It's hopeless, don't you know? Ukraine, just give up, already. More today, from some jackass named Ishaan Tharoor, at the Washington Post:
"Amid talk of World War III, diplomacy is losing steam"
Says who?
"The specter of nuclear catastrophe hangs over the Russian war in Ukraine, according to Russia’s own top diplomat. Speaking on state television earlier this week, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned NATO countries against sending armaments to Ukraine, suggesting that such support was “pouring oil on the fire” and increasing the risk of confrontation between nuclear powers.
“Everyone is reciting incantations that in no case can we allow World War III,” Lavrov said, insisting that Russia in no way wanted to drift down the path of nuclear strife with what he dubbed the Western “proxy” forces battling Russian troops in Ukraine. But he added that the risk was “serious, it is real.”
Oh, I see. The Russian foreign minister says so, while threatening "nuclear catastrophe. Anyone else besides the Russian foreign minister? Not as far as I can tell from this article. Of course, eventually, Tharoor gets around to admitting:
"Both Ukrainian and Western officials have been skeptical about the Kremlin’s interest in peace talks, suspecting that they were a ruse to help Russia retool for new offensives."
No shit, Sherlock. How about speaking the truth: Everyone on both sides of this conflict knows that Putin's peace overtures are totally insincere, and designed to do nothing but buy time in the face of his military humiliation, and make the world's remaining meager supply of fools, including apparently the editors at the Washington Post, believe that he has any interest in anything but naked aggression.
"What is not happening is any substantive process toward a diplomatic solution. Lavrov said current prospects for a settlement were “dismal,” pinning the blame on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a lack of sincerity in negotiations."
Of course, it is Zelensky's fault, for a "lack of sincerity." Zelensky is not willing to give away a large part of his country to criminal aggression, which is not even succeeding. Only abandoning millions of his countrymen to a dictator, apparently, could show that he was "sincere." That has to be the most ludicrous example of projection since Donald Trump accused the Democrats of trying to steal the 2020 election.
What is also not happening, apparently, is any commitment from the Post to stand for democracy and against tyranny. I suspect the Post's editors have decided that the American people have no taste for making any sacrifice- even temporarily higher food and gas prices- to stop dictatorship from sweeping democracy off the face of the earth. That is certainly what the leaders of the Republican party decided long ago, and apparently, once again, the mainstream press is thrilled to join them in their depravity.
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I am most sorry to tell you that I agree with you completely. The Republican party has actually (an I mean literally) found a way to neutralize both the intellectual capacity and common decency in half of our population. I don't know where our nation goes from here, but if the Democrats don't wake up and face the real problem in the next couple of months, we are doomed.