High quality take from a Ukraine point of view
“I genuinely don’t understand why everyone suddenly rushed to prove that soot is black and that there was no specific “attack on Putin’s residence.”
What I understand even less is why everyone automatically accepted these rules of the game, where Russia — in its aggressive war — is allowed to systematically plunge entire Ukrainian cities into cold and darkness, attempt assassinations on Zelensky, collapse apartment buildings full of civilians with missile strikes, wage full-scale warfare, and repeatedly refuse any ceasefire — and none of this is supposed to create any problems for the so-called “peace negotiation process.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine is expected to sit quietly and endure the strikes in silence, just so as not to “threaten the prospects of a peaceful settlement”?
That’s not going to happen. And the very fact that this state of affairs exists at all, in the largest war of aggression of the modern era, only shows how far the catastrophic degradation of global politics has gone under Trump.”