Tag: Ukraine

It was not NATO’s eastward expansion that provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, but Putin’s imperial ambitions, argues Wesley Smith.

We now have a NATO Foreign Minister, a journalist with sources "close to Zelensky" and a former Israeli PM all saying that Western leaders opposed a peace deal because they wanted to "weaken", "press" or "smash" Putin.

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, who served as mediator between Russia and Ukraine at the war's outset, has said in an interview that the West blocked a draft peace deal because they wanted to "keep striking Putin".

According to the UN, 2.85 million Ukrainians refugees are residing in Russia, more than in any other country. However, this number cannot be taken at face value, due to allegations of forced population transfers.

A recent article in Die Welt by Christoph B. Schiltz said it was impossible for Ukraine to win the war, claiming it is running out of men and matériel. In fact, the opposite is true.

No papers have been published at the Large Hadron Collider since last March because scientists object to co-authorship with Russian institutes and individuals. This virtue-signalling does nothing to help Ukraine.

It's unclear that Ukraine can win decisively with the current level of assistance. Yet Western leaders seem reluctant to give substantially more. So why aren't they pushing both sides to negotiate?

Writing in the Spectator recently, Cold War veteran Henry Kissinger outlined a peace plan for Ukraine that was remarkably similar to the one Elon Musk proposed back in October – though with one key difference.

The head of the Mozart Group, a private military company that trains Ukrainian soldiers and distributes aid to civilians, has said that Ukraine is "violating the law of armed conflict" by "killing Russian prisoners".

Ursula von der Leyen recently stated that 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, before deleting the tweet. Sceptics claim she let slip the true number of deaths, but more likely is she just got confused.