Russia Offered To End War In 2022 If Ukraine Scrapped NATO Ambitions – Zelensky Party Chief

Kiev Post:

David Arahamiya, leader of the President’s “Servant of the People” party and head of the Ukrainian delegation during last year’s talks with Russia, has revealed that Russia proposed ending the war in spring 2022 on the condition that Ukraine abandon its NATO aspirations and adopt a neutral stance.

“They really hoped almost to the last that they would put the squeeze on us to sign such an agreement so that we would take neutrality. It was the biggest thing for them,” Arahamiya said in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Natalia Moseychuk.

“They were ready to end the war if we took – as Finland once did – neutrality and made commitments that we would not join NATO. This was the key point,” he added.

All that Russia wants is Ukrainian neutrality. Ukrainian neutrality served the cause of world peace for decades, until the US/EU/NATO axis of evil fomented the coup which toppled the constitutional, democratically-elected government of Ukraine in 2014. No one should have ever died for the sake of NATO expansionism.

In Hollywood, Criticizing Israel’s Assault On Gaza Comes With A Price

Rolling Stone:

Hamas’ terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, resulting in the deaths of over 1,200 people in Israel and around 240 hostages taken, and Israel’s military response, which has taken the lives of an estimated 13,000 Palestinian civilians have brought the Israel-Palestine issue to the top of everyone’s social media feeds, including those in Hollywood, a town with lots of Jews in it. And the ways Hollywood leaders have retaliated against any criticism of the Israeli government during the ongoing conflict could start to resemble a new Hollywood blacklist.

That reminds me of a joke that a great comedian once told:

Israeli Forces Carry Out Deadly Raids In The West Bank Amid Gaza Truce

Al Jazeera:

Israeli forces have killed eight Palestinians, including a child, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, taking the total number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank to 239 since October 7.

Israeli forces shot dead five Palestinians in the city of Jenin late on Saturday and early Sunday, and killed three others elsewhere in the West Bank, the ministry said on Sunday. Six other Palestinians were injured in the Israeli raid in Jenin.

The ceasefire in Gaza is holding, but a Palestinian is a Palestinian, I suppose. According to the New York Times, the ethnic cleansing of Gaza has proceeded at an historic pace:

While wartime death tolls will never be exact, experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza show that the pace of death during Israel’s campaign has few precedents in this century.

But the century is young. As the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza continues to worsen, the Zionists are planning to end the ceasefire and resume the ethnic cleansing of Gaza just as soon as Hamas has given up its leverage:

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi on Sunday evening approved Israeli military plans in the Gaza Strip following the conclusion of the four-day truce with Hamas, the IDF confirmed.

Thus it is unlikely that Hamas will give up all of its leverage (the hostages).

The Ukrainian Spring 2023 Counteroffensive Summer 2023 Reboot Is Officially Over

It was never going to work for a plethora of highly obvious reasons. Only a complete idiot would have ever believed that it could have possibly succeeded. The only possible outcome was always going to be the liquidation of tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives, for nothing. Now, the Ngo Dinh brothers ponder what is to come:

Two articles published this week give a stark assessment of Ukraine’s prospects in its war with Russia. One – by the commander in chief of the Ukrainian military – admits the battlefield has reached a stalemate and a long attritional war benefiting Moscow beckons. The other portrays Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as exhausted by the constant effort to cajole and persuade allies to keep the faith.

Here’s hoping that the US/EU/NATO puppet government in Kiev collapses under the weight of its own stupidity before the Russians make it to Lviv.

See also:
–U.S., European Officials Broach Topic Of Peace Negotiations With Ukraine, Sources Say
–There Is No Pressure To Negotiate With Russia, Says Zelenskyy
–EU, US Begin Quiet Talks On Peace With Ukraine As Russia Continues War
–Zelensky Rebuke Of Top General Signals Rift In Ukrainian Leadership

Psychedelic Pseconds

For this month’s helping of Psychedelic Pseconds, it’s the Moody Blues, with “I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band).”