Window of Opportunity for Peace is Closing - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

Kiev Admits Pokrovsk Crisis Defence Collapses Troops Trapped; Putin Donbass Ultimatum EU Kiev Say NO
Topic 1708

Putin Budapest FLIGHT; Bulgaria YES, Poland NO. Trump, Ukraine will NOT win. EU will seize ASSETS
Topic 1852

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

The Trump administration's Ukraine 'policy' - if it can be dignified with that name - is descending into chaos, with a telephone conversation between Lavrov and Rubio described initially as 'constructive' now spoken of as a 'disaster', and with a summit meeting in Budapest which Trump himself almost certainly proposed alternatively on and off again, so that the Hungarians are now anxiously trying to find out what is actually going on.

Trump himself seems not to know his own policy, agreeing with Putin in Alaska that a ceasefire is unworkable and saying so in writing, telling Zelensky on Friday to withdraw from Donbass or be 'destroyed', and then just hours later appearing to call off a summit with Putin because the Russians won't agree to the very ceasefire he agreed with them in Alaska was unworkable.

I know there are some people who see some strategy here. I am finding it increasingly impossible to do so. To me it looks more like the bewildered responses of a confused old man in a...