pundit. Democratic politicians sending aid to Ukraine would see their money come back in the form of donations through FTX, the outlet claimed.

FTX launched crypto donation platform Aid for Ukraine in March, setting itself up as the central clearing house for all cryptocurrency donations to Kiev’s war effort. While the exchange was supposed to route those donations to the National Bank of Ukraine, the report suggests it funneled at least some of the money back to the US through political donations. Bankman-Fried was the second-largest donor to the Democratic Party for the midterms, pouring some $38 million into candidates’ coffers in 2022 alone.

The Ukrainian government had already received over $60 million in crypto donations as of March. FTX did not publish the amounts subsequently taken in, but other fundraising campaigns on Kiev’s behalf have been hugely successful - Star Wars actor Mark Hammill raised enough funds to buy 500 drones in a single month, for example.

READ MORE: Hundreds of millions vanish from collapsed cryptocurrency giant
Whatever funds the exchange had under management have presumably evaporated with the rest of its assets due to an alleged hack last week, and the exchange filed for bankruptcy on Friday. The resulting chaos has sent crypto markets spiraling.

In addition to bankrolling political campaigns, Bankman-Fried spent millions lobbying to shape cryptocurrency regulations. Democrats responsible for overseeing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission were particular targets for his largesse, and he is now under investigation by that same agency for moving $10 billion in client assets off FTX to his hedge fund Alameda Research.

While Bankman-Fried’s private jet has been tracked to Argentina, the disgraced billionaire insisted on Saturday that he was still in the Bahamas.

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Hundreds of millions vanish from collapsed cryptocurrency giant
Failing cryptocurrency exchange FTX has begun moving assets offline, after more than $600 million in tokens was allegedly pilfered from the digital wallets on its platform.

After filing for bankruptcy protection from creditors on Friday, FTX “initiated precautionary steps to move all digital assets to cold storage,” said Ryne Miller, general counsel for the firm’s US arm. “Process was expedited this evening to mitigate damage upon observing unauthorized transactions.”

However, considerable damage had already been done. According to an estimate by blockchain research firm Nansen, $662 million flowed out of FTX’s US and international exchanges. The firm’s main wallet, which was used to process withdrawals, was drained of its entire balance of 45.8 million FTT tokens, worth an estimated $97.2 million, Nansen said.

A separate review by another analytics firm, Elliptic Connect, pegged the thefts at $473 million. The FTX community administrator on Telegram said the exchange had been hacked. FTX applications are infected with malware, according to the administrator, which also warned followers against loading the exchange’s website.

The Bahamas-based FTX and about 130 affiliated companies commenced Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings on Friday in Delaware. The firm also announced that Democratic Party donor Sam Bankman-Fried had resigned as CEO.

Bankman-Fried, who reportedly ranked behind only billionaire political activist George Soros in 2022 pledges to Democratic Party candidates, saw his entire $16 billion fortune wiped out this week, according to Bloomberg, which called the collapse “one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth.”

Miller, the general counsel, said the exchange was “investigating abnormalities with wallet movements related to consolidation of FTX balances across exchanges.”

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Alleged Winter Pause in Ukraine Conflict ‘Could Last as Long as Six Months’, US Report Suggests
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 following the Donbass republics’... 13.11.2022, Sputnik International

Conflict-related hostilities in Ukraine may be stalled “well into next year” due to bad weather, a US media outlet has quoted unnamed Biden-administration sources as saying.

Referring to Russia’s ongoing special military operation, the sources allegedly claimed that the “winter pause could last as long as six months”.

According to insiders, rain and soft ground will slow the movements of both Russian and Ukrainian forces, who then may face cold weather and heavy snows.

The sources also stressed the importance of using the alleged winter slowdown in both sides’ troop deployments to rebuild a “defensive and offensive weapons supply” to Kiev.

The claims followed Colin H. Kahl, the US under-secretary of defense for policy, telling reporters that, “You’re already seeing the sloppy weather in Ukraine slow things down a little bit”. He added that, “It’s getting really muddy, which makes it hard to do large-scale offensives.”

The remarks were preceded by the Pentagon announcing additional military assistance to Kiev worth about $400 million. It comprises four highly-mobile short-range Avenger air defense systems capable of firing Stinger missiles as well as large amount of ammunition, including for the high mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS.
Moscow has repeatedly warned that Washington and its allies providing Kiev with weapons further escalates the Ukraine conflict.

Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, after the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics appealed for help in defending themselves against Kiev’s provocations. Shortly after, western countries rolled out a comprehensive sanctions campaign against Moscow in retaliation, also starting to supplying weapons to Ukraine.

https://sputniknews.com/20221113/dea...collaboration2


Death of Japenese Mercenary Debunks Claims of No Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Tokyo’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially confirmed the death of a Japanese "volunteer" in the ranks of the Ukraine Armed Forces on November 11. 13.11.2022, Sputnik International


Japanese authorities called on all nationals to leave the Ukraine combat zone this past spring. However, social media has revealed that at least one Japanese citizen was still enrolled in the foreign mercenary battalions that are actively engaged in the country.

These battalions often recruit on ideological grounds, reaching out to neo-Nazis and the ultra-right. One such Japanese used the call sign "Dobre", meaning “Good” in Russian and Ukrainian.

Foreign Mercenaries to the Rescue?


On February 27, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the creation of the "International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine" in the name of “protecting Ukraine, Europe, and the world”, calling on foreign citizens to come fight.

