Expect More Widening of the Ukraine Conflict by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2022-12-09 at 03:06:49 )

Expect More Widening of the Ukraine Conflict by Paul Craig Roberts!

An Inflexible President Putin indicates he is sticking with his go-slow war that results in ever more Western participation. In rare comments on the status of the war, President Putin admitted it would likely be a "long process." "please read here:"

Does President Putin realize that by needlessly prolonging the conflict he is not only causing unnecessary Russian casualties, but also he could be putting his leadership in danger?

Many Russians believe that President Putin is making Russia look foolish by inability to bring the conflict to a victorious close. This might also affect recruitment.

There is no pride for youth to be in a military force that does not defeat a third world country like Ukraine. Considerations of this sort together with the ability a prolonged conflict gives Washington,D.C. to expand Western participation in the Ukraine conflict, while building up NATO forces on Russias borders, raise serious questions about the wisdom, if any, of President Putins go-slow limited military intervention.

Playing a goody two-shoes role at the expense of your own country does not make sense. Does President Putin understand that he cannot simultaneous be at war with Ukraine and protect Ukraine??

President Putin seems to be extremely gullible when it comes to dealing with the West. If the West would let him, he would be continuing to supply them with oil and gas even as he is at war with them.

Former German Chancellor Merkel has just admitted that the West easily deceived President Putin by pretending to go along with the Minsk Agreement, using it as a ploy to deter any Russian response to the murder of Donbass Russians until the West had built up the Ukraine military.

Those 8 years President Putin spent being fooled has made the conflict in Ukraine far different from what it would have been in 2014. Ms Merkel said the Minsk agreement was "an attempt to give Ukraine time. Ukraine used this time to get stronger, as you can see today. The Ukraine of 2014-15 is not the Ukraine of today. As you saw in the battle for Debaltseve in early 2015, President Putin could easily have overrun them at the time. And I very much doubt that the NATO countries could have done as much then as they do now to help Ukraine." "please read here:"

Ukraines post-coup United States installed president, Pyotr Poroshenko, confirms Ms Merkels admission. RT reports: "Pyotr Poroshenko, who became president of Ukraine after the 2014 United States-backed coup in Kiev, told a domestic audience in August 2015 that Minsk was a ruse to buy time for a military build-up. He admitted as much to the West in July 2022, in an interview with German media."

Having wasted 8 years relying on peace diplomacy spurned by Washington,D.C., President Putin then took half-way measures when Russian success required a quick and complete victory to prevent Washington,D.C.s involvement. Consequently, the problems for Russia have multiplied with an ever widening war leading, as President Putin warns, to nuclear war.

Yet President Putin sticks with a policy that has not worked for 8 years, a policy that plays into the hands of Washington,D.C.s neoconservatives.

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