Subj : Russian humour To : Ward Dossche From : alexander koryagin Date : Wed Aug 28 2024 11:00 am Hi, Ward Dossche! I read your message from 26.08.2024 12:21 ak>> Russian generals and Putin didn't plan to fight at all. They had ak>> an illusion that Ukraine army would support them in dismissing ak>> those who came to power in 2014. WD> You know something? I'm agreeing with you... it was the first WD> mistake... I mean by the Russian military. Do you know, to make a boat rocked and overturned it's necessary to have two foolish fighters in it. One beats the other and the other beats the one. Russian military hoped for quick result and wide support within Ukraine; Ukrainian nationalists has been inclined to fight until the end without concessions, and the bowels wind made their main brains to believe that NATO will fight on their side. Not Ukrainians to be military puppets for NATO in fighting with Russia under the encouraging shouts from the European viewing stand. It was a mistake from Russian side, but there it doesn't mean that there were not any ways to avoid the war in Ukraine. It is true that an agreement had been almost reached in Istanbul in the 2022 spring but Boris Johnson had made all he could to persuade Zelensky to fight. It was also his mistake, in his arrogance towards Russia and viewing the situation inadequately (although he could not think in other way). In short, people who wanted this war were more numerous than those who wanted to prevent it. WD> So here we are now in the 3rd year of a conflict which Ukraine WD> cannot win and Russia cannot lose. Which doesn't mean Ukraine is WD> losing and Russia is winning... Looking at the mistakes taken, people must understand a simple thing - those easy bloodless solutions that were before the current bloodshed are not available now. If you squeezed out tooth paste from the tube you cannot put it back. And every bad decision on both sides have its price which must be paid. When an operating system is ruined you can restore it with a saved backup. It cannot be applied to Ukraine of course, but people now must clearly to see and understand the real point of the crash in 2014. And they will see a real picture -- the Ukraine divided in two irreconcilable parts. So the only viable solution is to separate these two parts and make peace. It has been done in Yugoslavia, it can be done in Ukraine. If the USA and NATO would had started to arm Croats and Muslims against Serbs in Yugoslavia that war would not have ended. But understanding that Yugoslavia cannot be saved as it was helped to make peace. Bye, Ward! Alexander Koryagin fido.fidonews 2024 --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 * Origin: Usenet Network (2:5075/128.130) .