The whole point of cutting aid was to let Ukraine know who’s boss. Now that dominance has been established, things can go back to business as usual.
It was always just theatre. Nothing has changed. They’re just doing a PR stunt now pretending like Trump was so tough on Zelensky it pushed him to agree to a ceasefire proposal. It’s an exercise in narrative control because Russia has already said it would not accept a ceasefire (which would only benefit Ukraine at this point since it is losing ground all along the line and needs time to regroup, dig in and rearm) unless its demands are met.
Pay attention to what’s happening on the battlefield, not in the media circus.
Would you mind recommending some source of information on what’s happening on the battlefield in a spare moment?
The news megathread on Hexbear always has a section in the header titled Russia-Ukraine conflict where they list out a number of sources. It’s somewhat out of date and some of those sources are now either defunct or lower quality than they used to be, but it’s still a good place to start.
Else you can also use Yandex search and look for Russian language (just run them through a translator) news sources which tend to be the most up to date.
cfgaussian, would I recognize you on the news megathread?
No, i’m not on Hexbear, although i follow it occasionally. I’m only on Lemmygrad and unfortunately right now Hexbear isn’t federated with us anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
That channel has daily updates and is relatively neutral.
I gave up on DPA after he went on a transphobic rant one time.
He did? Fuck, that’s disappointing.
Yeah it was back when there was that whole budlite thing.
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
This is a similar channel. Neutral-ish with a slight pro-Russia inclination. Reliable when it comes the facts of what is currently happening, but very mediocre track record on predictions and deeper analysis. Both of these channels are good for following the up to date maps and footage, but you should draw your own conclusions or rely on more intelligent analysts when it comes to the big picture.
Yeah I predict next Trump may turn to big pressure on Russia (more sanctions and whatever else he can muster) to attempt to get them to agree to a “temporary” (not really wink) ceasefire which allows France, UK, etc to say conditions are met and mobilize their troops as ‘peackeepers’ into Ukraine along the western bank of the Dnieper to prevent Russia getting any further. Of course if Russia is wise they understand this plan and won’t agree to a ceasefire to prevent this escalation which will result in nothing more than media sobbing (including from reactionaries who were acting friendly towards Russia of late) about how unreasonable they’re being, about how they’re the ones preventing peace now and how horrible and warlike they are and so on. After a while of this they may come around to offering Russia better terms in desperation or maybe up the weapons supply but I feel the US is so focused on China they’ll just find a way to offload it to Europe and say Europe lost it and the corrupt Ukrainians lost it and Biden lost it, etc.
It would seem so, it is predicated on a ceasefire.
