![]() “What Russia has done in the last eight years, but in particular in the last 11 weeks with this unjustified, unprovoked military assault on Ukraine, has galvanized NATO. Steven Pifer ( Senior Fellow, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology and Center on the United States and Europe And a lot of these families are asking, ‘How did my son die? What happened?’” But the one thing that was noticeable was the acknowledgment that there have been heavy casualties and reaching out to the families of the dead soldiers and saying that there will be financial compensation for them, which there has been all along, but at least acknowledging the fact that there are these losses because the body bags are coming back, the funerals are happening. And we see no prospect of any negotiations, at least from Russia’s point of view. But of course, the brutality is absolutely staggering. ![]() In other words, this grinding war that’s continuing where the Russians are trying to take the entire Donbas but are not having much success, the Ukrainians are pushing them back. I think what it means is Putin made it clear they’re going to succeed. He reiterated the talking points that we’ve had almost since the beginning, that this was a preemptive war to protect Russian-controlled territories, Crimea and the Donbas, from being taken back, from being overrun by the Ukrainian Nazis and NATO. We got a very aggressive speech from Putin. “There was a lot of speculation that we were either going to hear this is all out war or we were even going to hear maybe it’s time to sit down and negotiate, mission accomplished.
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