There's no need for Colonel Baud to be confused about Putin's goals. Statements that Putin made in 2007 are quite clear. He wishes to reconstruct the Soviet Union. That means that once Ukraine is firmly in his possession, the Baltic States are next.
I agree that Trump is quite vague about what the goals of both Putin and Zelenskyy are. According to Trump, anyone who engages in combat is a "sucker" and a "loser." He can't possibly broker a peace deal because he has no idea what the two sides are fighting about.
Is Russia trying to protect the people of the Donbas? This strikes me as highly implausible. Putin uses both the soldiers of Russia and those of the Donbas as expendable cannon fodder, much as Robert E. Lee used Confederate soldiers. There has also been little or no reconstruction of war-damaged territories.
Are you at all familiar with the "human safari" in Kherson? Drones continually circle over that Ukrainian city, picking of anyone seen walking. Public buses are attacked. Overall, Russian actions towards civilians in Ukraine are flat-out genocidal.
You're of course familiar with the strike on Sumy that killed 35 people ? There were no military targets in the city, but the carnage was so bad ***even*** Trump felt obliged to comment on it!
Nah, the way to make peace in Ukraine is to drive Russia back to Ukraine's 1991 borders. Nothing less will result in peace there.
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