What a brilliant deal! Struck up by Donald Trump. The great peacemaker. A man so keen on acquiring the Nobel peace prize next year, that he’d sell his own mother if she gets invaded by rampaging Cossacks! And the tragedy of that metaphor is indicative of the great unfairness, the moral disgrace and the complicity with a murderous tyrant, which Trump has condoned so he can ‘do the deal’. The only ‘deal’ which Russia would be prepared to accept. When they said on the news that ‘Russia is keen on this deal’, you immediately know that it was drawn up in the Kremlin and that Ukraine is going to get stuffed.

Trump presented this to the world, and to Ukraine, who’d been given no input whatsoever, obviously. They don’t count. And he presented it just after a really positive and friendly meeting with Zohran Mamdani, the Mayor of New York, who Trump has been slagging off for the last 3 months. Calling him a ‘communist’ (that’s not a political comment in America, it’s the gravest insult you can level at anyone. The shadow of J.Edgar Hoover is long and deep.) Threatening to cut off funding for NY City. And now they’re bffs.

The problem with Ukraine is that there are very few options. You give Russia what they want or they just keep going. They don’t care how many of its young men die in that process. They’ve never cared about that. It’s always been the way Russia does ‘war’. By massive sacrifice of its next generation. In fact Russia are shit at war. Always have been. They just do ‘war by swamping’. Wave after wave of kids getting slaughtered until the enemy run out of bullets or fall asleep.

Russia invaded in the first place because Ukraine had aspirations to join NATO. Basically, American military on the Russian border. Also, having ‘stolen’ the Crimea a few years back, Putin had designs on the Dombas region because it spans a lot of the border. So it would create a ‘buffer’. Vlad was also never keen on having nuclear NATO so close they could lob a bomb across the border by hand.

So here’s ’the deal’. Give Russia the Dombas, promise that Ukraine will NEVER join NATO, and have it reduce its army significantly. Great deal for Ukraine.

They don’t have to agree, of course. But if they don’t, America will ‘cut them off’. From arms and more importantly from ‘intel’. Without which, you can’t fight a war.

‘Europe’ is in deep disagreement with America on this. Which is akin to a flea on a dog going on strike. Because unless Macron (wimp) and Starmer, temporarily included in ‘European’, just for the duration of this fight, and Georgia Meloni (bit of a babe, but, like all Italians, better at running than fighting), intend to put boots on the ground, which is tantamount with declaring war on Russia, it just becomes so much hot air. As usual.

Basically, Ukraine is slowly but inexorably becoming swallowed by its evil neighbour. And Putin is rewarded for starting the war. Great message to China, Iran, North Korea…

And we lost the fucking cricket in Aus.

Happy Friday

A xxxx