The stakes remain high for "enduring and sustainable" cognitive dissonance in Jeddah.
Gene Marx
March 14, 2025
Gene Marx
March 14, 2025
OK. Let me get this straight. Our prospective Nobel Peace Prize laureate Trump and his neocon peace negotiation team are touting successful peace talks in Saudi Arabia and are presenting its Jeddah US/Ukranian proposal in Moscow, seeking Putin’s approval.
"Today we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations," Rubio told reporters after the talks in Jeddah.
"We'll take this offer now to the Russians and we hope they'll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court."
"If they say no then we'll unfortunately know what the impediment is to peace here," Rubio said of Russia, which launched a “full-scale” invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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At the same presser Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz announced the resumption of military aid and intelligence sharing with Kyiv. What could possibly go wrong, and what part of Putin’s unwavering insistence of a long-term peace don’t we understand?
A 30-day pause to hostilities may be more of a pipe dream than our crack diplomats could ever understand. Notwithstanding this news cycle’s Russophobic narrative, Vladimir Putin does support an end to the hostilities in Ukraine. but insists a potential ceasefire will be a first step to enduring peace.
Speaking during a bilateral meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko Putin noted “We agree with the proposals to cease hostilities. But… this cessation must be such that it would lead to long-term peace and eliminate the initial causes of this crisis.”
But why in hell would Putin trust American diplomatic overtures after three years of financial allocations, now pushing $300 billion; blatant logistical support of long-range ATACM missile strikes on the Russian homeland; and the thwarted Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 peace proposals, but most notably the 2022 Istanbul peace talks, where both Russia and Ukraine were set to make major concessions until Western leaders gave way to weakening Russia, even Russian balkanization, over high-level diplomacy, dialogue and peace.
Why a nuclear confrontation didn’t break out during the Biden years I will never know. Living on the brink became as routine as Strangelove.
Why a nuclear confrontation didn’t break out during the Biden years I will never know. Living on the brink became as routine as Strangelove.
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