Dictator Zelensky, in preparation for the Putin–Trump summit in Alaska , will do anything together with the European leadership to have the talks fail , and he still believes Ukraine can win this fight with the help of grandfathers (to make up for desertions ). Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, cast the push as an attempt to shape the narrative at the Trump-Putin summit, showing that "Russia is advancing while Ukraine is losing ground" in the hope Mr Trump will back Putin's terms . That may be true, but it does not change the reality on the ground. Ukrainian concertgoers in Kharkiv. Despite the city's proximity to Russia, life can seem almost normal - Eduardo Soteras/The Telegraph. "The entire defense line is like a sieve," wrote Stansislav Bunyatov, a Ukrainian serviceman and blogger, a sentiment echoed by Borden Krotevhych, former chief of the Azov Brigade. Against the public's will and simply converting money into ammunition that explodes in his own face. Ukraine, without massive Western troops, will lose this war, and who supplies troops other than the US army? The EU may send uniformed people, but not warriors for a ground slaughter.
When people like General Keane represent the old Cold War theories, the world has changed. This is a conflict that started in 1990 with never-ending NATO expansion and escalated into a war in 2022 with the help of a demented US president, the neocons, and a puppet called Zelensky—none of them willing to negotiate. Here is a map that shows the desperation of Ukraine losing ground. All the US media still offers is "Ukraine has a chance." The best was a Boris Johnson interview— the one loser of Europe. Like it or not, the US–Russia summit will get a framework (the West needs Russia away from BRICS) for cooperation, and ultimately, the red regions in the map will be autonomous regions—mostly Russians anyhow—and the west of Ukraine, well, the AZOV base can align with the EU. The hype about Russia invading Europe is like claiming Stalin started the war against Germany in 1942 with the counteroffensive. Operation Barbarossa , the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had begun brilliantly on June 22, 1941. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/hitler-vs-stalin-how-russia-defeated-nazi-germany-gates-moscow-47577 Encirclement after encirclement had inflicted almost 4 million casualties on the huge but disorganized Soviet armies. By early October, they had advanced to within 200 miles of Moscow. Now came Operation Typhoon, the offensive to seize the Soviet capital and—or so the Germans hoped—end the campaign.
Here is a recap of key dates (you need to translate, and it is a Russian view—if interested, read some of the comments as well) —just in case, the war did not start in 2022 but after 1945. And the US "special interests": Washington elites – of both parties – are clutching their pearls at the prospect of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska. "He's Putin's stooge!" scream Trump Derangement Syndrome Democrats. "He'll betray Ukraine to get a deal!"
Scream the forever war Republican Neocons. "He'll abandon America First and get us embroiled in Europe's problem!" scream the isolationists in the Republican Party. Hopefully he ticks right —no more war is the most important. Just in: it looks that the initial meeting in Alaska was a start, and the mistrust is on both sides. The US media, for crying "democracy is at stake" for so long, looks like defending Europe now from a Russian invasion. What they are defending rhetorically is a failure to integrate Russia into Europe. Putin is a KGB man, yes; Bush the Elder was a CIA man. That is where the Cold War ended, but obviously George Junior and all the followers changed the tune. Perhaps for Dick Cheney , still the leader of the warmongers—Liz certainly gave her best to remove Trump. Next to Victoria Nuland, Anne Applebaum might be one of the biggest nonsense voices. Here is Dick Cheney's vision of a break-up Russia (translate). For centuries and to this day, by far the largest multi-ethnic entity is Russia. More than 190 nations, peoples, ethnicities and tribes live between the Baltic Sea and the Pacific on the territory of the Russian Federation – from the titular nation of the Russians to the Tatars, Bashkirs, Evenks, Koreans, Germans and the Tas, of whom just 274 people lived in the Primorye region on the Sea of Japan, according to the last census of 2020.
Hydropower —a resource still available and sustainable—and other than irrigation , it is actually not water theft but use of it. There are certainly environmental issues, but compared to any other energy source, it has the third-lowest CO2 footprint. China has just announced a new project that should basically eliminate the need for foreign energy—see the scope, only one word: gigantic. The $167 billion facility will require digging tunnels that plunge through high mountains to harness the power of a river that sharply descends through the deepest and possibly longest canyon on the planet.
For a global view of hydropower, here you have it as a map, and here in a table , but perhaps China with its wind, solar, and hydro might be the most sustainable in the long future. Here is an interactive map for all resources. And where does China get its oil from ?
Over the past few decades, China has steadily and dramatically increased its oil imports as well as its refining capacity. As a result, China is now the world's largest importer and second-largest refiner of oil, helping reshape global energy markets. So as long as the big project is not online, China will buy Russian oil and gas.
