The Barbarian said:
Putin regards Ukraine as a part of Russia. In his view, he was just reclaiming territory. Now, he's running out of men, out of equipment, and he's unable to make any territorial gains, as Ukraine has started killing Russian troops en masse.
The Kremlin recently dismissed a written offer from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sit down for a formal summit.
Publicly, Vladimir Putin maintains a hard line. He frequently states that military action will stop “when we achieve the goals we set.”
Behind the tough talk, the reality looks quite different. After more than four years of fighting, the administration is running out of options.
Farida Rustamova, an exiled Russian political scientist, recently spoke to Le Monde about the situation. She told the French outlet that “Putin is at an impasse and is unable to win or abandon this war.”
The ongoing conflict has stretched far beyond its original timeline. According to
Ziare.com, regular citizens and wealthy elites alike are growing deeply tired of the daily disruptions.
This mounting domestic pressure is forcing the Kremlin to secretly look for an off-ramp.
Back in May, Putin floated the idea of using former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as a peace broker. He also quietly allowed a wealthy businessman, widely believed to be Roman Abramovich, to visit Kyiv for unofficial talks.
Rustamova explained that these scattered moves are deliberate signals. The Russian leader desperately wants to start a negotiation process without looking like he lost.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
I'm not even going to entertain that.
Let's go to another fact;
In 1938, Hitler made exactly the same accusations of killings of ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia, launching an invasion to annex part of that nation. Later, he invaded the rest.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
All of these guys played the same game. The difference is, Hitler was capable enough to pull it off successfully. Putin and Trump bungled it.