EU, NATO, U.S.: All Are Now Committed to Defeating Russia in Ukraine

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Either Russia will win the war in Ukraine, or else America and its allies will, because there is no longer even the possibility for an ending to that war by any sort of mutual agreement between the two sides: it won’t be a negotiated settlement. For one side it will be victory; for the other it will be defeat.

refused to negotiate on ANY of the Russian national-security demands that Russia presented to them on 17 December 2021; and Borrell is now saying that the EU won’t negotiate on them, either.

NATO made clear on May 9th that it will accept nothing less than the complete defeat of Russia in Ukraine, and reiterated, yet again, its scornful rejection of all of the national-security demands that Russia had presented to them in writing on 17 December 2021. And the U.S. Congress is now considering a Resolution to commit the Government to invading Russia if Russia ever does appear about to defeat Ukraine’s government in Ukraine.

Clearly, then, there is no possibility remaining for a negotiated ending to this war.

Other than that — which rules out any other termination of this war than a 100% military one and the losing side’s surrender to the winning side — what are the REAL stakes here?:

For Russia, it is the nation’s continued existence as a sovereign independent nation within its own land. It’s existential. For America, it is the nation’s continuation as being the world’s leading superpower — sovereign over the entire planet. It’s status. That’s the basic fact here: it’s the basic difference between the two sides.