patrick.net

Yup. The article demonstrates the mad, foolish, an extraordinarily corrupt, incompetent and bumbling Globalist decision making governance compared to Russian determination. Russia has no reason, after spilling so much blood on both sides, to stop now until the entire Black Sea corridor and greater Donbas are secured. At that point, landlocked Ukraine will wilt and crumble.

Russia is ruled by hard headed, pragmatic nationalists, and we are ruled by delusional madmen drunk with unsupported megalomania.

We need to get our own country back to pragmatic nationalism and purge these vicious fools and their puppets.

It was obvious from the beginning that Russia had no intention of occupying the Ukraine. It would take about 2 million army personnel to occupy a country with the population of Ukraine. Russia attacked with about 190k ground troops.

I believe what Russia wanted was a quick defeat of the Ukrainian armed forces and a puppet government installed where there would be no NATO or NATO weapons, water rights for Crimea and autonomous areas in Donblass.

The Ukrainians put up a better fight than anticipated. Russia dealt with the sanctions imposed by the West admirably and has slowly but steadily imposed economic penalties back on Europe.

I believe Russia and continental Europe at this point would like a negotiated settlement with an arrangement about what Russia was striving for in the first place. Europeans have dealt with increased energy costs and inflation but now they are looking at doing without things such as electricity altogether for portions of the EU. Large sections of the EU economy could simply shut down. I am not certain the Western European governments would be able to stand the havoc this would cause.

If the UK and the US are successful in extending the conflict for what would appear to be a number of years, Russia would be defeated and would have to negotiate from a position of extreme weakness.

Yeah looks like support in Europe for the !woar! is fading quickly and favoring swift peace negotiations instead, and some sort of settlement/agreement moving forward.

mell says

swift peace negotiations

Agreement should be definitely signed in Munich.

Russia will just take what it decided to take and defend the new borders. That's about the extent of any negotiation.

They have already diminished the chains of money laundering, because the black ops usages in the West are becoming more discretionary, thank goodness.

The tax/launder print/launder stuff isn't going down so well. Laundering through Ukraine, laundering through the inflated stock market etc. At some point, the fiat ponzi will collapse and everybody will have to go back to some kind of asset backed currency and hopefully the paper printing started in 1972 with fiat currency will also collapse. It's going to be a rough ride, but appears inevitable.

This adds a whole new meaning to 'friendly fire'. I guess the Russians just have to fool Ukrops into shooting each other.

"Ukraine Leader Declares “We Will Definitely Win!”—Russia Then Wipes Out His General Staff"
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=201805
"“We will definitely hold out!...We will definitely win!”—all of which are examples of Western colonial lunacy joined today by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) revealing that Kalibr cruise missiles fired from Russian warships wiped out the Ukrainian General Staff, and whose exact statement reads: “Russian Kalibr missiles attacked a command post of Ukrainian troops near the village of Shirokaya Dacha in the Dnipropetrovsk region...As a result of the strike, more than 50 generals and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, including the General Staff”."

HunterTits says

Perhaps the most ominous aspect of this plan is the Russian willingness to wait years, if necessary, to enact it fully—even if a seemingly durable truce delays progress toward that goal with a prolonged pause in military operations. The First Chechen War, in the mid-1990s, did not end in Russian victory. That came later, and only after a debacle that saw Russian troops suffer a humiliating defeat in the second Battle of Grozny in August 1996, when groups of well-coordinated Chechen insurgents infiltrated the city and cut off Russian units trapped inside. The blunders of the first month of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were strikingly similar to those of its initial two-year campaign in Chechnya. Back then, we saw the same absurd political expectations of no resistance—Russia’s then–defense minister, Pavel Grachev, famously claimed that he could take Grozny in two hours with a single airborne regiment—and the same phenomenon of confused, demoralized Russian s...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-has-a-plan-for-ukraine-it-looks-like-chechnya/ar-AAYCXTH

I don't think Russia today is much like Russia of the mid 1990's was. The USSR had just dissolved 3 years before. To get into any position, you had to be a good ideological communist up until December 26, 1991 so instead of having competent people in charge, they had LOYAL people in charge, who could be complete idiots, totally corrupt, absolute morons - all that mattered is that they promoted and accepted the ideology. This sound familiar at all to you?

