To end this war and achieve peace, the demands of the victor must be met. Here we list the demands of all three warring sides, and in the next articles, we answer why/how
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Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness[+] and spirit to the modes[+] of neutrality[*], decency, respectfulness, wisdom[*], objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God’s will), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we[*] designed it, which is listed in the CONTENTS. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please. With this article we start the “Meeting the Demands for Ending the War” segment
Inevitably, people will see that even the worst kind of peace is better than war.
Eventually, they will understand, there is nothing more valuable than human life.
Regrettably, there is no diplomatic solution in sight. There are irreconcilable differences between the two sides over security guarantees for Ukraine and territory, which stand in the way of a meaningful peace agreement. For understandable reasons, Ukraine is deeply committed to getting back all the land it has lost to Russia, which includes Crimea and the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. But Moscow has already annexed those territories and made it clear that it has no intention of returning them to Kyiv, especially because this would be against Russia's Constitution, against Russian law. Also, Russia has already given many chances to Ukraine to keep the disputed territories (except Crimea, which was open for discussion) so long Ukraine would implement agreements such as those made in 2014, 2015, and 2022 in Minsk and Istanbul – Ukraine broke all of them. Understandably, Russia has no more trust in making any agreements with Ukraine.
Regrettably, there is no political solution in sight either, which would require NATO to back off from its military expansion to Russia's borders that threatens Russia's security as well as its geopolitical and economic interests. So, the other unresolvable issue concerns Ukraine’s relationship with NATO.
For understandable reasons, Ukraine insists that it needs security guarantees but it expects it only from NATO although it should have kept the ones given from Russia by simply adhering to its Declaration of Independence and treaties with Russia.
Russia was honoring all its obligations until Ukraine broke its promises – Russia only infringed on Ukraine's territorial integrity after Ukraine violated all key agreements[*] that were providing it with the security guarantees. All deals were off then.
By harming Russia, Ukraine was foolish to expect Russia not to harm it back. If you play with fire you get burned. If you poke a bear, the chances are you will get devoured.
Russia insists that Ukraine must be neutral and must end its NATO-funded militarization to threaten Russia's security. In fact, that issue of NATO-Ukraine relationship was the main cause of the present war and the main means to end it, even if NATO foreign policy elites refuse to admit it.
As the video[»] with Davyd Arakhamia (the head of Zelensky's political party and of Ukrainian delegation during peace talks in March-April 2022) proves, Putin was ready to end the war[»] in the first weeks upon launching his SMO under one main condition: Ukraine had to enshrine “permanent neutrality” in its Constitution, nothing much else.
The proof of all proofs that NATO could have prevented the war by ending its expansion and abiding by the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act[+] is the video[»] in which NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine to prevent NATO expansionism because he, in the name of NATO, said “no” to deploying NATO military bases across Russian borders.
Moscow is unwilling to tolerate Ukraine joining NATO under any circumstances. There's no discussion about it. So, it is extremely difficult to see how both sides can be satisfied on both the territorial and neutrality issues. One side has to give and that side is Ukraine because it has lost the war on all levels, especially on the military level.
Ukraine lost the military war already in 2022 but not the propaganda war, which is why Kyiv kept using information warfare to delay capitulation that is inconceivable to the big-headed ruling elites and ultranationalists (neo-Nazis or Bandera followers). They’d rather die than admit defeat because a defeat would entail either their death, imprisonment, or downfall. They are ready to sacrifice countless lives and loss of territories to stay in power as long as possible, hoping for some miracle.
Just like in November 1914, four months after the First World War began, with German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who concluded with his war cabinet that the war was unwinnable, yet fought on for another four years because they knew that if they lost, they would be overthrown, there would be a revolution, which also happened in the end.[+]
Although there is no diplomatic or political solution in sight, there is another type of solution, which is better than the military solution: a paradigm shift, which we propose with this peace initiative. For that to happen, a leap of collective consciousness is required and for that to happen, a critical mass of people need to read this document because the explanations and provided evidence will raise consciousness, which prompt the kind of actions or ceasing some actions that lead to ending the war. Such a paradigm shift will automatically lead to all sorts of other benefits, as verified by the Consciousness Theorem[+] – the level of individual or collective consciousness determines the level of individual or collective achievement in all aspects of life.
To end this war, we should consider the demands of belligerents, especially those who are winning the war. This chapter is all about justifying Russia's demands but not to diminish Ukraine's and NATO's demands.
