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15:23<\/h2>\n

I think you can sense the smell of a new security arrangement where the countries in the EFP together with the US push forward and do what is right while the giants France and Germany have completely embarrassed themselves here.<\/p>\n

Italy seems to have recovered with a new government?<\/p>\n

It could be a way for the USA to tone down its dominance in the face of China, for example, by letting the EFP take, if not the lead, then at least the lead in certain sensitive issues?<\/p>\n

Russia has fallen and Putin is in full panic now, even I can see that. They are the very definition of running headlong into the wall.<\/p>\n

It is comedy at an elite level when Putin now starts going out through his media contacts and getting printed in the Western press that it is actually Russia that is the victim and that he is a misunderstood genius who really wishes well for everyone. Tough love as the English School says (sounds so incredibly wrong, easy to get a completely different association than a well-managed school class!), Ukraine just has to understand that Putin really wants their best.<\/p>\n

When the undisputed ruler who has looked down on every world leader with disdain for all these years starts pointing fingers and blaming others, you know he carries a lot of anxiety. That is good in several ways, partly because it is hysterically funny that he crashes in the hardest possible way but it is also good because with desperation more bad decisions will come in the future.<\/p>\n

Ukraine refuses to give Russia the out they so desperately need despite two Western leaders working overtime to force it. That the subhumans in the actual province of Ukraine, which we worked so hard to disarm after the millennium shift, would have the audacity to resist \u2013 that war game was never practiced in the years before the war.<\/p>\n

I came across this article from Wapo when I was snooping around for the latest f@rr&diska statements from Scholz and Macron, very worth reading. Maybe it has been up before but we have guessed about the same in all points.
\nhttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/12\/02\/scholz-putin-biden-ukraine-diplomacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Zelensky is absolutely right that Ukraine is fighting entirely on its own for the free West. Had the chain played out as Putin wanted, I, Erik14 and Dengamle would have stood in some home guard battalion on a rainy Saturday trying to understand why the development went from muzzle loaders, which we were really fast with, and regretted not bringing a raincoat, a small umbrella for all three immediately put the friendship to the test.<\/p>\n

I have relatives who have experienced genocidal wars like this, nothing you can undo but have to learn to live with. Was also in a country in Africa and saw the aftermath of one of the worse wars down there \u2013 which of course the Soviet Union had been involved in driving. Nothing you wish on anyone and now it is happening a few hours away in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The most frustrating thing about the whole war is that the EU does as they always have and sleeps through the first half until they get a hard ball right in the face and after some crying and screaming in falsetto actually start running after the ball. Except Macron and Scholz who continue to score as many own goals as they can, it would be silly not to do as one always has in all major wars.<\/p>\n

Things are starting to move again, lots of videos with mechanics on the way as below and there are zero sour faces or long faces \u2013 motivation is high, every Ukrainian knows that the USA stands by their side all the way (even if it wouldn\u2019t turn out that way later\u2026). A very nice play by Zelensky to raise morale just before the winter war starts, hats off.
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/NOELreports\/status\/1606277940173426688?s=20&t=-SNOEzQ9-I7EM3EofhT8Og<\/a><\/p>\n

Then it seems like the dam broke for all the decent countries in Europe have announced new support packages except France and Germany \u2013 the Germans need all their Patriots themselves and France just wanted to tell everyone that Ukraine would never join NATO, that was the most important thing to convey right now according to Macron.<\/p>\n

Now we are waiting for the winter war, completely overrun Russian units, large territorial gains and a lot of peace offerings from Putin, Macron and Scholz ahead.
\nGot war-technical because I suspect LW will post a Christmas post from Nuuk that sets the mood \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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15:42<\/h3>\n

Russia claims to have proof that Ukraine was going to attack and retake Donbass and that they just stopped it.
\nThis is the new narrative to justify the actual war of aggression.<\/p>\n

It is irrefutably contradicted by the fact that the Ukrainian army was not mobilized at the start of the war. To retake Donbass they would probably have needed the whole army and it was in barracks or on leave because Macron and possibly Germany assured Ukraine that there would be no war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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