If they did they would have realised an unconditional ceasefire was just a deferment of the problems that started the conflict and the last thing the Russians wanted.
Russia's concerns were security based not territorial and an 'off the cuff' no NATO for Ukraine from Trump while all the European leaders and the head of NATO were all saying 'of course Ukraine will join NATO' was enough for the Russians to turn their back on the whole process.
If they couldn't get security guarantees then taking a buffer zone would have to suffice.
So negotiations got nowhere and the attrition conflict raged on and began to bite deeper and deeper into Ukraine.
Trump presumably knows that his threat of tariffs on China and India for buying Russian oil will adversely affect world trade and supply lines and will end up hurting the US more than Russia, just as the European sanctions hurt Europe and not Russia.
There is no way out for Ukraine or Trump or NATO except defeat and neither want to admit it. So the war will rumble on until Ukraine can't take it anymore which won't be until after the money flow stops.
So Trump is stalling and there are now real signs the US have had enough funding this debacle.
Ukraine is going to be partitioned between west and east, the only question is where.
But the fighting is not over yet, especially if the Europeans have anything to do about it. They, and Ukraine, really need to provoke Putin into an over reaction that might pull the US into the hot war, watch out for it.
Europe really needs this, the money made from the industrial revolution and colonialism is all spent, they have nothing else, no natural resources and no cheap energy anymore though China was going to overrun European production anyway.
75 Trillion Dollars of Russian natural resources would be a real life saver. Force the 10 million young male immigrants into the army (in return for citizenship), issue Euro bonds to raise €800 billion for military production, and away we go. Don't worry, Ursula van der Satan is on it.
Ukraine is going to be partitioned between west and east, the only question is where?
Top map 2010 election result: Blue - pro Russian candidate. Red - pro western candidate:
The last election before the CIA backed coup in 2014 and the 2019 election of Zelensky who ran on a 'peace with Russia' ticket that he reneged on immediately after getting elected.
SUNDAY WIRE EP 556 – 'Downfall' with Patrick Henningsen and Arnaud Develay
