The French and Swedes are rushing wanting to spend money not on their own aircraft, but on F-16s from existing stocks, at exorbitant prices, like some Viper for Slovakia (12 units for almost 3 billion). The Germans have supplied more IRIS-T systems to the Ukrainian Defence Forces than to the Bundeswehr, also for this reason. You have to be very alternatively developed to think that way.
Like, for example, to ‘lease’ the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
Well, why not? A citizen sent his son to the army until the end of a special period lasting 12 years, paid taxes, obeyed strange laws, such as the one saying that he needs a reserve programme, but the state is not obliged to provide you with a smartphone.
And now move to a dilapidated former pioneer camp near Vinnytsya, because some Buryat or Dagestani will be living in your flat.
Or maybe straight to Trump or Zelenskyy's home? Who among us can give such an order and make it legitimate, and have it accepted by everyone?
What authority will pay compensation to him and hundreds of thousands of families? This is no longer a faceless "the enemy destroyed" — there must be an order to evacuate. Or does Russia rent serfs, along with people?
And yes, the "demilitarisation of Donbas" is the ultimate game. De facto, it will be the Russian Federation, de jure — an unrecognised grey zone.
But there must be police, Rosgvardia special forces, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the FSB, with armoured Ural trucks, drones and motorcycles. Because how can the state enforce laws without a monopoly on violence?
Got it?
And these unknown drones will now stand in an undestroyed agglomeration, fly from factories, and their crews will be in a warm basement.
And we will stand in the field in front of Barvinkove for many years. I remind you that in all demilitarised zones from Cyprus to Korea, the military of both sides have been serving for many years.
Brilliant, you've been a great help!
And if there is a "DPR People's Militia" with tanks and planes, what will the red-haired old man do? Impose sanctions on Russia again?
The same sanctions that cannot stop the creeping offensive now, and then, when Moscow accumulates gold and foreign exchange reserves, human resources, armour, and makes more Iskanders, will they be able to?
Do they really think in Washington that we are all poor in mind here in this country?
And what does amnesty for all war crimes mean?
There is no statute of limitations for these crimes, and no Serbian-Croatian agreements for the Hague Tribunal were relevant.
Otherwise, everyone will shoot prisoners, force them to sing the national anthem for 1,200 calories a day, and return them in a state of malnutrition.
You can ask General Slobodan Praljak. Oh, you can't, he drank poison live on air. There was also an amnesty, many promises were made and signed.
And what is an adequate military response? I believe that an adequate military response is three more aircraft on NATO's eastern flank. The British agree with me and have done so.
And entering the war on Ukraine's side is called just that — entering the war on Ukraine's side in the event of an invasion. Why wait for it — enter now.
There is an invasion, Moscow has lost a third of its Black Sea Fleet, all the tanks it had at the start of the attack, it is using mercenaries from Bangladesh and Nepal, and it has a budget deficit.
Don't you want to?
And then you will want to when it rebuilds its fleet, tanks and stockpiles missiles? We tend to believe so.
By the way, "EU aircraft will be stationed in Poland." And EU members are already obliged to agree with Trump and Putin on what they should do within the EU?
This is basically a slap in the face — Europeans will somehow figure out for themselves, without the Kremlin's belly-kissing, where to base their four thousand combat aircraft — in Portugal or Finland.
In general, it's not even about the fact that each point requires a separate book of interpretations and rules.
None of the points work, and this is obvious to anyone with even a modicum of logic.
How can we verify the reduction of the army to 600,000? What if we keep 600,000 on the payroll, and how many more will we drive through reservist contracts, hide in the police and staff units, on good salaries at the expense of European taxpayers?
We will cut the Neptunes, but it turns out that they are located in the same Rheinmetall factories that already produce more shells than the United States?
Why can Moscow withdraw from the INF Treaty, but the EU cannot, and we have to take into account these ridiculous restrictions on range?
Let me remind you: Japan has no army, only self-defence forces. And they have two aircraft carriers capable of carrying F-35s.
Exclusively for self-defence, of course. Everyone laughs when they hear this. And this is after all the possible treaties and nuclear bombing.
Personally, I think Washington is now directly pushing Moscow to strike the EU.
I don't know why — to sell trillions in weapons or to finally weaken Moscow before the conflict between Washington and Beijing.
But the fact is obvious: giving up the most fortified area, abandoning long-range weapons and reducing the army is only so that we don't strike the flank when the Russians go to cut Suwalki.
So far, the EU has not rearmed and reinforced its eastern flank with anti-tank missile systems, fleets and new German divisions.
Mindichgate is just an excuse to put pressure on us again: history is repeating itself with the "subsoil agreement". Of course, our partners are investing billions here and reforming the NABU not so that we can squander this aid.
So I think they have compromising information on many people. But Ukraine will survive without Mindich and without Zelenskyy.
However, without a huge fortified agglomeration and with a depleted army, that is not a certainty.
No one will win the elections now except for the patriotic (and pro-Western) parties, as all polls show — conditionally, Zaluzhnyy, Budanov and others.
The issue is not that Zelenskyy wants to remain in power, but that he is conveying the expectations of such a party. This is how democracy works, congratulations.
This means that today there is a consensus — we need reforms and a new iron curtain in the EU and NATO.
It is time to end the war, but what the Americans are offering now is an invitation to a third campaign lasting 3-5 years.
Given that aid during the truce will be severely cut, many in the army, who will be maimed or killed, or whose wives or mothers will be disabled, will never return, and those whom you resettle or who flee the war will still strive to reach the EU — despite the cuts in aid, life there is still much better than the average salary of $500 here.
But since "children" under the age of 25 are not needed in the army, society does not accept women in the army, vocational school reform is not on the agenda, and strategic circus workers and spice packers have been reserved, we are in a very unpleasant predicament.
I think that the EU will roll out its proposal soon and a national dialogue will be needed, because it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight as before, and tightening the screws is a guaranteed way to miss the elections. The time to decide is coming.