15 February 2025

Day 1087 War in Ukraine


Day 80 and Georgia protests are still going strong!

Ah, okay. Zelenskyy didn’t unconditionally refuse to sign the American document promising the US 50% of Ukraine’s mineral wealth. His condition was that it had to contain security guarantees.

The US will consider Europe’s needs, but Europe doesn’t get a seat at the table. Zelenskyy wants Europe to be involved. If Europe is to be Ukraine’s sole defender, they should be in the negotiations. China supports including Europe. The US is essentially giving Russia everything it wants.

Very sensibly, Ukraine is keeping its membership in NATO an open question.

Zelenskyy’s speech to assembled allies at Munich Security Conference is well worth reading/listening to. “Ukraine will never accept deals made behind our backs without our involvement. And the same rule should apply to all of Europe.

Georgian media is financially stressed.

President of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelensky and the 5th President of Georgia 🇬🇪 Salome Zourabichvili met at the Munich Security Conference.

People are trying “to second-guess Trump's grand strategy and its super-complex double agenda.” There is no plan. He’s making it up as he goes along.

Were underwater cables in the Baltic Sea cut by dragging anchors? A German Vice-Admiral says a dragging anchor would definitely have been noticed by the crew.

US apparently going to talk with Russians and Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia. Zelenskyy has n idea about this, so clearly the Ukrainians ar not authorized to sign anything.

The Shahed drone hitting in Chernobyl could have caused a catastrophe.

Ukrainian drone operators from the 82nd Air Assault Brigade spotted a Russian mortar cache and passed the coordinates to artillery, which struck and destroyed the target, likely in the Kursk region.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/02/15/war-for-ukraine-day-1087-the-us-has-decided-to-negotiate-with-no-one-for-nothing/


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