From ‘The Analyst’ (Military & Strategic) X: MilStratOnX

PEACE WITH RUSSIA IS A CHIMERA

Chimera (ky-mare-ah): A thing that appears possible and hoped for but is impossible to achieve.

Erdogan claims he can negotiate a ‘just peace’, the implication being Russia had genuine reasons to start its aggression. Fico claims that Ukraine is no longer sovereign because it relies on foreign aid. Orban uses much the same argument - while at the same time deliberately stirring up tensions in the Hungarian-Ukrainian population across the border - just as he does in Rumania. He wants the land back Nazi Germany awarded Hungary at the 1941 Vienna Accords. He has zero hope of that prospect.
Russia claims it wants peace but provides nothing to negotiate with. Just a list of demands. These include Ukrainian complete disarmament, withdrawal from the oblasts that are half under Russian control and the permanent cession of Crimea to Russia, let alone no membership of NATO and the ‘de-Nazification’ whatever that is, of Ukraine. It probably means the death of anyone associated with the current regime. Ukraine will be a Russian controlled puppet state.
Hungary thinks Ukraine should be a buffer zone between his country and Russia - because deep down Orban no more trusts Putin than anyone else does.
These three limelight hogging actors on the world stage plus Putin, seek only their own aggrandisement.
Ukrainian-Hungarian relations you might have thought would
Improve a bit after Orban’s recent visit to Kyiv. The Ukrainians aren’t stupid. Zelensky did the right thing, he listened to what Orban had to say, probably with blood coming from his ears and trying to hold back a desire to throttle the frog like face of this European troublemaker, whose population of barely 10 million is one of the poorest and most inconsequential in Europe, propped up by foreign car companies like VW Group and EU hand outs. Hungary is one of the lowest GDP states in the EU - a situation made worse by its corruption and the unwillingness of foreign businesses to invest if they weren’t already there. Orban has nothing to crow about. When it comes to NATO and the EU there is an unofficial policy of not distributing sensitive information to either Hungary or Slovakia.
Yet these nations think they have the answer to the war. And it’s a simple one; you can’t win against Russia so don’t try.
Well that’s just nonsense. Russia has a long history of lost wars behind it. It can be beaten and it must be.
Ukraine had enough of Orban and Fico. Even though some of the refined product ends up back in Ukraine (about 10% of it), they decided to cut the oil pipelines supplying the Hungarian owned refinery in Slovakia that supplies both countries with Russian oil.
It forced Hungary to reveal its hand that it would hold up anything and everything to do with EU and NATO funding for Ukraine. Except both of those organisations have and are finding ways around ignoring these issues.
So now we know who the enemies are within the system we can ignore their persistent peace moves - because we know without question there would only be one winner and NATO and the EU would look like fools if they allowed it to be taken seriously.
So we have to face the simple facts. Ukraine and its international sponsored peace talks are almost as pointless. They matter because they show effort, but nobody is really taking them seriously and they’re not going anywhere.
They’re about making it clear there is a process and option available but Russia will never take it. So the war must go on.
Nothing gets anywhere because only one side is willing to talk sensibly. And that’s not the Russians.
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