Previous to the Minsk Agreements there existed the Russian-Ukraine Friendship Treaty of 1997, which turned into Putin’s opportunity for political corruption and internal dissension. The political corruption brought by Russia resulted in a hostile atmosphere and the rise of Viktor Yanukovych. We all know where that went.
All the hopes of the Minsk Agreements were nothing but more political propaganda by Putin. The then Former President Poroshenko did not renew the agreements because of the egregious nature of Russia toward Ukraine.
The egregious nature of Putin’s Russia was in clear demonstration when Putin initiated the War on Donbas in 2014 before the Minisk Agreements. The casualties of that Russian invasion numbered in the ten thousands. Those casualties included more than three thousand Ukrainian civilians. St. Michael’s Monestary in Kiev has a memorial to
The war dead of the Donbas War last I read.
The War on Donbas continued and then escalated in 2022 when Russia rolled tanks into Ukraine while President Zelenskyy was engaged in peaceful economic negotiations with Russia and the European Union. That escalation served Putin’s purpose in interrupting the economic ties with the EU. See, Putin believes the Soviet Union needs to be resurrected from its wayward ashes and any economic ties with the Free World means communism is at risk. Hence, the forever fear of NATO.
The ties with Ukraine were paused by the EU because the entire world believed Russian tanks were invincible after observing the devastation in Syria. “Wrong.” Ukrainians laughed at Russia and began single handedly destroying the Russian invasion while expecting Putin to have a rush of sanity. “Wrong.” Putin has no sanity except his own ideology about the now dead Soviet Union.
Thus, now enters the picture the most corrupt USA president in the history of the country pretending to be the Prince of Peace. There is no viable agreement anywhere on the horizon with Putin. Nowhere. How is an agreement to any form of peace between Ukraine and Russia going to manifest as Russia continues to have the highest war losses in Russian history as Putin ropes in North Korea and who knows who else into soldiers of fortune? That is a skill Putin adapted from the now dead Wagner.
Any TALKS between Putin and Trump are nothing but empty expressions of propaganda designed to change Vladimir’s image to the world view. Enter complaints about Trump and his bromance with a killer in Putin to bring REAL life FACTS to Putin’s propaganda campaign. Could the Russian investment through the NRA and Maria Butina actually pay off?
Any meeting in Alaska might be a longing for a vacation by Putin to view the endangered Polar Bear. But, it will be nothing more than that while Putin bemoans selling Alaska to the USA. Putin is terrified the U.S.A. might actually annex Canada into statehood and where would that leave Putin’s ideology of the Soviet Union phoenix?
