[Right_Wing_Madman]

Lavrov said today: “This war will be decided on the battlefield.”

It doesn't feel like there will be a Minsk III. The neocons in Washington win every internal ideological battle and the Russians have shown zero interest in a deal since the Istanbul negotiations failed in March-April 2022.

[hardspunned]

“Russians have shown zero interest in a deal since the Istanbul negotiations failed in March-April 2022.”

That’s totally false. The Russians are talking about the need to negotiate daily. You could not be more wrong in your statement. Washington is 100% the party that derails the talks just as DC quashed the peace deal negotiated spring of ‘22. Of course, after NATO admitted the Minsk Accord was a sham to begin with, Russia won’t be so easily taken in this time. Minsk was only used by NATO to stall for enough time to build up the Uke war machine to attack Russia. Russia just beat the liars at NATO to the punch.

[Reverend Wright]

I’m not sure.

This war has exposed a lot of Western weapons as expensive duds. And the industrial base has been revealed as inadequate as well.

I think the “Pivot to China” will be cancelled. If they can’t keep Ukraine afloat, there is no way they can take on China.

The economic sanctions have also failed, and have triggered a much more aggressive BRICs effort to find a replacement for the $US.

All in all, a big foreign policy disaster for the Regime.