if you want to get putin to come to the table and negotiate (which nato leaders know is eventually required), you want ukraine in a strong position not a weak one.
@ianbremmer Dude sir, that’s still a lot of bodies and booty! 👀😬 sounds very professorial and, of course you are right, but? This cost is too high… 👎
@ianbremmer Mr Bremmer, realistically speaking, is this what the U.S. is trying to achieve, an improved bargaining position?
Who is Putin to “negotiate” with? Who is he to trust? Surely not the U.S., which fomented this mess and is now losing badly. Can’t be the Germans or French, who outright lied during the Minsk Agreements. Zelenskyy outlawed his own negotiations. This entire neocon gambit has gone seriously sideways and is only being kept alive thru the erection season. After that it’s going to get memory holed.
@ianbremmer Another keyboard warrior playing a game of Risk with other people's blood and treasure..
@ianbremmer So the next step after the aid bill passes is to draw Russia towards the negotiation table?
@ianbremmer He needs to be scared of losing control before he’ll negotiate.
@ianbremmer Were they in a weak position before they were forced not to negotiate by the U.S./U.K.?