Russia doesn't face that problem I don't think at this point, they HAD to go into merit based recruitment of everybody for everything, to survive.

The US has that problem now.



Do you not realize that's OUR problem now? You think these assholes get their jobs because they happen to be the best possible people for the job, despite their bizarre and unique "behaviors"? I wouldn't mind if these people WERE hired based on their excellence, but you goddamned know they aren't.

Imagine how much better J. Edgar Hoover would have been as a FIB head, if homosexuality didn't matter. He was blackmailed the entire time. People's personal lives should be ENTIRELY divorced from their professional lives but the DNC and establishment doesn't want that.

Glenn Greenwald is a homosexual - you know how much that matters? It doesn't a bit. I want to return to meritocracy. We had it for a BRIEF period of time in the late 1990s.

I think a number of people who think "Ukraine is going to win" are living in the past - 30 years in the past. The USSR is gone - LONG gone. It's not the USSR anymore. It's RUSSIA.

In case you don't realize it, the USA is gone too. We are not the United States we were 30 years ago. We were on a bad path then but nobody did a course correction. We're the bankrupt empire now, not the USSR, not Russia, not China. The idea that the US is of central import is gone. We squandered our moral, technological, and intellectual superiority which we CERTAINLY once possessed.

It's the US that has outrageous propaganda, it's the US that engages in stupid endless war and dumps ALL the money it can into the military, most of it stolen and wasted. It's the US that has a kleptocracy, and hires loyal idiots for jobs, because they're loyal, not because they are competent. We are the fucking USSR now and we're toying with communism. Don't you assholes realize that? If we slip into communism, it's at least 70 years, an ENTIRE GENERATION to get out of it, Russia has already gone through it, learned their lesson, hopefully goddamned documented the FUCK out it. We're BEHIND now. If we have to learn this lesson for ourselves, God help us.

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-the-keystone

After a deeper dive on the impeachment debacle, the webs of corruption are more intertwined than I thought. Ukraine is the keystone. Ukraine has the goods on EVERYTHING.

Back in November 2019, Trump was speaking in an hour long interview on Fox and Friends. He claimed the DNC hid the server with a company in UKRAINE. See quote below:

“A lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine. They have the server, right? From the DNC ... they gave the server to CrowdStrike — or whatever it’s called — which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian, and I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. That’s a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?”

This is a rhetorical question from Trump. Of course he and Military Intelligence knew everything behind closed doors, but as soon as he publicly started talking about Ukraine, the Dems launched their impeachment scam, shortly followed by releasing C19 on the world just a month later, and thus they were able to hijack the narrative, and everyone forgot about the Dems’ dirty dealings in Ukraine.

2.5 years later, with more pieces to the puzzle, we can see the DNC set up an entire puppet government in Ukraine and have been using the nation as a proxy to carry out acts of global bioterrorism. Now it makes more sense as to why they sent the crowdstrike server to Ukraine, because Ukraine was a proxy government fully subservient to the Deep State. Fully outside the scope of US government oversight and jurisdiction, yet still in control of the Deep State players.

Ukraine was clearly the Deep State stronghold for the DNC. All the dirty shit they couldn’t get away with here in America, they just sent it to Ukraine. Just like they did with the Crowdstrike server, human trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, unethical medical experimentation, biological weapons production. Just send it over to Ukraine, and the US government can’t do anything about it without using military force.

Now it’s starting to make more sense as to why specifically the Democratic politicians in the US were the ones most concerned that Russia might move into Ukraine. As well as to why, out of nowhere, the left-wing and globalist politicians worldwide began publicly worshipping Ukraine. Why Joe Biden and the US establishment are sending tens of billions of our tax dollars to Ukraine. Why the western media complex wants you to believe Putin is literally Hitler.

All of it is because they are desperately clinging to power, and Ukraine is the stronghold for all of their Deep State activity since around 2014. Ukraine is the Deep State Keystone.

@Patrick - How the F is it possible to have this many people in the loop of such treason and keep it under wraps? How many people does it take to pull off all of this shit? The entirety of Congress had to have know most of this shit. You simple cannot keep all of this under wraps. Unpossible.

