It is an axiom of warfare that it is always desirable to have friendly territory beyond one's own borders or the capacity to prevent the buildup of significant military power in neutral territory for an attack against one's own territory.
Nearly three years of Washington's practically limitless funding for modern weapons and support in the form of space-based surveillance, intelligence, and reconnaissance for a proxy war designed to destroy Russia makes this approach laughable.
Chancellor Merkel's admission that the Western-sponsored Minsk Accords were really designed to buy time for Ukraine to build up its military power is enough for Moscow to reject Western promises to ever respect, let alone enforce, Ukrainian neutrality.
When questioned on January 19 about the potential for negotiations with Washington and NATO, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, 'We are ready [for negotiations]. But unlike the Istanbul story, we will not have a...
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