the only thing the empire will respect according to pcr is total, full on, defeat, and i agree; 

 

Pusillanimity Brings War, Not Peace

Paul Craig Roberts

The naive and gullible men in the Kremlin were deceived by the Alaska agreement just as they were by the Minsk agreement.  If they had read Trump’s Art of the Deal they would have learned how Trump was going to manipulate them.

It was totally clear to me in 2014 when Putin sat stupidly on his butt and permitted Washington to overthrow the Ukrainian government and install an anti-Russian Washington puppet that Russian inaction was leading to war. When Putin was forced into conflict with Ukraine by Washington and Europe eight years later, it was totally obvious that Putin’s slow-moving, restricted Special Military Operation would provide Washington and NATO ample time to get more and more involved and that the conflict that Putin thought could be limited to Donbas would widen and widen.  And that is precisely what has happened.  

Putin and Lavrov have  said that Washington/NATO intend to turn Ukraine’s conflict with Russia into a war on Russia by the West.  Despite finally acknowledging the reality that has been completely clear for 12 years, Putin still refuses to use the decisive force necessary to bring the conflict to a victorious end and stop the widening of the conflict.  Putin is focused on gaining another kilometer in Donbas while Ukrainian drone attacks deep inside Russia increasingly disrupt Russian life and energy production and result in civilian casualties.

Having by his own inaction permitted the Ukraine conflict to widen out of control, Putin told military cadets in June that Russia’s nuclear forces will be strengthened and the fighting ability of the military improved in expectation of a war with Europe.  ............more...........