Most countries did not formally support the move. British authorities, for example, warned that those who heeded the call could be prosecuted upon return. For its part, the Japanese government urged its citizens not to travel to Ukraine, “regardless of the purpose of their visit.” However, the work of Ukrainian embassies in recruiting fighters to "protect democracy" continued.

Fighters of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion take the oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Sophia Square in Kiev before being sent to Donbass. Members of the Nazi battalion have committed hundreds of war crimes against the population of Donbass over eight years. The Azov flag has an inverted image of the runic symbol “Wolfsangel”, which was used by the Nazis.

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In July, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the number of foreign mercenaries stood at 7,107, with most coming from Poland. On September 2, Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu informed that the number of mercenaries had fallen by more than 2/3 since the start of the special military operation.

Mercenaries That Don't Exist

The foreign mercenary-tracking Telegram channel TrackANaziMerc is gaining increasing popularity.
This channel also regularly posts information and photos of neo-Nazis, whose bodies show tattoos with portraits of Hitler and Bandera, Nazi German troop symbols, as well as signs of Nazi paramilitary units. Despite their ideological similarity, these men are quite diverse in terms of their national origin, stemming from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, elsewhere in Europe, and so it seems, even Asia.
Of course, none of these mercenaries want their photos to become public or to have their faces recognized (Dobre bashfully covers his face with a "sunshine" emoji). But, most interestingly, the mercenaries’ identities were revealed by... their own posts on social networks, through forgotten geolocations from the battlefields, video blogs from the trenches, trips to Ukrainian supermarkets, direct comments that they are now fighting against the Russians, and photos with famous Ukrainian troops.

First Japanese "Volunteer" Died

On November 10, information about Dobre's death appeared on social networks. The following day, the Japanese Foreign Ministry confirmed the story.
The Telegram channel reported that the Japanese man apparently adhered to the militaristic views of Imperial Japan. In his microblog on Twitter, the mercenary shared the details of his adventures with his followers.

"The comrades took some great pictures today. Dobre, you look great as always!"

A photo of alleged Japanese neo-Nazi mercenary 'Dobre' who joined the Ukrainian forces.

Earlier on November 4, it became known that fellow mercenary Zeng Yuhong from Taiwan had also been killed. He had fought for the Carpathian Sich Battalion, a paramilitary unit in Ukraine with the largest number of foreigners in its ranks. After his death, Dobre said that he "will fight together with his spirit until the end of the war" and will visit his hometown after the end of the hostilities.

A photo of alleged Japanese neo-Nazi mercenary 'Dobre' who joined the Ukrainian forces.

"Yes, I'm a Nazi. So What's the Problem?"

The majority of mercenaries are devout neo-Nazis, with Dobre being just one of dozens of examples.

On November 6, a Portuguese mercenary from the Carpathian Sich Battalion, Rico Chaves, went "to war" with the subscribers of the mentioned Telegram channel, where he confessed his sympathies for Nazism.

“Yes, I'm a Nazi. So what's the problem? I like to fight, and I will kill all the Russians in the Ukraine. Yes, I'm in the house of civilians, on the front lines. I'm not a NATO soldier, I'm in the Carpathian Sich. I've already killed a lot of Russians".

I noticed the returned British merceneries appear to be "carrying on as normal" even though:


British authorities, for example, warned that those who heeded the call could be prosecuted upon return.


Isn't this a bit like Joe Biden "promising" that NATO will not expand eastward in 1991?


Oh, they said "could", and it was only a "warning". That's called a "strong stance" by double-speakers.

The "international coalition" has little trouble accepting the word "Nazi" for themselves:


Tokyo’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially confirmed the death of a Japanese "volunteer" in the ranks of the Ukraine Armed Forces on November 11.

Japanese authorities called on all nationals to leave the Ukraine combat zone this past spring. However, social media has revealed that at least one Japanese citizen was still enrolled in the foreign mercenary battalions that are actively engaged in the country.


The foreign mercenary-tracking Telegram channel TrackANaziMerc is gaining increasing popularity.

This channel also regularly posts information and photos of neo-Nazis, whose bodies show tattoos with portraits of Hitler and Bandera, Nazi German troop symbols, as well as signs of Nazi paramilitary units. Despite their ideological similarity, these men are quite diverse in terms of their national origin, stemming from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, elsewhere in Europe, and so it seems, even Asia.

Of course, none of these mercenaries want their photos to become public or to have their faces recognized (Dobre bashfully covers his face with a "sunshine" emoji). But, most interestingly, the mercenaries’ identities were revealed by... their own posts on social networks, through forgotten geolocations from the battlefields, video blogs from the trenches, trips to Ukrainian supermarkets, direct comments that they are now fighting against the Russians, and photos with famous Ukrainian troops.

Earlier on November 4, it became known that fellow mercenary Zeng Yuhong from Taiwan had also been killed. He had fought for the Carpathian Sich Battalion, a paramilitary unit in Ukraine with the largest number of foreigners in its ranks. After his death, Dobre said that he "will fight together with his spirit until the end of the war" and will visit his hometown after the end of the hostilities.

The majority of mercenaries are devout neo-Nazis, with Dobre being just one of dozens of examples.
On November 6, a Portuguese mercenary from the Carpathian Sich Battalion, Rico Chaves, went "to war" with the subscribers of the mentioned Telegram channel, where he confessed his sympathies for Nazism.

