TERMS FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT IN UKRAINE

26 February 2923

The Daily Telegraph put it this way, "we are out of ideas and lack a long term strategy", which is about right.

Fact is, Russia holds the initiative on the battlefield and China diplomatically.

We are sacrificing Ukrainian lives at up to 1,000 a day dead and wounded, to save Western face.

Ukraine will always be neutral and can never join NATO. It has never, in truth, possessed Crimea (peace to Kruschev) and never will. The Donbas prefers to be under Russian govt rule while Russia has taken or will keep Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. Kiev state needs overhauling and reform to give its Russian-speaking minorities the same rights as other Ukrainians, introduce democracy and free the opposition and eliminate the oligarchs and their corrupt practices.

In other words, a ceasefire and peace talks to end the stupidities.