https://unofficialbird.com/bidetmarxman/status/1621452328569307142#m
Somewhat overshadowed by yesterday’s “Chinese spy balloon” hysteria was the revelation that the CIA has recently been trying to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine that involves offering 20% of Ukraine to Russia.
Both Kyiv and Moscow rejected the deal but it does raise an interesting question: why might “high-ranking German foreign politicians” have leaked this?
One possibility is that a faction within the German government is rebelling against the continued subjugation of the German economy for the furtherance of US geopolitical objectives.
If so, the leaking of the US-backed deal can be seen as an attempt to embarrass the Biden admin by exposing the vast chasm between their public rhetoric and their private actions and intentions.
Leaking this attempted deal would also perfectly highlight the fantasy of Ukraine as a sovereign state, when a country on the other side of the world supplies all the weapons to extend the conflict while also drawing up the terms of your surrender.
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Funnily enough, a few hours after the Newsweek article was published, the White House issued a statement calling the existence of the offer “not accurate”.
As the old saying goes, never believe anything until it has been officially denied!
I don't see what the US would gain from a peace deal where Putin ends up with every single one of his military objectives accomplished.
cut their losses and not go on lending military equipment to a country that no longer has the ability to pay back their loans
That's literally the whole point of the war and ain't no way the Ghouls are backing off so easily.
I thought the point of the war was to destroy nordstream, diplomatically isolate Russia from Germany and other EU countries that were dependent on cheap energy from them, get those EU countries hooked on American liquid natural gas, and get a bunch of slavic people from former soviet countries to kill each other for no good reason. In that regard, the war's goals have largely been achieved.
Nato's goals: Keep America in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.
The longer this war is ongoing the more China and Russia have been making geopolitical gains. America probably wants it ended because it sees hegemony ticking away slowly
A BIT late for that...
To be fair we don't know what the proposed peace deal said about Russia's non-tertitorial objectives, like the denazification and demilitarisation of the Ukraine that are as important to Russian national security as territorial gains.
Last ditch attempt to ensure a full fascist dictatorship takeover of Ukraine, ensuring that they stay a puppet of the USA for a little while longer.