Clif High says the reason the WEF/US Corruptocrats are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian cannon fodder is that Ukrainian banks are holding on to their 'retirement' assets (translation, bribes) and the Russians plan to take them away from them. Ukraine also holds many servers that the CIA Corporation based in Switzerland uses to fuck the world.

CIA through Allen Dulles are the ones who re-constituted the SS/Gestap/Nazis after WWII into a new mad Reich to take up where the old one left off. Switzerland and the BIS did not like their investment in Hitler's Germany going to waste.

Ceffer says

Ukrainian banks are holding on to their 'retirement' assets (translation, bribes) and the Russians plan to take them away from them.

Knowing E European banks I can confidently state that only a fool would keep a lot of money in them. For serious individuals which WEF types most definitely are, banks in Liechtenstein and Monaco offer safe, confidential, and expensive services. Hence, the source which is being cited is likely full of shit.

WineHorror1 says

Ukraine was clearly the Deep State stronghold for the DNC. All the dirty shit they couldn’t get away with here in America, they just sent it to Ukraine. Just like they did with the Crowdstrike server, human trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, unethical medical experimentation, biological weapons production. Just send it over to Ukraine, and the US government can’t do anything about it without using military force.

COVID showed that. Look at the CDC approving the clot shot for babies the other day.

$$$, and then the fear of it all being revealed, so the incentive is for everybody to double down AND destroy anybody with second thoughts/outside experts with smears or worse.

who cares about Ukraine, when our own house is a fucking mess?

WineHorror1 says

@Patrick - How the F is it possible to have this many people in the loop of such treason and keep it under wraps? How many people does it take to pull off all of this shit? The entirety of Congress had to have know most of this shit. You simple cannot keep all of this under wraps. Unpossible.

I know it's difficult to believe our Congress is composed entirely of bribed and compromised traitors, but I think it's quite possible.

It's difficult to believe a conspiracy exists isn't it? But every clandestine intelligence operation is a conspiracy. The Patriot Act opened up the ability for the intelligence agencies to record ALL of our electronic communication. Perhaps a senator or congressman can't be compromised, but can their parents, or their spouse, children, niece, nephew, brother, sister, friend?

The Patriot Act ended our republic. We are in full control of the intelligence agencies now.

If you cannot blackmail somebody, you can threaten them, or their family, or their loved ones. I think you vastly underestimate the viciousness of the mafia - of THIS mafia. The real mafia isn't this viscous.

You probably don't remember James Traficant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant

Read about him. He died under mysterious circumstances. He stood up to Israel. Perhaps wrongly, I don't know. Perhaps his death was truly accidental. It's possible. It's more plausible than Jeffrey Epstein's death was at least.

Bd6r says

Hence, the source which is being cited is likely full of shit.

The comments were related to Ukraine being a crossroads for gold and precious/strategic metals. This makes it a good place to turn fiat money or laundered money into the purchase of these metals to be kept in the various bank vaults i.e. turning printing press money into hard assets. Said that Ukraine is home to many skilled artisans and workman of silver.

I don't think it is such a stretch that the Deep State types would keep stuff there, especially if they thought they had an unusual degree of extra legal control and lack of scrutiny. Both Kazakhstan and Ukraine have apparently been the countries the Globalists designated to be the new Capitals of their Brave New World. If that were the case, I doubt they would run it with all their wealth somewhere else.

Ceffer says

Ukraine also holds many servers that the CIA Corporation based in Switzerland uses to fuck the world.

Bullshit.

I'm able to encrypt a file myself that is unbreakable. I can store information here that nobody can violate. I'm certain the CIA is better than I am at this.

Kevin Mitnick did this 20 years ago. Using standard cryptography, if there's a mathematical error in it, it can be broken, but with a secret encryption technique, it's impossible to break that. This is security through obscurity with is frowned upon because inspection of the method of encryption can POTENTIALLY (and likely) allow the code to be broken, but without the method of encryption, it's 100% impossible. There's also XOR encryption on truly random numbers which is absolutely impossible to break, it's a one time encryption system. This is what the United States used in WWII with code books - there was absolutely no way to break this other than getting a code book, and the code books were right next to a bucket of water, and if the ship was boarded, the code book was dropped into the water to destroy it since the ink was water based. Germans were arrogant with Enigma - that was their downfall.

