Going fight is there has hardly been a day on which the u.s. has not sought to decisively escalate the war rather than de-escalate it. you will notice that you hardly ever hear anyone speak of a cease-fire or diplomatic resolution of some kind. no, we hear about more weapons and higher and higher grade weaponry so helicopters and heavy artillery last week or whatever the latest batch of $33 billion sent to ukraine. and now, germany has been cajoled into militarizing more aggressively. so the german chancellor with pressure within germany and entice itself into ukraine. and quickly a positive historical moment. and so
By is that there has hardly been a day on which the u.s. has not sought to decisively escalate the war rather thann deescalate. you ll not you ll notice that you hardly ever hear anyone speak of a cease fire or a diplomatic resolution of some kind. no. kind. all we ever hear about are more and more weapons shipments, higher and highers grade weaponry. so it s attack helicopters and heavy artillery, heavy artillery last week whatever might be in latest batch of thirty three billion dollars to ukraine, we don t know. $33 billio we re not even supposed ton all cheer that germany has been cajoled into militarizing more aggressively so the germans chancellor actually capitulated to pressure from factions within germany and also externally to center itself into ukraine. so, you know, that s supposedly now a positive historical omen rather than a pessimistic one . and ial think this actually has to do with the fact that the initial debate around
That was turned to conspiracy or a coup, the american people don t like people desecrated, and they went along for a while, but then they started asking questions. officer sitton nick did not die violently of natural causes, and the autopsy was suppressed for a while, actually babel who was shot was not armed intruder, she was a petite military veteran that was legally shot for the high misdemeanor of going through a broken window. and when that happens in america, the suspect that is killed, the officer that did that, we get all of that information, but we did not get any information about the officer and then we just oppose it to 120 days or a variety of 200 dollars of damage and we see the asymmetry, they were militarizing of the capital with 20,000 the next week with soldiers, and we thought, okay, maybe we are just paranoid let s get some information, we have a january 6th insurrection, so
Recently as either today or just a few days ago, this administration, the biden administration, has said no, there won t be american boots on the ground in ukraine. you have nato partners saying, well, you know, maybe we shouldn t be militarizing and mobilizing as quickly. maybe we should keep going harder with the negotiations and diplomacy and sort of avoid a war. and you have others, the americans primarily and the uk, saying we need to be more aggressive and assertive, and the ukrainians are saying the same thing. putin is trying to figure out what s going on as carefully as we are. and things are still just really up in the air right now. we have learned today the u.s. officials have still not sent a written response to russia s demands. why would that be? in the world of diplomacy, i mean, what is the significance of that? and how much stock do you put in this diplomatic process? well, to answer the latter question first, there just doesn t seem to be a whole lot
It? i think it s pretty important because, again, vladimir putin is sitting back and trying to read all the tea leaves that are hanning in the west, just as we re trying to figure out what s going on in moscow. you have a couple different sort of messages that putin is hearing. in december, and i think as recently as either today or just a few days ago, this administration, the biden administration, has said no, there won t be american boots on the ground in ukraine. you have nato partners saying, well, you know, maybe we shouldn t be militarizing and mobilizing as quickly. maybe we should keep going harder with the negotiations and diplomacy and sort of avoid a war. and you have others, the americans primarily and the uk, saying we need to be more aggressive and assertive, and the ukrainians are saying the same thing. putin is trying to figure out what s going on as carefully as we are. we have learned today the u.s. officials have still not sent a written response to russia s demands.