RE: BBC Update Peace Not So Straighforward21 Nov 2025 17:22
Troajan, like all the pro war crowd, feigns empathy - he cares nothing about Ukraine or Ukrainians. If he did, he'd not regurgitate simple British security establishment propaganda, acknowledge at least some nuance, and want to see an end to a completely avoidable war. No, its not Manchester falling or his family getting grabbed off the street for foreign interests, so no bother. For the fanatical European political class, the only acceptable settlement is a strategic defeat of Russia. Any negotiated settlement today exposes their war narratives, opens them up to questions, and ends their neoliberal globalist project. Quite possibly the Europeans hoped to buy time for a post Trump world, where a new more conventional US President would recommit to WW3 and nuclear war. On these US terms, Ukraine will need to hold elections, which is why Zelensky will never willingly back them unless pressured to put his country first.