Today, there's absolutely no need to send files off to another country to protect them. I can store more data than the Library of Alexandria had on a $20 SD Card. Anybody can be a mule for information today. SD card in an condom isn't hard to swallow or to stuff up your ass or your v-j-j.

No reason to send data to another nation. That's no protection.

I think they are referring to manipulation, not strict data storage. Remember the CIA servers in Frankfurt and Spain that were used in conjunction with Vatican Leonardo satellites to perform Hammer and Scorecard manipulations on the voting machines in America? How come all that was offshored instead of just run from USA? It could just be that they were manipulating voting machines all over the world, but why do it there instead of here if what you say is true?

Also, there are Globalist and Deep State servers in Antarctica. Why the living fuck would they keep them down there? Remember when Klaus Schwab and a bunch of the WEF crowd went down this last December to Rothschild Island to enjoy a Satanic celebration of the 'Black Sun' (full solar eclipse)? They keep a bunch of servers down there because no laws and no unauthorized flyovers, so it is alleged. I laughed when I read 'Rothschild Island'. It's like an Epstein Island only Antarctic and Rothschild, where they can do whatever they want with whomever they want without scrutiny.

I imagine they set up command and control centers using computers and servers being very careful where they are and for what purposes. It seems to make sense that anybody would want redundancy in as many places as possible, especially if you were generally plotting the destruction of countries and governments, or if it involves big, shady finance and transactions. I doubt they keep this stuff on encrypted usb sticks.

Ceffer says

I think they are referring to manipulation, not strict data storage. Remember the CIA servers in Frankfurt and Spain that were used in conjunction with Vatican Leonardo satellites to perform Hammer and Scorecard manipulations on the voting machines in America? How come all that was offshored instead of just run from USA?

Was it? I don't believe this is correct.

Ceffer says

Also, there are Globalist and Deep State servers in Antarctica.

There might be, but why run them in Antarctica? That's a goddamned difficult place to live and an unpleasant place to be and impossible to access for months at a time. I just think this is incorrect. I can come up with better solutions, more comfortable ones. Living in Antarctica is like living in a missile silo except powering it is simpler and safer. You'd live in a structure, you couldn't leave it, but that is no worse than Antarctica - same thing, but outside is death and building a structure there is very difficult and expensive.

Ceffer says

Remember when Klaus Schwab and a bunch of the WEF crowd went down this last December to Rothschild Island to enjoy a Satanic celebration of the 'Black Sun' (full solar eclipse)? They keep a bunch of servers down there because no laws and no unauthorized flyovers, so it is alleged.

Oh, these assholes are above the law. They don't have to avoid jurisdiction.

Ceffer says

I doubt they keep this stuff on encrypted usb sticks.

It's trivial to do this.

If I was involved in nefarious activity, I'd encrypt. It's not difficult to do. I can EASILY make an encryption system that is 100% unbreakable, even with my limited knowledge, PROVIDED you don't have the algorithm.

I'd use AES256, that's XORED with a pseudo random generated number based on SHA256. Even if you had the code, I think it would be pretty well protected, but without the code, it's hopeless. I can't make an unbreakable code, I'm not a mathematician, but I can easily make an algorithm that if you can't see except for its results, you can never break, that no machine can ever break.

Keep the algorithm in your head and it's really impossible. Just combine it with a standard algorithm, and add something simple on top of it. There's a trillion possibilities, even if they crack the initial algorithm you used, they can't guess it. I could run a sudo random number generator to swap bits after AES256, it's entirely predictable, provided you know I did this. I can write this in 10 lines of C and duplicate it.

Knowing how to re-create an algorithm, and making it secret, makes it impossible to crack.

You're trying to get me banged up with the NSA again, aren't you. I won't fall for it.

Ceffer says

You're trying to get me banged up with the NSA again, aren't you. I won't fall for it.

I'm just explaining how trivial it is to scramble data - that's all encryption is.

