Peace was never an option
Peace was never an option. The Russia-Ukraine war was plotted out over a decade ago by people unassociated with either nation. The Plot to Seize Russia explains everything in detail. Yeltsin handed Putin the reins to protect Russia from the oligarchs. The West installed Zelensky to quietly control Ukraine and position it for battle. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the Minsk Agreement was a lie, an appeasement to pass time to allow Ukraine to build its military.
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The headlines continue to spit out propaganda—peace is not an option. Peace IS an option for Russia, and perhaps Ukraine, but the neocon elite simply will not allow the war to end. Zelensky seemed willing to accept a peace deal in 2022, but the UK’s Boris Johnson promptly talked him out of accepting the deal.
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War is a great way to default on debts. You get to form a new government, and they always disavow the debts of the previous government. Europe has been committing economic suicide. Between the COVID-19 Lockdowns, the NET-ZERO Climate Change, and then the sanctions on Russia that doubled their fuel costs, you could not ask for a more brain-dead group of politicians who have ZERO comprehension of even how the economy functions.
www.armstrongeconomics.com - Britain’s Foreign Secretary Insists Putin Rebukes Peace
The spike in AWOL [Absent without leave] and desertion comes as Ukraine faces a deepening infantry shortage on the front line, allowing Russian troops to probe and advance in thinly manned sectors. Ukrainian officials have begun publicly acknowledging the scale of the problem: New Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said in his Jan. 14 appointment speech that 200,000 soldiers are currently AWOL.
In October 2025, the number of AWOL and desertion cases reached a record 21,602, Ihor Lutsenko, a former lawmaker who serves in the military, said, citing the Prosecutor General's Office.
kyivindependent.com - Inside Ukraine's AWOL and military desertion crisis
