Finally, this should be at the top of this history: George Kennan, the father of the containment strategy which was US policy against the Soviet Union for 40 years, despairing at the U.S. determination to expand NATO under Clinton and later Bush and Obama. He said ‘we fought forty years against the Communists in Russia and these are the heroes who overthrew them. NATO expansion will drive the world further apart and end in war.’ Pretty smart guy. Solzhenitsyn, no friend of the Reds, said the same, as did Kissinger.
I have heard (through the Duran) that macron and others admitted that they had no intention of honoring Minsk 2. And that Minsk 1 did not include Russia at all. I have never seen proof but have looked for it. Maybe someone knows where to find it?
Zelensky ran as the peace candidate committed to honoring the Minsk agreements. The text of both Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 (which was ratified by the UN Security Council and which text can be found on the UN website) are essential to read. As disappointing as it is to say this, the Trump administration appears to be more knowledgable and unbiased about the history of Ukraine/Russia than the chroniclers at this website.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraine
Finally, this should be at the top of this history: George Kennan, the father of the containment strategy which was US policy against the Soviet Union for 40 years, despairing at the U.S. determination to expand NATO under Clinton and later Bush and Obama. He said ‘we fought forty years against the Communists in Russia and these are the heroes who overthrew them. NATO expansion will drive the world further apart and end in war.’ Pretty smart guy. Solzhenitsyn, no friend of the Reds, said the same, as did Kissinger.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-now-a-word-from-x.html
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1895686431013556395
https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-russia-may-have-make-ukraine-deal-one-day-partners-cheated-past-2022-12-09/
I have heard (through the Duran) that macron and others admitted that they had no intention of honoring Minsk 2. And that Minsk 1 did not include Russia at all. I have never seen proof but have looked for it. Maybe someone knows where to find it?
Zelensky ran as the peace candidate committed to honoring the Minsk agreements. The text of both Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 (which was ratified by the UN Security Council and which text can be found on the UN website) are essential to read. As disappointing as it is to say this, the Trump administration appears to be more knowledgable and unbiased about the history of Ukraine/Russia than the chroniclers at this website.
https://press.un.org/en/2015/sc11785.doc.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule
https://newcoldwar.org/text-of-the-minsk-2-ceasefire-agreement/