I've been working on encryption algorithms lately and learning them. Standard encryption is fine, but adding another step completely messes it up. I've been thinking on how to make it impossible to crack the encryption without doing a brute force algorithm. Say the NSA already has brute force techniques, billions of custom ASICS and that's all they do - for established algorithms, add another step, and that's all worthless.

Ceffer says

It's going to be a rough ride, but appears inevitable.

It is inevitable. There is no way the current monetary system can last more than another century or two.

Ceffer says

Both Kazakhstan and Ukraine have apparently been the countries the Globalists designated to be the new Capitals of their Brave New World.

That's another red flag right there. Kazakhstan is under Chinese influence 100000%. There was information of the following on Islamist interwebs:

Step 1: Kazakhstan says they will not recognize Doneck and Lugansk.
Step 2: Russians block export of Kazakh oil via their territory.
Step 3: Kazakhs block export of Russian coal via their territory. Coal belongs to husband of relative of completely non-corrupt Putin.

They changed their masters from Russians to Chinese...no globullists anywhere in sight.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/newkc14/status/1538644151897669635#m

Capital of Kazakstan is built with as much masonic symbology as Washington DC, if not more. If it isn't Globalist in concept, what is it, parallel evolution?
"Kazakhstan and the Illuminati in an Unfinished Metropolis"
"In recent years, Kazakhstan has become better known in conspiracy circles for its dazzling new capital, Astana. The internet abounds with theories that highlight the rich thread of occult symbolism which seemingly runs through Astana’s futuristic architecture. Some of the more extravagant theories name it an Illuminati-funded, future Asian capital of the coming “New World Order.” "
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kazakhstan-and-the-illuminati
"Masonic symbolism in Astana leads some to believe it is the command centre of global Freemasonry and New World Order"
https://www.astanamyth.com/musings-1/2017/9/19/masonic-symbolism-in-the-city-of-astana-kazakhstan-leads-some-to-believe-it-is-the-command-centre-of-global-freemasonry-and-the-new-world-order
They have all of the Isis, Horus, pyramid symbologies. It seems a lot of people have trouble believing what they see with their own eyes vs. what they are told to see. Switzerland likewise is loaded with obelisks, Isis statues, seeds, masonic goblets and garlands, skull & bones, eyes of Horus etc. etc.

Ceffer says

Capital of Kazakstan is built with as much masonic symbology as Washington DC, if not more. If it isn't Globalist in concept, what is it, parallel evolution?

or two heads on the same body, which sometimes fight with each other. Perhaps the real rulers changed to Chinese when Tokayev was installed.

I have not been to Kazakhstan, don't know their language, don't know well anyone from there, so take what I say about them with a huge block of salt.

Hmm. Are the factions still shifting to reverse the previous coup?

Ceffer says

Hmm. Are the factions still shifting to reverse the previous coup?

Where's the astonishing rebuke that Kazakhstan's President issued?

What? Did the link not fit on the tiny Internet?

If they don't fucking point to the source, they are LYING.

Ceffer says

Capital of Kazakstan is built with as much masonic symbology as Washington DC, if not more. If it isn't Globalist in concept, what is it, parallel evolution?
"Kazakhstan and the Illuminati in an Unfinished Metropolis"
"In recent years, Kazakhstan has become better known in conspiracy circles for its dazzling new capital, Astana. The internet abounds with theories that highlight the rich thread of occult symbolism which seemingly runs through Astana’s futuristic architecture. Some of the more extravagant theories name it an Illuminati-funded, future Asian capital of the coming “New World Order.” "
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kazakhstan-and-the-illuminati
"Masonic symbolism in Astana leads some to believe it is the command centre of global Freemasonry and New World Order"
https://www.astanamyth.com/musings-1/2017/9/19/masonic...

Looks like Las Vegas' version of DC.

I suppose it could just be more propaganda BS in a world of BS.

https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=201861 no real link to original, though the poster does appear to be anti Russkie in bias.

George Eaton generally tries to stay 'balanced' presenting pro and con.
https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1538614166000480256%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rumormillnews.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fforum.cgi%3Fread%3D201861

AmericanKulak says

Looks like Las Vegas' version of DC.

LOL! Too much gold foil and not enough neon.

