NATO's "strategy" was "ideology and domestic interest-based - in some cases based on financial bribery and energy blackmail by the US. It was a strategy of finance and military aid/contracts rather than an actual strategy", pointed out Kwiatkowski.
“If it was a US strategy to create a weakened and more US-dependent Europe, filled with Ukrainian and other refugees, creating even more financial weakness in Europe vis-a-vis the US, then we must say that the US strategy succeeded. Europe is isolated politically and economically - from the BRICS, and eastern energy sources - and it is locked into an expensive, geriatric, war-leaning socialism that cannot be sustained without US overlords and promises. But even this strategy is backfiring as voters in a number of EU countries are choosing liberty and republicanism over EU prescriptions and mandates," said the former Pentagon analyst.
"No, [the conflict] has not reached a stalemate. Russia consistently continues to conduct the special military operation. All the objectives must be reached," Peskov said.
“I suspect the General sees that if the war doesn't end very soon, Ukraine cannot be rebuilt or healed, at least as a Ukrainian nation, with little left to fight with, and little to fight for. Obviously, he has loyalty to Kiev - we often see the Generals who know what is going on are often far wiser than the politicians who have been seduced by flattery of the rich, and megalomania and paranoia. Zaluzhny, as a Ukrainian nationalist, may also be sensing that the vultures ready to pick Ukraine's economic bones are either getting ready to rethink their upcoming post-war investment, or are very close to executing, and he's looking out for his own influence and role in the future of the country," Kwiatkowski said.
“If the war is negotiated to end now, I see the borders roughly as they are being defended at present. Clearly, Ukraine is unable to advance eastward, this is evident," said the pundit.
"If Ukraine becomes weaker and weaker, with both the US and NATO tapped out logistically and unwilling to conduct and participate a direct fight against the Russian military over Ukraine, Ukraine risks that line moving westward, and being forced to cede even more territory in an appeal for peace.”