Trump keeps saying he’s going to end this war, but he won’t say how.
He seems to think he can just tell the two countries to “knock it off,” but Russia is saying that they’re winning, they’re all-in, they’re not obeying orders from Filthy Uncle Jim.
RT:
There is still a long way to go before a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict can be reached, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, citing continued escalation by the West as the reason for the delay.
Lavrov made the statement in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper on Wednesday.
“Judging by what is happening on the battlefield, we are still a very long way off from a political and diplomatic settlement of the crisis. Washington and its satellites are still obsessed with the idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia. They are ready to go great lengths to approach this illusory goal,” he said.
The recent approval by the US, UK and France of long-range strikes on internationally recognized Russian territory by Kiev has become “another escalatory step” by the West, the minister said. “All our warnings that these unacceptable actions would be met with an appropriate response were ignored,” he added.
Lavrov noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “made it clear how Russia would respond to such moves” in his televised address on Thursday, which followed the use of Moscow’s new Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile to strike a Ukrainian military-industrial facility.
“I am confident that all those responsible for causing damage to the Russian citizens and infrastructure will receive the punishment they deserve,” he said.
The minister insisted that “no escalation on the part of our opponent will make us give up on achieving the goals of the military operation [in Ukraine]… We are ready for any turn of events, but we always prefer to resolve contentious issues by peaceful means.”
Does anyone doubt it? Other than the people in the US government?