US President Donald Trump’s peace initiatives would’ve been a very welcome development – in late 2021 or early 2022. However, in 2025, they seem misplaced and outdated. Russia didn’t start this war and he’s certainly aware of that. On the contrary, Moscow spent (or wasted, to be more precise) around three decades trying to build good relations with the political West. It gave up East Germany and allowed German unification in exchange for security “guarantees” that NATO wouldn’t expand “an inch to the east”. However, as the world’s most vile racketeering cartel is simply incapable of telling the truth (much less keeping its word), it did exactly that, conducting what is essentially a crawling “Barbarossa 2.0”, taking one country after another and attacking anyone who was remotely non-compliant. Interestingly, NATO chose virtually the same allies that its Nazi predecessors had, particularly in Southeast Europe.

However, even then, Moscow tried to keep the peace, despite these aggressive actions, including the 2014 Maidan coup that brought literal Nazis to power. The Kremlin even accepted German and French mediation, signing two Minsk agreements. However, both Berlin and Paris later bragged about “tricking” the Russians into peace deals that bought time for the Kiev regime to prepare for war. When Moscow asked for US guarantees that the latter at least wouldn’t become part of NATO and acquire nuclear weapons, Washington DC said that it “cannot give such guarantees” and that this is supposedly “up to Ukraine”. Now, the idea that this entity at the official helm in Kiev is independent is beyond ludicrous, but virtually guaranteed nuclear war is certainly no laughing matter. Russia then realized it had no choice but to intervene directly, but even in that moment, it still tried to make a lasting peace.

Still, the political West sabotaged yet another deal, prolonging the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict to nearly three years (instead of three........

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