Many people who are on lower levels of consciousness[+], unaware of their delusions and polluted minds (with phobia, fear, hatred, revenge, rivalry, animosity, vilification, contempt, arrogance, victim mentality, etc.), can't see any valid reason to comply with Russia's demands, which is why we made a colossal effort to provide as much as possible evidence for even the worst Russophobes to realize how all these demands are reasonable and there is no malice in them. Complying with Russia's demands is for the benefit of all, even for the Russophobes, except for war profiteers and any other warmongers.
This war will end on Russia's terms one way or another, so complying with them sooner rather than later is beneficial to all who are concerned about saving lives and saving many territories that would otherwise be seized by Russia with time.
Time is on Russia's side. The longer the war goes on, the more Russia profits from it in terms of territorial gains. To prevent Russia to gain more and Ukraine lose more people and territories, we all need to accept the will of God (or whatever you call that force and intelligence in the universe that rules the world and makes all the rules and laws in nature). God is in control and we should not resist the flow even when we do not agree or understand the reasoning behind it. The will of God is evident in all major outcomes and occurrences in the world, as well as omens[*].
Now we will proceed with listing and explaining the demands of all the warring sides:
“We will win the war by going around the world and begging others for stuff. We don’t need to sign a peace deal.” – Genius Ukrainian strategy
“Let’s blame USA!”[+][+] – The genius new Ukrainian strategy!
Ukraine has rejected Russian demands and won’t hold talks with Russia until Moscow’s troops pull back from all occupied territories.[+]
The conflict in Ukraine can only end with a “complete liberation” and “restoration of its 1991 borders,” Kyiv’s deputy defense minister Ivan Gavrilyuk told[+] the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel in January 2024.
On 21 June 2023, Zelensky said to the BBC[+][+]: "We will never sit at the negotiating table with Russia if they are still on our territory, no matter who the president is."
Being just a comedian before he was elected President, dilettante Zelensky obviously doesn't understand the concept of negotiation, as the point of negotiation would be to get Russians to withdraw from Ukraine and not the other way around. First negotiations, then withdrawal (if at all). In what universe has it ever happened in reverse order? What would be the point of negotiations if Russians were already gone – what would be there to negotiate? Russia does not trust Ukraine as it already broke Istanbul[+][+] and two Minsk[+][+] agreements. In war time, peace can be achieved either through the parties’ good will based on sensible compromise, based on recognizing the realities, or by means of one of the conflict parties’ surrender.
Besides, in a sense, Russia already did that once during March-April 2022 peace negotiations, as a goodwill gesture[+] – they naively withdrew from all the northern territories at that time but Ukrainians then cheated them by declaring victory and backing off from the signed peace draft.[+][+][+] Russians were already made fools twice with the Minsk accords[+][+] and then again with that signed peace draft, so they learned their lesson not to trust Ukrainians ever again, especially knowing that Zelensky is not a leader but a US-puppet and that all decisions are made in Washington, not in Kyiv.
Clearly, Zelensky has no idea what negotiations are all about and how they work. Someone who is a professional comedian is not expected to know anything about building bridges, of course, and the same applies to metaphorical bridges, such as negotiations but then again, he should have never been appointed into a position for which he has no qualifications as this is costing many precious lives and territories.
Further dilettantism or incompetence, not to say idiocy, has Zelensky exposed when in May 2024, he said[»] that the peace agreement should be decided by the victim not the victor. No idea what he is smoking to come up with such delusional statements but his delusions are costing many lives and someone should stop him and put him where he belongs, either back to doing his clown shows or lock him up in a mental institution. To those, who still stand by him, we say: learn history to find out that history is always written by the victor, and try to find a single instance in history when victor allowed the victim to determine the peace agreement or conditions. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, to repeat the fatal mistakes. We wish this poor guy all the best and quick recovery but if he does not take some therapy and changes his tune, he will end up like his hero Bandera or in a looney bin. There is no way that he can keep doing the same and expect different results – this is a definition of insanity and he must be insane if he thinks he can keep at it and win.
Zelensky is obsessed with victimhood, playing the victim card all the time, obviously using the Zionist playbook as the Jews are masters at portraying themselves as victims. Ukrainians playing a victim is like Israelis playing the victim of Palestinians, disregarding the years or decades of being themselves the aggressors! Zelensky omits to mention that his army was the aggressor first when in April 2014[»] they launched a 8 year long invasion of Donbas where they victimized ethnic Russian civilians, murdering 14.000[+][+][+], wounding 54.000, displacing 2,6 million, and terrorizing millions more.
