{"id":32465,"date":"2025-03-03T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32465"},"modified":"2025-03-02T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:22:57","slug":"ukraine-endless-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/ukraine-endless-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine \u2013 Endless Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve probably said too much already about the Ukraine War but it\u2019s one of those horrible things that can\u2019t just go away.\u00a0 So, ignoring it is just denial.\u00a0 At this point there are no longer any good options.\u00a0 Both sides have lost so many men that they feel they must win in order not to appear to have sacrificed a generation of young men for nothing.\u00a0 But one of them will have to.\u00a0 And if I were to guess I\u2019d say it\u2019s the Ukrainians that will lose.\u00a0 But I think it will take another year for them to get to the point of collapse.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By then, the Russians will have lost a million men and the Ukrainians will have lost two million.\u00a0 At that point the Russians will be so enraged that they\u2019ll inflict crippling conditions and may increase the ceded territory beyond the four provinces they\u2019re currently claiming as theirs.<\/p>\n<p>And most of the blame for this should be laid at the feet of the neo-cons who put together this whole war during the Obama and Biden administrations.\u00a0 They organized and sponsored the color revolution and armed the Ukrainians and told them that with the aid of the United States and Europe they would not only beat Russia but they would become a part of NATO.\u00a0 The neo-cons saw this as an opportunity to test out all of their weaponry on a battlefield against the Russians without having to risk many of their own troops or nuclear war.\u00a0 And they figured it would bleed the Russians dry and then humiliate them in the eyes of their own people and thereby destroy Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they were half right.\u00a0 We have managed to cause the Russians great harm.\u00a0 But from where I stand what we\u2019ve accomplished is making them our implacable foes for the next hundred years.\u00a0 And we\u2019ve thrown them into the arms of China and hastened the end of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.\u00a0 Well done, neo-cons.<\/p>\n<p>But now Donald Trump is stuck with this mess.\u00a0 That sideshow he put on with Zelensky in the oval office is part of some plan to get the Ukrainians receptive to a peace treaty.\u00a0 I assume what he\u2019s setting up is a take it or leave it deal where he negotiates with Putin, and then Zelensky gets his side to accept.\u00a0 Well, Trump likes to negotiate but I\u2019m not sure how much give there is on the Russian side.\u00a0 I think the things that are written in stone are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No NATO membership ever.<\/li>\n<li>Permanent Ukrainian neutrality.<\/li>\n<li>Substantial reduction in Ukraine\u2019s military.<\/li>\n<li>Some proviso against the Azov leadership ever holding power again.<\/li>\n<li>Complete protection of Russian ethnic institutions (language, religion, etc.) in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>Substantial territorial transfers to Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think there is probably some give on exactly how much land will have to be ceded to Russia.\u00a0 I think the Russians are very tired of the meat grinder that transfers Ukrainian territory to Russia at a rate that translates to just a few square feet per hour but also can be measured in hundreds of deaths per week on each side.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sickening spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t envy Trump\u2019s job in trying to negotiate a peace treaty.\u00a0 Not only does he have Putin and Zelensky to reckon with but he also has that pack of idiots in Europe.\u00a0 The clown car filled with all the globalist \u201cleaders\u201d from Britain, France, Germany and all the rest of those useless countries will be howling and shrieking and demanding that we provide enough arms and money to continue the war until the last Ukrainian is dead.\u00a0 If he does manage to negotiate an end to the war, he shouldn\u2019t just get a Nobel Peace Prize they should also take back the one they gave to Obama.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m not so certain anything but time will end this war.\u00a0 If (when) the Ukrainians are forced to capitulate the outrage they will experience because of the brutal conditions of surrender will probably result in a witch hunt for the leaders who were responsible for this debacle.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing that if Zelensky doesn\u2019t have a bunker in a friendly nation that won\u2019t extradite him he\u2019s not going to live much beyond the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>And there will be other consequences of this brutal war.\u00a0 What\u2019s left of Ukraine will be destabilized and there are hints of Hungary, Poland and Romania looking to make territorial claims based on ethnic enclaves that were long ago added to Ukraine.\u00a0 All in all, the fallout from this brilliant geopolitical catastrophe threatens to haunt the world long after we\u2019re all dead.\u00a0 Once again, well done, neo-cons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve probably said too much already about the Ukraine War but it\u2019s one of those horrible things that can\u2019t just go away.\u00a0 So, ignoring 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