“Yes, I'm a Nazi. So what's the problem? I like to fight, and I will kill all the Russians in the Ukraine. Yes, I'm in the house of civilians, on the front lines. I'm not a NATO soldier, I'm in the Carpathian Sich. I've already killed a lot of Russians".


Meanwhile, on the ground:


Mercenaries from more than 40 countries are currently engaged in combat near Zaporozhye, with the majority of them from Poland, Vladimir Rogov, who heads the We Stand With Russia movement, told TASS on Saturday.

The overwhelming majority of them are Poles, of which there are 5,000, Rogov specified. He also said Japanese, Australian, Canadian, French nationals and people from Spanish-speaking countries among mercenaries.

Rogov also recalled that more than a thousand mercenaries had already been killed in the city of Zaporozhye.



Regarding whom, according to Medvedev:


"For reasons that are obvious to all sensible people, Russia has not yet used its entire arsenal of weapons. Nor has it hit all possible enemy targets in localities. <…> Everything in its time."


It's like another round of repent-or-die, except this one isn't based from a Latin Bible where you have to decide this very moment, as in Ukraine is not being carpet-bombed into obliteration. You get this mysterious extension of "time", which is not exactly the most solid guarantee in the world, because it would be erroneous to think that means "prolonged indefinitely" either. But I would have to agree that "de-Nazification" is a form of "forced conversion", not into anything in particular, just out of the death cult.

Lavrov all isolated at the ASEAN summit and who gets the red carpet coming off the plane.


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https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/statu...72005578178560

Beware of friendshoring:


US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen described India as Washington’s "natural ally" during a press conference on Friday.
What Yellen failed to draw attention to, however, was the US’ continuing pressure on Delhi over its relations with Moscow amid the former's special operation in Ukraine.

The Treasury secretary arrive in Delhi on November 11 to discuss the strengthening of economic and financial bilateral ties, seeking a warm reception. Nevertheless, Washington announced the resumption of defense sales to Pakistan, India's major regional rival, prior to her visit, with a whopping $450 million package earmarked for the upkeep of F-16 fighter jets.



An "ally" means a "defense pact", as in "Israel is not an ally of the United States". What fluffball actually means is, "the British Empire belongs to me". While even the Saudis are in business with China, and OPEC is starting to do whatever it wants instead of what the U. S. says, note how she is going to get "our oil" into India:



"There is an attempt to put pressure on India by supporting Pakistan. America is badly defeated in Afghanistan. America, whom everyone used to consider as the world's number one power, has lost that recognition. Now, the biggest challenge for America is whether it will be able to sustain the support of Europe and Britain," Harsh Vardhan Tripathi, a senior fellow at Delhi-based Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (SPMRF) told Sputnik.

Similarly, Yellen addressed the oil market ahead of her visit to Delhi, claiming that India stood to gain from the West's proposed price cap on Russian oil.

Delhi has indicated that it does not plan to budge in its "substantial, time-tested relationship" with Russia, despite pressure from Washington.

"India does not immediately see any benefit from America. Above all, the issue on which India remains sensitive is the issue of Kashmir where it can trust countries like Russia to find support at the UN," Tripathi argued.

"Due to the departure of western companies from Russia, there has been an emptiness which India seems to be filling. Russia also becomes necessary for India in terms of oil requirements," Tripathi added.

A recent foreign policy survey conducted by India's prominent think tank ORF suggested that almost half of India’s young population consider Russia to be the most reliable partner over the last 75 years.


"America is and will continue to work on its strategies but now India has an upper hand in the bilateral ties. And New Delhi is not going to give up this position. There is immense pressure on the Indian government to put across the point that the country does not cower in front of anyone at any cost; not even the US," Tripathi concluded.


See how competent our "leaders" are? "We can tell you what to do, long after you quit listening..."

Maybe they will all go hide in Dubai, so that place can enjoy the influx of two million "upper management" refugees needing a place where they can go on "believing". This is after being defeated by the Taliban, an agent of their own creation, from some old printing presses in Nebraska.

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Important Questions That Every American ( everyone in the world ) Should Be Asking
Reese Report - November 9, 2022

https://rumble.com/v1sz27w-a-thread-...be-asking.html



Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v1qcwig/?pub=4

Wade Frazier posted this long, powerful, detailed and very interesting article a few hours ago. It's the kind of thing that should be taught in every school in the world.

I'll copy it all here, as RT is censored in a number of western countries. :facepalm:

Every one of the 6 related articles linked at the foot of the piece is also important. It's worth making a strong pot of coffee and reading everything here. Start with this article coped below in full: it's uncomfortable reading, but absolutely worth the time.

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Hi:

Briefly, I just read this, by an American journalist, on the USA’s use of Nazis, including in Ukraine. Heck, I could have written it. :) Very tellingly, it was published at RT, not in the USA, and when I looked to see if it was first published in the USA, I saw that Reddit almost immediately deleted the link to the article. I think that it is safe to say that that article will never appear in the American media.

Best,

Wade

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America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are the latest in a long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia

From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century

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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was furious when he found out in March 1945 that his supposed World War II ally, Washington, was negotiating with the German Nazis behind his back. In fact, by the accounts of some historians, American spy and future CIA director Allen Dulles essentially kicked off the Cold War when he held secret talks with Waffen SS General Karl Wolff as Hitler's regime was nearing its collapse.

