There are many rational and pragmatic reasons for ending the Ukraine War. However, is a personal affinity with Putin contributing to Trump’s desire to end the war and improve US-Russia ties?
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/what-do-trump-and-putin-really-have
Jeffrey Sachs: Peace Negotiations & the End of NATO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BljAmYrjn08
The Arctic has become a key frontline in the great power rivalry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFc7PxY7l8Y&t=22s
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-us-russia-negotiations
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Trump:
- Putin has respect for America
- Russia has surrounded thousands of Ukrainian troops
- Ukraine should not have picked on someone much more powerful
Prof. David Gibbs: Neoconservatism and the Weaponization of Human Rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcIXoZh1mTU&t=3706s
Decriminalising Diplomacy: When War Is Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPIj-Rr3abA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqSztEQprgg&t=3047s
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Did Trump deceive the Russians or Zelensky and the Europeans? What to make of the ceasefire agreement between the US and Ukraine
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/ceasefire-without-political-settlement
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/collapse-of-kursk-narratives-versus
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Collapse of the Kursk Frontline: When Narratives Meet Reality
- Kursk was intended to be a narrative victory, instead it became a narrative trap as Zelensky had to send his best soldiers into the cauldron and could not withdraw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPjBlwbWKyc&t=119s
Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Civilians Massacred in Syria & the EU Blames the Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwky5BH5gCs
The Kursk cauldron is collapsing faster than expected. There are reports of a disorganised withdrawal with high casualties and large groups of Ukrainian soldiers being left behind
- This was predictable (as I have warned about in articles and interviews), but to be "pro-Ukrainian" in Europe entails obligatory and uncritical support for destructive PR stunts, not counting losses, and chant for continued war
In a multipolar system, the decision to bring conflict into the Arctic is punished as more reliable partners take over the business
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/cooperation-and-conflict-in-the-arctic
Trump and Putin Will Speak On Tuesday to Discuss Peace in Ukraine - Prof. Glenn Diesen on WION
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How was diplomacy criminalised as immoral, while war was celebrated as virtuous?
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/criminalizing-diplomacy-when-war
Russian Representative to the UN: Diplomacy with the US & the Ceasefire Proposal
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/russian-representative-to-the-un
Realism vs idealism:
- Taking NATO expansion off the table was denounced as immoral amd unacceptable. Hundreds of thousands of deaths later, and NATO expansion is now off the table
- Idealism sells morality as ignoring power politics, resulting in tragedy
- The people who pushed for expansion still insist that their position was moral despite the predictable horror they unleashed
JD Vance: Europe is engaging in Civilisational suicide
- A new world view is embraced: The world is not divided between liberalism and authoritarianism, but between globalism and conservatism
Europe and Israel Decline & Fragment
- Alastair Crooke, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/europe-and-israel-decline-and-fragment
Col. Jacques Baud: The Origin and Solution to the Ukraine War
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/col-jacques-baud-the-origin-and-solution
MIT Professor and Pentagon advisor Ted Postol presents the threat of nuclear war that is increasingly ignored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbJg8bb4Dg
While the EU blames the victims, the US and Russia find themselves yet again on the same side in condemning the atrocities in Syria
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/civilians-massacred-in-syria-and
Has NATO Supported or Destroyed Ukraine's Sovereignty?
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/has-nato-supported-or-destroyed-ukraines
John J. Mearsheimer: Are you seeing the end of NATO?
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/the-us-push-for-peace-and-europe
The invasion of Kursk was good for PR in the West to boost the war enthusiasm, but it came at incredible costs as Ukraine suffered huge casualties
- Russia is now closing the pocket ahead of possible negotiations
