pcr isn't confident about a cease fire arrangement;

Is Putin Being Boxed In by Trump and Zelensky

Paul Craig Roberts

Trump and Zelensky have agreed on a cease fire, a pause in the conflict.  How does this benefit Russia?

It doesn’t.  The Ukrainian military is collapsing on all fronts. 86% of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk has been retaken, and the remaining Ukrainian forces are surrounded.  What remains of the Ukrainian military is retreating from the few kilometers of Russian territory still occupied in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions that have been reincorporated into Russia.  A cease fire is the last thing Russia needs when Russia is on the verge of total victory.

Russia should be imposing surrender terms on Zelensky, Trump, and Europe.  Russia has won the conflict.  Why agree to a negotiation?  The victor dictates the surrender terms. If Russia’s surrender terms are not accepted, Russia should proceed with the conquest of the entirety of Ukraine and reincorporate Ukraine into Russia where it historically belongs.  It was Washington  taking advantage of the Soviet collapse that cut out Ukraine from its historic multi-century home as part of Russia.

Are Putin and Lavrov too besotted with good will toward the West, which has been trying to destroy Russia, to understand the basics?  Does Putin understand that Trump should first have come to him, worked out the terms of surrender between them, and imposed them on Zelensky, who in fact is not a legitimate head of government as his term in office has expired?  Putin is correct.  There needs to be a Ukrainian election that installs a legal government  to whom to dictate the terms of surrender. What is the worth of a document signed by an illegal occupant of office?.........more........