Dear CCI Friends,
Keeping up with the day-to-day news of US/Russia relations and the war in Ukraine is a discouraging roller coaster ride. Military advances, peace talks, military losses, cease fires, threats, assurances – all part of the daily news and all, apparently, part of the process of fighting a war to the end, on the one hand, while attempting to negotiate the same war to an end on the other. It’s exhausting for observers, exhausting and deadly for the active participants.
And throughout all of this the constant, irritating, nagging question persists: ‘How did we get here?’ Or perhaps it might be more honest to ask, ‘How did we allow ourselves to be led into this morass?’
Thanks to authors such as Ian Proud and Kit Klarenberg (whom we featured last week and appreciate more and more for his dedication to truly investigative journalism), we can follow the step-by-step progression of recent history. We hope you find the following articles engaging.
“In a recent interview, Boris Johnson admitted that the Minsk 2 agreement fell apart because ‘the Ukrainian nationalists couldn’t accept the compromise’ that President Zelensky wanted to agree with President Putin.
Claiming that Russia reneged on the Minsk Agreements has been a standard attack line from the west in the past, including from Johnson. Johnson has simply revealed what many already knew, that it was also wilfully inaccurate.”
The Ukrainians failed to confront ultranationalists to secure peace in the Donbas
“There is no knowing what British intelligence might have in store to prevent long-overdue peace prevailing at last, but the consequences could be world-threatening.”
It’s Official: Ukraine Conflict is British ‘Proxy War’
As always, please let us know your thoughts.
The Directors
Center for Citizen Initiatives