The End of the Ukraine Conflict?

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Looks like it's all coming to a head:

Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator' as rift between two leaders deepens

Technically the Orange Hooligan may be correct but electing dictators in wartime is a tradition that dates back to the Roman Republic. Anyhoo, the players have been forced to line up and it seems to be America and Russia vs. the rest of NATO and Ukraine

If I were Trump I'd point out to the Ukrainians that much as they'd like the eastern half of their country back it's full of ethnic Russians anyway and would probably be a massive pain in the arse to look after. Then again, it's hard to explain that when you don't fucking invite them to the negotiating table! A diplomatic move equivalent to scraping some shit off your shoe before setting foot in Riyadh

No movement from the Russians is likely. Strategically they'll want to hold onto all the oblasts joining up Russia to Crimea otherwise they'll just keep fighting. They might keep going another year but after that Russia will entirely collapse, politically and economically. Fun to watch, pop it in your diary, until you consider amongst the chaos is a stockpile of nuclear weapons

So Russian won't budge, Ukraine can't join NATO, no one wants any foreign so-called peace keepers hanging about, how to keep the peace?

The killer move would be for Trump to say to Putin: "fine, keep what you have but you have to give Ukraine back their nuclear weapons."
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I'm not sure about that unless Russia goes nuclear.

I really thought they would steamroller through Ukraine but it hasn't happened.
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It's not that simple, especially as it's more than twice the size of the UK.

Also the Special Military Operation (SMO) is designed to:

*Lose as few Ruskies as possible, so as to not upset the civies.
*Utilize cost effective weaponry to designated targets.
*Cost as little as possible, which means at this rate they can go on forever.

They also assumed the majority of UKRs, were against what their puppet government were doing for the 8 years before the invasion, because they're mostly of Russian descent.

Also note that all politicians are still being given access to Ukraine, some this that would never be allowed in a full blown war.

It has to be noted that many inhabitants refuse to leave their dwellings, and retire to the cellars to wait it out. If they are unlucky enough to be seen by the retreating UKRs, they are either shot as collaborators when they answer the knock on the door, or the house is blown up, or set alight.

Many of the buildings that are used by the retreating UKRs, who upon leaving them, leave behind IED's in the form of booby traps, so advancing Ruskies have to be extremely careful every step of the way, and every house and every cellar has to be checked. In a big city like Mariupol, Bakmut, Pokrovsk, etc, this all takes time.

Quite often the UKR's go on the offensive locally and push the Ruskies out of any newly capture territory, but this is usually short lived, as the Ruskies retreat to save on casualties, and send in the khinzals, TOS-1A/2 FABs and drones, before retaking it.

You can watch all this unfolding on Weeb Union (on YT) who does a 5~10 min map update every day.

On Telegram, such channels as:
InfoDefenseEnglish
Two Majors English Channel
Murat-SAN for both Ukranian and Russian video/cams (NSFW)
The Duran (for the political aspects and analysis)

Would keep you updated, with the real news.

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