About those servers again: https://t.me/Absolute1776/14434
"After a deeper dive on the impeachment debacle, the webs of corruption are more intertwined than I thought. Ukraine is the keystone. Ukraine has the goods on EVERYTHING.

Back in November 2019, Trump was speaking in an hour long interview on Fox and Friends. He claimed the DNC hid the server with a company in UKRAINE. See quote below:

“A lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine. They have the server, right? From the DNC ... they gave the server to CrowdStrike — or whatever it’s called — which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian, and I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. That’s a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?”

This is a rhetorical question from Trump. Of course he and Military Intelligence knew everything behind closed doors, but as soon as he publicly started talking about Ukraine, the Dems launched their impeachment scam, shortly followed by releasing C19 on the world just a month later, and thus they were able to hijack the narrative, and everyone forgot about the Dems’ dirty dealings in Ukraine.

2.5 years later, with more pieces to the puzzle, we can see the DNC set up an entire puppet government in Ukraine and have been using the nation as a proxy to carry out acts of global bioterrorism. Now it makes more sense as to why they sent the crowdstrike server to Ukraine, because Ukraine was a proxy government fully subservient to the Deep State. Fully outside the scope of US government oversight and jurisdiction, yet still in control of the Deep State players.

Ukraine was clearly the Deep State stronghold for the DNC. All the dirty shit they couldn’t get away with here in America, they just sent it to Ukraine. Just like they did with the Crowdstrike server, human trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, unethical medical experimentation, biological weapons production. Just send it over to Ukraine, and the US government can’t do anything about it without using military force.

Now it’s starting to make more sense as to why specifically the Democratic politicians in the US were the ones most concerned that Russia might move into Ukraine. As well as to why, out of nowhere, the left-wing and globalist politicians worldwide began publicly worshipping Ukraine. Why Joe Biden and the US establishment are sending tens of billions of our tax dollars to Ukraine. Why the western media complex wants you to believe Putin is literally Hitler.

All of it is because they are desperately clinging to power, and Ukraine is the stronghold for all of their Deep State activity since around 2014. Ukraine is the Deep State Keystone.

For those that don’t know the definition, see below:

keystone
noun

-the most important part of a plan, idea, etc. on which everything else depends:

If Ukraine falls, the Deep State falls. Putin is gunning for the head of the snake.

-Clandestine"

richwicks says

What? Did the link not fit on the tiny Internet?

Funny as hell. I'm going to use that.

Gaps, shmaps.... Meantime third month into The Great Dumb Ass Offensive and Ivan is still stuck fighting for the grand megapolis of Sieverodonetsk (pop. 100,000). At the pace of offensive demonstrated so far (200 meters per day, give or take) they will reach their beloved Bessarabian gash ... err... gap in what, 4,000 days?

HunterTits says

RWSGFY says

Gaps, shmaps.... Meantime third month into The Great Dumb Ass Offensive and Ivan is still stuck fighting for the grand megapolis of Sieverodonetsk (pop. 100,000).

Ivan doesn't care about that city, except maybe having the excuse to leveling it, Grozny-style.

Right. That's why Ivan has wasted 2+ months on taking/leveling it instead of pursuing some strategic goals. For the life of me I can't understand the obsession with it. Is this because this is all they capable of now - slowly taking villages WWI-style?

https://southfront.org/zelenskys-choice-peace-and-eu-candidacy-or-protracted-conflict-on-washingtons-demand/

However, reports are emerging that the major European powers are attempting to make Zelensky realize that territorial concessions are a reality he must accept. It is likely that the European powers, despite the incessant pressure from Poland and the Baltic states, accept that Russia will achieve its goals in seizing all of the territory of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Until recently, the EU believed that sanctions would force Russia to end its military operation. Again, the realization has set in that sanctions, which in the interim will certainly remain and perhaps even intensify, will not deter Moscow’s determination from achieving its aims.

In this way, it would appear that Zelensky has no choice but to accept the new reality that Ukraine is once again becoming a territorially smaller country. Kiev appears determined to defy what the Europeans want – a quick conclusion to the war. Due to this, the war will remain protracted, something that the Biden administration wants.