If you look at the news about the course of the non-existent Ukraine “peace talks”, you’ll see a pattern. Russia and the US guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty and its borders. In return, Ukraine gave up its nukes.
Russia’s sneak attack in 2014 took over the Crimean Peninsula, a part of Ukraine. The US imposed sanctions, but that was all. In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and has been badly beaten in one of the worst defeats in military history.
In 2025, things are very different. The US is in catastrophic meltdown. Russia is a gigantic mess. These two decaying senile ex-superpowers still seem to think they run the world.
Russia is trying to hold on to whatever’s left of its pride. That’s not working either. The US doesn’t even have a clear goal for itself.
In the total absence of a recognizable or even slightly plausible America, peace talks have been held with everyone but the Ukrainians. The negotiations, therefore, can’t be considered to be in good faith. The Ukrainians said in 2022 that they want the restoration of the 2014 borders. They have stated that fact many times. Crimea is not negotiable.
This disgusting, imbecilic waste of time on unacceptable terms has produced precisely nothing. Nor is the situation on the ground getting a mention. The Donbas is a huge, contaminated wasteland requiring a massive cleanup to be safely inhabited, regardless of negotiations. The cleanup will cost billions.
We’ll leave out the bit about Russia’s evaporating economy and the US inability in the most basic facets of its government of itself. East of the Urals, “Russia” is more like “China”. Chinese money is the only thing propping up the east.
US revenue may not survive this year and is clearly in the process of heading to utter chaos. That’ll make the most basic things impossible soon enough even on the domestic level, let alone internationally.
Nor is there much sympathy for the two rotting gargoyles that used to be Russia and America. There are 8 billion people on this planet who don’t need the insanity. Russia and America combined are about 500 million people.
When did you two geriatric clowns have more rights than anyone else?
America’s allies had already had far more than enough of the bluster and tantrums in the first Trump term. King Donald the Last means nothing to anybody.
America’s reputation has been assassinated in the process. Russia’s credibility is long since buried with the poor fools who died in Ukraine.
You have to pay for wars. Credit ratings might end this war. Russia’s rating is C, which is basically junk, and the US rating is AA+, although that’s very likely to change. Borrowing is very expensive in Russia, at around 20%. Depending on the next insanity, US rates may turn into payday loans.
No money equals no war. With any luck, it might also force the US to focus on its own disasters rather than creating disasters for other countries.
We have two ridiculous, delirious, failed states trying to negotiate a peace. Wonder how that’s likely to work out? Nope.
Failure is failure, and these two fossilized insults to humanity should realize that.
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