At least he has announced it a number of times.

But, it turns out that human beings are not an infinite resource.

…. to him about an Israeli agent working inside of ISIS in Syria. Israel had to extract that agent.




The last time Trump tried to “negotiate” a deal with Ukraine he told them to give up 30% of its lands
and people.

N/t

Losing the war--running out of money, weapons, and cannon fodder. In no position to make demands.

I don't know how any idiot got the idea into their heads that "peace negotiations" were ever feasible or represented a way to possibly end the war.

Ukraine should have been given enough support to end this relatively quickly in their favor. As it is now, the war will likely go on until one side or the other undergoes a total collapse.

Because when it does - possibly even before if they hit unlucky - all hell will let loose in Russia.

They're already having severe problems dealing with ultra-violent and unwelcome returnists among those who miraculously survived tours of duty in the conflict and somehow managed to make it back to the homeland without being pressganged immediately into another tour.

I doubt Lavrov, let alone Putin, could even describe precisely what this "capitulation" would look like and play out in practice. Even if Ukraine's leadership succumbed, a decent proportion of its population wouldn't go along with it, so it would be a very uneasy and fragile "peace".

And then, even in the unlikely event the Ukrainian population was quelled, Russia would have to count up the cost and what was actually gained from the conflict, including an enduringly suspicious and decidely hostile European bloc to its west, an ambitious and very powerful one to its east, and increasingly dissatisfied satellite states to its south.