Putin’s Conditions for Peace Deal: Ukraine Gives Up Donbas, No NATO, and No Western Troops

(As I have said many times, Russia will settle for NATO remaining out of Ukraine and Donbass becomes part of Russia since they are why Putin got involved in this whole thing in the first place. And here we are. But Puppet Zelensky wont have it. Donbass left Ukraine on their own after our Nazi-backed coup in 2014 and have been bombed ever since by Kiev. Donbass will never go back to Ukraine just like Crimea wont. It is a good deal for Ukraine since they aren't really losing anything they hadn't already lost before Russia got involved. But it was always about baiting Russia into the conflict and so, they wont accept it.) 

from AntiWar

Reuters reported on Thursday that Russia’s demands for a peace deal in Ukraine include Ukrainian forces withdrawing from the Donbas, a guarantee that Ukraine won’t join NATO, and for Ukraine to keep Western troops out of the country.

Russian sources told Reuters that Putin had compromised on his initial conditions, which included the Ukrainian withdrawal from the territory in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Under the current offer, Russia is willing to freeze the lines there and also return small amounts of territory it controls in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk.

For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly rejected the idea of ceding the territory Ukrainian forces still control in the Donbas, and European leaders appear to be backing his position.

When it comes to NATO, the Reuters report said that Moscow is seeking a legally binding pledge from the alliance that it wouldn’t move further eastwards. A guarantee that Ukraine wouldn’t join NATO was one of Russia’s main demands to avoid the invasion, but the Biden administration refused to engage on the issue...

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French monitor: Ukraine, NATO provoked Russia in Donbas war

from the Grayzone

 

Trmp Putin Summit Live Updates

by Scott Creighton 

 RT is posting live updates from the summit in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Seems the MIC hired some crisis actors or a rent a crowd to hang around outside the base waving Ukrainian flags as if folks in America want desperately to see the war continue as long as possible. 

 Of course these pro-war ass-hats forget what started all of this.

 And they seem to forget who they stand with when they stand with Ukraine:

 

 

Ukraine must accept territorial losses to survive – NATO state’s president

from RT

Ukraine does not have enough strength to retake its former territories in the near term without devastating losses and must therefore prioritize survival as a state, Czech President Petr Pavel has said.

Pavel, a former NATO Military Committee chair and longtime supporter of Ukraine – who believes the country should join the US-led bloc even in its “temporary” borders – made the remarks in a BBC interview on Monday.

Ukraine, even with Western backing, is “not in a position to liberate occupied territories in a short time frame without a significant cost to lives,” the president said.

”We want them to survive as an independent sovereign country. If the cost is to accept that part of the territory will be temporarily occupied, then [so] be it,” he added, stressing that the West will never recognize any former Ukrainian region as Russian...

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Back in a Bit

by Scott Creighton

 

Pre-op check-in this morning at hospital. Will be back a little later and after some lunch I will be doing a video talking about what happened in Ukraine and the Donbas region after Obama's bloody coup and regime change that took place in 2014.

I have to do that since my fellow journalists on the 'alt-left' seem to forget all about that part of the Ukraine war with Russia.

Someone has to be honest.

Rodger Waters and Jeffrey Sachs both gave good honest representations of that history to various world bodies recently in support of ending the conflict while the MSM and complicit fake alt-left influencers seem more interested in supporting Azov Nazis in Ukriane.

Be right back folks.

John McCain’s Response to Kiev Government Using Cluster Bombs on Civilian Population? Give them more bombs (archive)

(archived from February 7, 2015)

by Scott Creighton

 

When truth becomes the lie, the insidious conspiracy theory, while the lie becomes the unassailable gospel, the duty of the heretic becomes crystal clear.

With all the hoopla surrounding the affected outraged over the fabricated “burning man” video, it’s hard to temper the warmongering spirit of folks like Sen. John McCain who currently chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. Little will dilute his mighty, righteous wrath which he wields like a faith healer does a bible. All he wants is to send your kids to fight, maim and kill on behalf of his friend’s business interests all across the world. Is that too much to ask?

We are chastised by trolls if we don’t respect the authenticity of the of the obviously fake  Muath Al-Kaseasbeh video and collectively rally in a whirlwind of rabid nationalism to rid the world of the “barbaric” and “inhuman” scourge that is ‘ISIS’ a.k.a. “the Bad Muslims”

We “witnessed” the burning of a pilot who had just dropped bombs on civilians and combatants alike in Syria, but that is of no consequence. Man’s inhumanity to man was on full display as the stuntman danced around in a pretend cage that couldn’t have held a 6-year-old child in “timeout” for longer than a minute. The MTV inspired video targeted an MTV generation with an MTV simplicity and banality that makes sense only to those rendered institutionally incapable of discerning reality from fiction. Incapable of thinking for themselves.

Be repulsed. Be angry. Support the war effort as endless as it is.

just a reminder

by Scott Creighton

Just a reminder: 

We are told by ALL sources that Russia 'invaded' Ukraine for no reason on Feb. 24 2022 

The truth? The people of Donbass region had been BEGGING for help b/c Ukraine was bombing them relentlessly. 

 This was what Ukraine did day before Russia helped Donbass

 

Il-76 Provocation ‘Setting Zelensky Up for Fall at Time of US’s Choosing’

 from Sputnik

More than a day has passed since Wednesday morning’s downing of a Russian Il-76 transport plane full of Ukrainian PoWs near the Ukrainian border, with Kiev, Washington and Brussels silent following revelations by Russia’s Defense Ministry that the plane was struck by Ukrainian missiles. Sputnik asked Russian and Western observers what it all means.

In a televised address to the nation Wednesday night, President Zelensky said Ukrainian military intelligence would seek to “clarify the fates” of PoWs presumed lost in the Il-76 crash, accusing Russia of "playing with the[ir] lives" and calling for an “international investigation” into the incident.

 

Earlier in the day, Ukraine’s General Staff said it would “continue to take measures to destroy the missile delivery means” used by Russia, “including in the Belgorod-Kharkov direction,” and neither commented on nor denied Ukrainian involvement in the Il-76’s downing.

 

Hours before that, a Ukrainian military intelligence spokesman confirmed to US media that a prisoner swap had been scheduled for Wednesday, indicating that Kiev had direct knowledge of the Russian aircraft’s route and mission.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Thursday that Russia would be prepared for an international probe proposed by Zelensky, “if he means an international investigation into the criminal actions of the Kiev regime,” which “is definitely needed.”

 

“The exchange of prisoners is a process that takes place in complete silence. The fact that the Ukrainians killed their PoWs, their citizens, who should have been at home literally in a day, this, of course, is a completely monstrous act. It’s beyond comprehension,” Peskov said...

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Flight MH17, Royal Dutch Shell and the Yuzovshi Shale Gas Field – What Could It Mean?

archived from July 27, 2014

by Scott Creighton

I have taken info from a number of graphics and tried to compile them onto one little map so folks can get a better idea of yet another stunning “coincidence” in the supposed downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.

Though lots of people (with good reason) are focused on the story of Joe Biden’s son being on the board of Burisma, an energy conglomerate with a lot invested in Ukrianian LNG development, there is another rather striking anomaly surrounding the downing of Flight MH17 that is seemingly flying under the radar (if you will pardon the pun)

That little oddity of which I write is the fact that the Malaysian Airline flight with a vast majority of passengers from the Netherlands, just happened to fly off course by a large amount, right over a known conflict zone and right near a crucial area for a company based out of the Netherlands, Royal Dutch Shell.