Stalin, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill had agreed that they would accept only unconditional surrender from the Nazis because of the Hitler regime’s monstrous crimes. When the Dulles-Wolff talks came to light, FDR repeatedly and falsely told Stalin that no one was negotiating with the Germans. The Georgian generalissimo was unconvinced and suspected that his Western allies were maneuvering to contain the USSR and occupy territory that might otherwise fall to the Red Army.

The Soviets had reason to be suspicious. Some in Washington, including Dulles, viewed the USSR as America’s biggest long-term threat even as the countries worked together to defeat Germany.

Save the Nazis

As confirmed by documents that were finally declassified more than half a century later, US intelligence agencies were soon to hire upward of 1,000 Nazis as Cold War spies.

By then, America already had a history of finding common cause against Moscow with unseemly allies. As the Soviets remembered well, the US had invaded Russia in 1918 in a failed effort to help overthrow the Bolshevik government. At the time, Washington was allied with White Army counter-revolutionaries, some of whom had a nasty taste for pogroms and other murderous atrocities.

Even as then-President Woodrow Wilson moralized to world leaders about self-determination and opposing external aggression – principles that would be applied only according to US self-interest in the generations ahead – he sent American forces to intervene in the Russian Civil War. He was to set a precedent that has continued to play out to this day, from Germany to Central Asia to the current Ukraine crisis. The pattern was clear: Portray America as the virtuous champion of freedom while working with anyone — however abhorrent their deeds and views might be — as long as they share Washington’s burning desire to hurt Russia.

In 1945, Dulles got his way with Wolff, formerly Heinrich Himmler’s right-hand man. The general and his group of SS officers, which was called the Black Order, agreed to surrender northern Italy to Allied forces. The deal didn’t avail much for the US, coming just six days before the full German surrender, and it sowed seeds of distrust with the Soviets and other allies.

For his part, Wolff was spared the gallows, as the Nuremberg prosecutors mysteriously took him off their list of major war criminals and treated him as a “witness” to Nazi atrocities, rather than a perpetrator, according to historians. Dulles went so far as to send a rescue team to save Wolff when the general’s villa was surrounded by Italian partisans.

US intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the FBI helped whitewash the records of the Nazis they wanted to employ after the war. In other cases, notorious war criminals were hidden from America’s allies. One such useful rogue was Klaus Barbie, who was known as the “Butcher of Lyon” when he was torturing Jews and resistance fighters as a Gestapo officer in Vichy France. He worked as a spy in occupied Germany for the US, and after the French demanded that he be extradited to stand trial as a war criminal, Washington whisked him away to Bolivia in 1951.

As a US investigation finally revealed in 1983, the Americans had lied to their French allies about Barbie’s whereabouts. The US Army paid to have Barbie and other anti-communist agents evacuated from Europe through a “rat line” operated by fascist Croatian priest Krunoslav Draganovic. “Officers of the US government were directly responsible for protecting a person wanted by the government of France on criminal charges and arranging his escape from the law,” US investigator Allan Ryan Jr. said.

In addition to directly employing many Nazis, the CIA reportedly paid millions of dollars to tap a large spy network run by Reinhard Gehlen, who was formerly Hitler’s chief intelligence officer on the Eastern Front. The German general was granted immunity from prosecution for his alleged war crimes and helped some of his Nazi cohorts flee Europe to avoid arrest.

The US government employed Nazis for more than just spying. Over 1,600, including scientists and engineers, were brought to the US under Operation Paperclip to help win the Cold War with their technical skills. For instance, the Pentagon brought rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to America along with his new wife, his parents, and his brother. Von Braun, whose team in Germany used slave labor to build V-2 rockets for Hitler, became a hero of the US space program and was the subject of a Disney movie and a Time magazine cover story.

Not all of the Nazi transplants fared so well. Dr. Konrad Schafer, who was brought to a Texas military base because of his experience in aviation medicine, was sent back to Germany because US military officials were unimpressed by his work. As author Eric Lichtblau wrote in his 2014 book ‘The Nazis Next Door’, the Americans were willing to overlook claims by Nuremberg prosecutors that Schafer had links to medical atrocities, but they couldn’t tolerate his lack of “scientific acumen.”

US vs. Jews

Nazis also found post-war work running some of the very same camps where Jews had been slaughtered under the Third Reich. US Army General George Patton was put in charge of the displaced person (DP) camps in American-occupied areas, such as Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, where Jewish survivors were forcibly kept for weeks or months after their “liberation.”

Some of the same guards who oversaw Hitler’s death camps and the same Nazi doctors who committed medical atrocities staffed DP facilities. Jews were still wearing their striped uniforms and being fed meager rations in the camps.

When they turned to black-market dealing to obtain more food, German police were sent in to crack down at DP facilities in Stuttgart and Landsberg. Earl Harrison, an investigator sent by then-President Harry Truman, found that Patton was “incensed” by the critical report, Lichtblau told NPR in a November 2014 interview. “Harrison and his ilk believe that the displaced person is a human being, which he is not,” the US war hero wrote in his diary. “And this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals.”

Like the Operation Paperclip scientists, many of the CIA’s Nazi spies were moved to the US. These newly minted Americans included the likes of Tscherim Soobzokov, a Circassian from Russia’s Krasnodar area who was nicknamed the Fuhrer of the North Caucasus, and Otto von Bolschwing, a top aide to Adolf Eichmann, who helped craft Nazi policy on dealing with Germany’s “Jewish problem.” Lichtblau quoted a CIA officer as writing, “We will pick up any man who will help us defeat the Soviets – any man, no matter what his Nazi record was.”

Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Nikolay Lebed, who had alleged links to the mass murders of Jews and Poles during the war, was brought to America in 1949. His background was no mystery. The US Army reportedly called him a “well known sadist,” and the CIA codenamed him “Devil.” But he was seen as too valuable as an anti-Soviet operative, so the CIA blocked his deportation when US immigration authorities decided to investigate a few years later. Lebed lived on under US protection, dying at the age of 89 in Pittsburgh.

Useful and not so enemies

The FBI, under director J. Edgar Hoover, also relied on a network of Nazi spies and informants and helped protect them from prosecution and deportation. Laszlo Agh admitted to an FBI agent about his involvement in Hungary’s Arrow Cross, a fascist group that murdered thousands of Jews and helped deport thousands of others.

Agh allegedly tortured many of his victims, forcing some to eat their own feces or jump onto partially buried bayonets. Nevertheless, historians say, Hoover recruited Agh as an anti-communist informant, and when immigration officials finally got around to trying to prosecute and deport the Nazi collaborator for visa fraud, the FBI chief forbid his agent from testifying about what the Hungarian had confessed.

“In choosing to take the low moral ground, Hoover and the FBI betrayed the trust of Americans, living and dead,” wrote historian Richard Rashke, author of ‘Useful Enemies’. The agency’s “conspiracy of silence” in protecting war criminals made Americans “unwitting hypocrites in the eyes of the world,” he added. “How then must Americans judge the cadre of unelected, powerful men who welcomed some of those same murderers to America and helped them escape punishment in the name of national security?”

Hoover also defended Viorel Trifa, who helped lead Romania’s fascist Iron Guard and later became bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America. He became so politically connected that he once led prayers in Congress and met personally with then-Vice President Richard Nixon. Back in Romania, Trifa was sentenced to death in absentia for alleged war crimes. Hoover, who considered Trifa a “very desirable part of the landscape during the Cold War,” persuaded Nixon to cancel a meeting with one of the bishop’s accusers in 1955.

America’s Nazi migrants largely flew under the radar of public exposure until the 1970s, when activists began seeking to hold them accountable. In 1979, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) formed a new unit to investigate and prosecute hidden war criminals for deportation. However, the arms of the federal government that had been doing business with Hitler’s acolytes proved to be a hindrance to the DOJ initiative.

When Soobzokov was indicted for visa fraud in 1979, based on allegations that he had lied about his record as a Waffen SS officer, the CIA suddenly found a copy of a document showing that the Fuhrer of the North Caucasus had disclosed his Nazi past. It turns out that the spy agency had fired Soobzokov not due to his alleged wartime atrocities, but because he hadn’t been honest enough with his handlers. The agency did get him to admit to leading a death squad and executing a troublemaker, but his interviewer believed the Circassian spy was still holding back much of his story.

Author Howard Blum wrote that Soobzokov was a lieutenant in a mobile killing unit that participated in the murders of a staggering 1.4 million Jews on the Eastern Front. But the former SS officer publicly denied any involvement with the Nazis and sued Blum and his publisher, owned by the New York Times, for libel. With witnesses wavering in the wake of Soobzokov’s CIA-aided escape from prosecution – and the author’s documentary evidence being challenged as “Russian disinformation” – the Times chose to pay a $500,000 settlement. The truth only came to light in 2006, more than two decades after Soobzokov’s death, when the CIA declassified 27,000 pages of documents relating to war crimes.

Not all of America’s imported Nazis were brought in by the government. Many snuck in as refugees through a lax immigration system, including some with SS tattoos on their arms. US Representative Elizabeth Holtzman condemned immigration officials for “appalling laxity and superficiality” in trying to root out war criminals.

For example, Andrija Artukovic, a high official in Croatia’s fascist Ustasha government during the war, adopted a fake identity and entered the US on a tourist visa in 1948. Artukovic simply overstayed his visa and worked at a California company owned by his brother. Yugoslavia requested his extradition on war crimes charges in 1951, and US officials stalled for seven years before refusing to send back the illegal alien. By the time he was finally extradited on a new request in 1986, he was 86 years old, so even after he was convicted of mass killings and sentenced to death in Yugoslavia, he was allowed to die of natural causes.

Ukrainian-born Nazi collaborator Jakob Reimer worked as a senior SS guard at a concentration camp in Trawniki, Poland, and allegedly took part in ghetto liquidations. He obtained a US visa in 1952 and managed to avoid a deportation order until 2005, but he died, at age 76, before he could be removed from the US. When confronted in court over his wartime conduct, he reportedly said, “It is all forgotten. It is all over.”

From Nazis to Islamists

America’s pattern of championing virtuous ideals to the rest of the world while partnering with villainous allies against Moscow was on display again in 1979. That’s when the CIA began providing weapons and funding to Islamist rebels in Afghanistan even before Soviet forces invaded the country to prop up the communist government in Kabul.

Then-President Jimmy Carter attacked the USSR’s intervention in Kabul as a “blatant violation of accepted international rules of behavior,” but his administration eagerly and secretly armed jihadists who sought to overthrow Afghanistan’s pro-Soviet government. Ronald Reagan continued the policy after winning the 1980 presidential election.

