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Is Negotiation the Best Way to End the Proxy War with Russia?
• https://www.paulcraigroberts.orgPaul Craig RobertsAlready Ukraine has violated the partial ceasefire agreement Putin made with Trump:
"A gas pipeline supplying the European Union is on fire in Russia due to an Ukraine Drone strike. A massive pillar of flames is visible near the Kursk(Russia) – Sumy (Ukraine) border. Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry cries foul: "Kyiv has already violated the ceasefire. How will Trump deal with these mad terrorists?"
It was just earlier this week that President Trump and President Putin agreed to a ceasefire against "energy infrastructure." "Putin agreed and immediately conveyed the appropriate order to Russian Forces. So effective was President Putin's Order that Russian Forces which had already launched Drones toward Ukraine to attack such targets, used Russia's own air defenses to shoot down their own drones rather than cause a problem under President Putin's order!"
Nadezhda Romanenko reports on the immediate violation of the ceasefire agreement:
"This latest incident is not occurring in a vacuum. It is part of a long and well-documented pattern of deception and provocation, especially in the face of good-faith overtures by Russia."
"As if anyone expected something different," she adds. Well, Putin and Lavrov did. Negotiation with the West doesn't seem to be a Kremlin skill. Possibly, Zelensky's agreement to a ceasefire did not apply to a partial ceasefire, and Ukraine struck the Russian energy infrastructure prior to Trump speaking again with Zelensky.
https://www.rt.com/russia/614599-kiev-gas-attack-trust/
The British prime minister has threatened Russia with "devastating consequences" if Putin violates the ceasefire agreement. He is considering sending British jets to provide air cover for Ukrainian soldiers. A British admiral said that one British submarine with Trident missiles could incinerate 40 Russian cities and it should make Putin afraid. In other words, Washington's "British ally" and also much of NATO Europe intend to frustrate a peace agreement with air support for Ukraine and perhaps nuclear cover from Britain and France for Ukraine. A question before us is whether a Trump-Putin peace agreement means the death of NATO.
Meanwhile, Putin's unwillingness to use force to win the conflict brings daily new embarrassments to Russia. On March 20 a massive drone attack was launched from Ukraine on Russia's air base in Engels, central Russia.