Monday, November 24, 2025

A Little Bit On Trump's Ukrainian Peace Plan

I've heard all kinds of hand-wringing about Trump caving to Putin over the latest peace plan for the pointless bum fight between UKR and RUS. Allow me to suggest a historical analogy.

What kind of peace plan would you have offered to France in early May 1940, just before the German breakout across the Meuse?

The Slavic bum fight between the two sclerotic, dying nations of UKR and RUS is an infantry / drone / artillery battle and in those, the side with the most young men to kill typically wins. What if the Ukrainians have exhausted all their reserves and their line is only thinly held with no reserves behind it? Given how long the meat grinder has been grinding, that's very likely. If that's the case, then any peace treaty is going to be clearly one-sided. Putin is going to get what he wants one way or another.

Meanwhile, the real war continues to rage, unreported.

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