Peaking at $630 million in 1987 and escalating in sophistication from antiquated rifles to Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, the aid was funneled primarily to radical fighters favored by Pakistan, rather than to the less ideological rebels who had been fighting the government prior to the Soviet invasion.

The Mujahideen fighters and America’s government shared essentially only one common goal: killing Russians. Once Soviet troops finished withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1989, the allies became enemies. Some of the rebels later formed the Taliban, which took over Afghanistan, committed atrocities against civilians and harbored the Al-Qaeda Islamists who allegedly carried out the deadliest terrorist attacks in US history – on September 11, 2001.

Al-Qaeda was also born out of the Afghan conflict. Group leader Osama bin Laden and many of his fighters formerly battled the Soviets with US-supplied arms. The group’s ironic origins gave rise to the nickname 'Al-CIAeda'. But if there was a lesson learned from the deadly fallout, it apparently wasn’t heeded.

The US and its allies backed Islamist rebels again when they tried unsuccessfully to oust the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was backed by Russia. US officials claimed to support only “moderate” rebels, but intentionally or otherwise, American weapons wound up in the hands of jihadist groups such as the al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham. According to the UN, the Syrian Civil War has killed more than 300,000 civilians. The war also turned millions of Syrians into refugees, giving rise to the European migrant crisis.

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Even as Washington was ramping up aid to the Syrian rebels in 2014, President Barack Obama’s administration found time to help overthrow the elected government of Ukraine, led by Viktor Yanukovich. Although Yanukovich said he supported Ukraine eventually joining the European Union, he was viewed as too pro-Russian by the West.

The fact that neo-Nazi militias helped provide the muscle for the violent Euromaidan overthrow – and put down anti-coup demonstrators in the aftermath – was apparently an acceptable collaboration for Washington. When members of the far-right Svoboda Party took several leadership positions in the new government, US officials stood with them – literally, in the case of Senator John McCain, who shared a stage with Oleg Tyagnibok at Kiev’s Independence (Maidan) Square.

Obama’s administration offered no condemnation when at least 48 people were killed and hundreds injured in an attack on anti-Euromaidan protestors in Odessa. Most of the victims were burned to death by a far-right mob when they tried to take shelter in the city’s union hall. Others were shot or beaten when they tried to escape the burning building.

Ukraine’s fascist Right Sector group reacted by celebrating the massacre as “yet another bright page in our fatherland’s history.” Ukrainian MP Lesya Orobets, who had been praised by US media outlet Daily Beast as a “rising star” of the anti-Yanukovych opposition, also celebrated the killings, reportedly calling the Odessa incident a “liquidation” of pro-Russia enemies.

To this day, the perpetrators of the massacre haven’t been held accountable. The Council of Europe concluded in November 2020 that the Kiev government had failed to properly investigate and prosecute those responsible for the killings.

Ukraine has continued to embrace its World War II Nazi collaborators, including Stepan Bandera, who is venerated in public marches. Two years after the coup, one of the main avenues in Kiev was renamed Stepan Bandera Street. Lviv also boasts a Stepan Bandera Street. In the eyes of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis, one of Yanukovich’s sins was his decision to revoke an earlier government declaration honoring Bandera as an official “Hero of Ukraine.”

Ironically, Bandera was considered too “extreme” even for the CIA, which instead chose to work with other Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) leaders, including Lebed and Yaroslav Stetsko. The latter’s writings became the ideological foundation of the Svoboda Party.

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner to the CIA, concluded in September 1945 that Bandera had conducted a “reign of terror” during the war. Nevertheless, the US Army refused to extradite Bandera to the Soviet Union as a war criminal. “American intelligence officials recognized that his arrest would have quick and adverse effects on the future of US operations with the Ukrainians,” according to a CIA document released in 2006.

Ukrainian ‘heroes’

Some US leaders had misgivings about Ukraine’s modern-day Nazis. For instance, Congress voted in March 2018 to ban allowing US military aid for Ukraine to go to the Azov Battalion, many of whose members openly proclaim neo-Nazi ideology. “White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world,” Representative Ro Khanna said at the time. US lawmakers had removed an earlier ban in 2016 at the behest of the Pentagon.

The issue was controversial back then. Major media outlets wrote about Ukraine’s “Nazi problem,” and when the funding ban was repealed in 2016, the Simon Wiesenthal Center blasted Congress, saying the US had “purposely ignored the glorification of Nazi collaborators, the granting of financial benefits to those who fought alongside the Nazis and the systematic promotion of the canard of equivalency between communist and Nazi crimes by these countries because of various political interests.”

Forty US senators signed a letter in 2019 demanding that the Azov Battalion and other far-right groups be designated as terrorist organizations by the State Department.

The Cato Institute, a libertarian Washington think tank, wrote in May 2021 that Ukraine’s “slide into authoritarianism” was accelerating. “It is reckless to treat Ukraine as a US ally on strategic grounds, and it is morally offensive to do so on the basis of alleged democratic solidarity,” Cato senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter said.

However, as the current Ukraine crisis began to bubble up late last year, such concerns were squashed. Last December, the US and Ukraine were the only nations to vote against a United Nations General Assembly resolution “combating [the] glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism” and other practices that fuel racism. Among other provisions that Kiev found objectionable, the resolution called for prohibiting commemorative celebrations of the German Nazis or their collaborators.

Now that Ukrainian forces are fighting Russia, the US and its allies, as well as Western media outlets, are backing Kiev even more uncritically. Biden has framed the conflict as a battle for “democracy and freedom,” even as Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky bans opposition parties, shuts down critical broadcasters and arrests dissenters.

