re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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our biolabs only mere miles from the Russian border creating weaponized virus birds

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Is “they” Russia????

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We haven’t pushed anything

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We haven’t pushed anything Just stop

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“The attack on Ukraine has made Russian diplomacy virtually impossible in any practical sense,” Bondarev told Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.

“For me, [the war] was absolutely unimaginable, and I realized that it goes against everything that Russian diplomats should do.”

Bondarev made international headlines when he quit in protest over the Kremlin’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Since then, he has issued a broad condemnation of Russian leadership over the past two decades under President Vladimir Putin, whose autocratic rule he blames for having transformed the diplomatic service into one deluded by its own propaganda and isolated on the global stage.

“I observed the evolving decline in our diplomacy [and] its slide into an abyss of provocations and lies,” he said. “But still, until there was war and until blood was shed, I -- like many of my colleagues -- believed that I could still work.”

According to Bondarev, diplomats who cabled assertions and talking points that had been echoed across Russian propaganda networks back to Moscow were rewarded, while those who challenged assumptions and questioned the official line were suppressed. He credits this willful blindness as helping to breed to a culture that allowed for the Kremlin’s miscalculations that led to its war with Ukraine, where it predicted a quick victory over Kyiv but instead suffered heavy casualties and continues to face embarrassing setbacks on the battlefield.

“The further this went on, the more it became clear that [Putin] was becoming the main target of all this [aggressive] Foreign Ministry rhetoric,” Bondarev said. “This works [against] Russian diplomacy, as [other diplomats] don’t want to communicate with people who talk like thugs and hooligans. But this vocabulary was encouraged, as apparently the main customer -- [Putin] -- likes it.”

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The former Russian diplomat also provided a fuller account of his decision to resign and his experiences over the course of his two-decade career in a 6,500-word essay that was published in Foreign Affairs magazine in October.

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Nick Schifrin: Ukraine says that, as of right now, it doesn't want to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. And you seem to agree in your essay. You say that Russia would use any cease-fire or any stopping of the war to rearm. And you write the Putin must experience a — quote — "comprehensive rout in Ukraine." Why?

Boris Bondarev: As long as he's still winning the war or he can present it that he is winning the war, he will still keep power and his course of war of aggression will be forever. It's not about Putin himself. It's about changing this course of aggression. It's about changing the course of our policy, which would lead to change the government system. And that means that the entire political regime impersonated by Mr. Putin must go. And only the major military defeat in Ukraine, in my mind, can make people realize that enough is enough.

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All i said was we can negotiate a peace deal and Russia is looking for one

Its weird how you cant stay on topic

So why is it that we dont want that?

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