On December 3rd in Russian and December 5th in English, RT News, which is owned by Russia’s Government, published an article, “Dmitry Trenin: How Russia plans to win in Ukraine”, which says that “For Moscow, anything less than full victory equates to defeat.” This means that there is no longer any possibility for negotiations regarding that war. And that means Trump’s promise to negotiate an end to it is no longer considered acceptable by Russia. It means that any U.S. President’s proposal to negotiate about the end of America’s now-ten-year-long war against Russia that’s being waged by Ukraine’s troops and U.S.-and-allied weapons and satellite intelligence in order to defeat Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine, will no longer be considered by Russia. Why is this so? He doesn’t explain.
Trenin provides no answer to this other than that, “The authorization [by Biden] to use US and British long-range missiles to hit targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions [those are long-term unchallenged provinces of Russia itself — and so this was Biden’s authorization for Ukrainians to use U.S.-and-allied weapons to bomb Russia itself: it was directly America’s war to conquer Russia] is both a defiant challenge to Putin, and a ‘gift’ to the president-elect.” That’s vague language; it says really nothing except that Biden hates Putin — which everyone already knows — and it alleges (which no one knows) that it was Biden’s ‘gift’ to Trump (whatever that is supposed to mean).
One statement by Trenin that IS clear (and it is obviously also true) is “The conflict represents a direct, though proxy, clash between two nuclear superpowers in a region of vital importance to one of them.” (By that vague “one of them,” he obviously means Russia.)
Hellbound and Down 