Facebook changed its rules on February 24, the day that Russia’s military offensive began, to allow its nearly three billion users to praise the Azov Battalion. Media outlets softened their portrayals of the militia. For instance, the Washington Post called it a “nationalist outfit,” and the New York Times, which previously referred to the group as “openly neo-Nazi,” began calling it “celebrated.”

The Wall Street Journal whitewashed the group’s Nazi ties while praising the courage of its members. Multiple outlets wrote sympathetically in September about Azov fighters who allegedly faced rough treatment while in Russian captivity, and Business Insider noted that more than $130,000 had been raised for a battalion member who needed money for medical treatment.

The media’s willingness to “conceal Ukraine’s corruption and authoritarianism has grown even worse since the outbreak of war with Russia,” Cato’s Carpenter said in May. “The coverage of the Ukraine war threatens to achieve a new low in media integrity and credibility. When the establishment press whitewashes the behavior of outright neo-Nazis, something is terribly amiss.”

Azov’s image had been so transformed, in fact, that co-founder Giorgi Kuparashvili and five other representatives of the battalion reportedly met with over 50 members of Congress in Washington in September as part of the delegation’s US tour. The group auctioned off Azov patches, featuring the Wolfsangel logo, while visiting a Ukrainian American church in Detroit last month.

Also last month, a Kiev street that was previously named in honor of Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky was officially renamed to celebrate the “heroes” of the Azov Battalion. Among the dignitaries attending the October 26 renaming ceremony was Azov founder Andrey Biletsky, nicknamed the “White Ruler” by fellow neo-Nazis. Malinovsky, a Ukrainian by origin, liberated much of the country from Hitler’s Nazis in 1943-1944 and was twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine’s fascist elements apparently aren’t limited to the fringes of its society, or the fringes of its military. In an October 6 Twitter message, General Valery Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces, posted a photo of himself apparently wearing a bracelet made of tiles emblazoned with swastikas. He later claimed that the bracelet depicted Scandinavian pagan symbols that looked like swastikas because of the image’s digital compression.

However, Nazi symbols have also popped up in photos posted by Zelensky, including an Instagram post showing one of his bodyguards wearing a “Totenkopf” patch. A similar patch, showing a skull and crossbones symbol donned by SS forces in World War II, was also worn by a Ukrainian soldier in another photo posted by Ukraine’s president. Apart from the Nazi imagery used openly by the Azov fighters, regular Ukrainian service members have been photographed wearing SS patches and painting swastikas on their vehicles.

History repeats itself

Such symbols aren’t a concern for the US and its NATO allies. Biden dismissed the claim by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow aimed to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, calling it a “cynical” and “obscene” lie. Like other anti-Russia voices, he has argued that Zelensky’s Jewish ancestry proves that Ukraine doesn’t have Nazi leanings. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov countered that Zelensky “personally patronizes” Kiev’s Nazi tendencies.

Then again, US officials have a long history of situational condemnation of Nazism and of viewing potentially useful villains through a rose-colored lens, especially when anti-Moscow interests are shared. Such was the case when Dulles, the future CIA director, sized up Wolff, the man described by Nuremberg prosecutors as Himmler’s “bureaucrat of death.” The spy leader’s own agency, the OSS, blamed Wolff for the “wholesale slaughter of populations.”

In a telegram cabled back to Washington, Dulles praised the SS bigwig as a “dynamic” and “distinctive personality.” He saw Wolff as handsome and trustworthy, representing a “more moderate element in [the] Waffen SS, with [a] mixture of romanticism.”

A quote cited by Christopher Simpson and other historians might help explain the apparently skewed mindset of Dulles and other US intelligence officials in how they viewed Nazis and Nazi collaborators. “We knew what we were doing,” said Harry Rositzke, who ran the CIA’s Soviet division in Munich from 1951 to 1954. “It was a visceral business of using any bastard as long as he was anti-communist.”

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U.S.-Russian Intelligence Chiefs Discuss Ukraine

Earlier today the Russian news outlet Kommersant reported on U.S.-Russian negotiations in Turkey (machine translation):

As it became known to "Kommersant", today, November 14, negotiations between the Russian and American delegations are taking place in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin flew to Ankara from the Russian side.
This meeting has not been publicly announced before. The source has so far declined to provide details of the talks.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that he could neither confirm nor deny the information about the talks in Ankara.

The last time the Russian and American delegations met in Geneva was on January 10 for talks on security guarantees. The lack of practical results of the January negotiation process is often seen as a diplomatic prerequisite for the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine.

The U.S. counterpart of Sergei Naryshkin is CIA director Bill Burns.

The negotiations have long been requested by Russia:

In the last month, the volley of calls for negotiation from Putin has intensified. On September 30, Putin called on Kiev “to return back to the negotiating table.” On October 11, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia "was willing to engage with the United States or with Turkey on ways to end the war." Two days later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow is “open to negotiations to achieve our objectives." On October 26, Putin sent a message to Zelensky through President Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau, saying that “He wishes and thinks that a direct dialogue should happen between your two countries.” On October 30, Lavrov said that Russia is “ready to listen to our Western colleagues if they make another request to organize a conversation" as long as Russia’s security needs were considered. And on November 1, Putin said that “necessary conditions” could arise that would be a catalyst to talks.
On the U.S. side only one voice had recently publicly urged to start negotiations:

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to US officials, Milley “has made the case in internal meetings that the Ukrainians have achieved about as much as they could reasonably expect on the battlefield before winter sets in and so they should try to cement their gains at the bargaining table.”

The top US general has made no secret of his stance. “When there’s an opportunity to negotiate, when peace can be achieved, seize it,” Milley declared in a public speech this week.

At the end of last week the Wall Street Journal reported that more members of the Biden administration agreed with that position:

As Ukraine Retakes Kherson, U.S. Looks to Diplomacy Before Winter Slows Momentum
American arms are flowing, but officials in Washington question how much territory either side can win Ukrainian cities including Kyiv have turned off streetlights to conserve energy after Russian attacks on power plants.

Senior U.S. officials have begun nudging Kyiv to start thinking about peace talks in the event winter stalls its momentum, following Ukraine’s recapture of Kherson in one of its most stunning triumphs of the war.
The imminent onset of winter—coupled with fears of inflation spurred by mounting energy and food prices, the billions of dollars of weaponry already pumped into Ukraine, and the tens of thousands of casualties on both sides—has prompted talk in Washington of a potential inflection point in the war, now in its ninth month.

Fact is that the 'west' is running short of ammunition it can deliver to Ukraine. That is why the U.S. is buying 100,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition from South Korea:

“Negotiations are ongoing between the US and Korean companies to export ammunition, in order to make up for the shortage of 155mm ammunition inventories in the US,” the ministry said. The Pentagon said in a statement it has been “in discussion” about “potential sales” of ammunition by the US from South Korea.
But statements from South Korea and the US make clear that the deal, which has been in the works for months, has not yet been finalized. The purchase of such a large supply of artillery ammunition is highly sensitive for South Korea, especially given the recent missile launches and weapon tests conducted by North Korea.

To call 100,000 artillery rounds a 'large supply' is a joke. It is less than what the Russian army expenses in two days.

The 'west' currently no longer has the industrial capacity to make the products that are needed in a long high intensity war. It could rebuild that capacity but that would require a huge amount of money and long term commitments to buy significant amounts of such products.

Without a steady resupply of huge amounts of ammunition the Ukrainian army is done.

The Biden administration has now confirmed that CIA head Burns has met with Naryshkin. But it is lying about the content of the talks:

William J. Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, met with his Russian counterpart in Turkey on Monday to warn Russia against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, a White House spokesman said.
The National Security Council said Mr. Burns’s meeting in Ankara was not in any way meant to negotiate or to discuss any settlement of the war in Ukraine. Ukraine was briefed in advance on the trip, the spokesman said.

President Biden has insisted that Ukraine, and not the United States, will dictate if and when negotiations commence to end the war.

Russia has not threatened to use nuclear weapons. There is no reason for it to do so and many good reason to refrain from using them. It would foremost alienate China and other Russian allies. It was in fact the U.S. which planted nuclear scare stories in another of its attempts to smear Russia. The U.S. of course knows that there is no danger that Russia would use nukes and it is likely that Burns did not even mention them.

There are enough other problems. The electricity situation in Ukraine is getting worse as the weather gets colder. Some 40% to 50% of the 330 kilovolt network is down and more of it will fail.

What the U.S. needs is more time for Ukraine to repair damage and for the production and delivery of more weapons and ammunition. It needs a pause in the war. It may well hope for a kind of ceasefire during the winter. It is highly likely that Burns went to Ankara to talk about that.

Sure, the Biden administration has no interest in ending the war. It is setting up a headquarter in Germany where a three star general and his headquarter staff will direct the U.S. efforts in its, for now, proxy war against Russia. The claim is that the new command will be responsible for supplying Ukraine. That is unlikely to be true:

The Pentagon puts a 3 Stars General in Charge of War Operations — not Inventory. And you do not need a Headquarters Staff of 300 to do an Audit. It’s a War Headquarters Staff. We are going to war against Russia unless the American People can figure out some way to stop it!
The headquarter means that the U.S. is planing for a very long and bigger war.

NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg has said that a Russian victory in the conflict in Ukraine would be a defeat for NATO and that it can not allow such an outcome.

If you can not allow something to happen that is already mostly assured you will have to do something very serious to prevent that outcome. NATO is not united enough to go to war. But the chances for a direct conflict are growing by the day. It will be left to U.S. and some east European countries to send their own troops into Ukraine.

The U.S. public is not yet ready for such a step and it will take more time to get to that point.

It is another reason why the U.S. would like to pause the war for now. But Russia is unlikely to fall for such a scam. A ceasefire would allow the Ukrainian military to regain some strength and to build up more defensive lines.

After its mobilization of reservists in September Russia will soon have the forces available that are necessary to breach the Ukrainian front lines to then storm through and attack deep behind those lines. As soon as the ground freezes it will be ready to go. Any pause now would make a later move more difficult.

There will be no ceasefire now but the talks are good anyway. Both sides should do there best to keep them going.

Russia has asked for a lot: a pullback of NATO to its 1997 position, four parts of Ukraine to become parts of Russia, a guarantee that Ukraine will never join NATO. The U.S. is certainly not willing to commit to those steps - at least not yet.

It will need time and many more talks for the U.S. to come to its senses and to make the necessary concessions to end the conflict.

It will also require the defeat of the Ukrainian military, and anyone who joins it, on the battle field. Russia can do that if it concentrates on that effort.




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