But Zelensky is not alone in his ignorance of diplomacy and the bizarre notion of negotiation. Zelensky's master (sugar-daddy), President Biden, too, said[+] that negotiations could be possible only after Putin[+] leaves Ukraine. Naturally, Biden's copycat German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (“the Scholzomat”[+]) parroted[»] it, too, saying there would be no negotiations until the Russian troops withdrew from Ukraine.
British mainstream media the Telegraph wrote[+]: “Biden, the world’s worst diplomat… He has built a well-earned reputation as one of the most crude, narcissistic, and rude politicians of our time… Biden is a president who exudes incredible arrogance while demonstrating a limited understanding of many foreign policy issues. Combined with a series of embarrassing gaffes, his presidency has been a monumental disaster on the world stage… Biden has been his own worst enemy, and his version of international diplomacy is taking a wrecking ball to America’s most valued partnerships and alliances… The Biden approach is hugely counter-productive, vindictive and deeply unpleasant.”
“There will be no negotiations, there will be ultimatum demands to Russia at the highest level and Russia will accept them”[»] – Mykhailo Podolyak, the advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine in January 2024. He controls the entire information policy of the Office of the President and advises Zelensky directly. Greetings from the clown-world! Like with anything coming from proud-to-be-clown Zelensky's inner circus, we are not sure whether we are witnessing a stand-up comedy or a delirium attack. How can Russian diplomats ever engage with such jokers?
In August 2023, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba confirmed[+][+] that Zelensky will never negotiate with Putin and suggested that regime change in Moscow is a prerequisite for peace talks. He said[+] “We can engage in negotiations with Russia after the withdrawal of their troops from our lands, but not with Putin.” Why would Russia withdraw its troops? Just to have negotiations with Ukraine? In the context of the Ukrainian failed counteroffensive, what is it that they think should drive Russians to withdraw? And what would be there to negotiate if Russia withdraws? The scale of irrationality among top Ukrainian and NATO leaders is startling.
Kyiv has been against any ceasefire proposal since this would mean a de facto victory for Russia considering that Russia has had the major advantage over Ukraine with having taken over not just Crimea and Donbas but much more territories. However, what the Kyiv talking heads do not realize (being blinded by hatred, victim mentality, anger, vengefulness, resentment, bitterness, rivalry, animosity, denial, pride, rivalry, and irresponsibility) is, that with time Russia is taking more and more while Ukraine is losing more and more of everything, including precious lives and supporters. It's all or nothing with them, which is why they will end up with nothing.
“The only basic foundation for negotiations is President Zelensky's Peace Formula[+]. There can be no compromise positions such as immediate ceasefires and negotiations here and now that give Russia time to stay in the occupied territories. Only the withdrawal of Russian troops to the 1991 border.“[+]
“Any scenario of a ceasefire and freezing of the war in Ukraine in the current disposition will mean only one thing - Russia's actual victory and Putin's personal triumph.”[+]
– Mykhailo Podolyak, Zelensky’s adviser (with such advisers, there is no peace)
“Russia has won. And so has Putin. Is it possible for you to behave like an adult, deal with reality, and mitigate the consequences for your country? Or must you continue to yell inanities that please mostly yourself without regard for Ukraine”[+]– Elizabeth Ferrari
Zelensky banned peace negotiation
⚠️ On 4 October 2022, Zelensky signed a decree №679/2022[+][+][+] formally banning peace negotiation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, while still leaving open the prospect of talks with Russia under a different president – in other words, Zelensky demands a regime change in Russia to hold peace talks. He should have done some homework, though, before he signed that decree because then he would know that all the others who would be next in line to replace Putin are all more hardline[+] and uncompromising, such as the leader of the ruling party Dmitry Medvedev[+][+][+][+], who calls[+] him “a green tricot-clad provincial clown”, or the Communist Party presidential candidate Nikolay Kharitonov[+] (2nd place in the 2024 presidential election[+]) or communist Pavel Grudinin[+] (2nd place in the 2018 election), or Vladislav Davankov[+] (3rd place in the 2024 presidential election[+]), the leader of the right-wing LDPR party nationalist Leonid Slutsky[+]1 (4th place in the 2024 presidential election[+]) – none of them oppose[+] the war in Ukraine, and Putin[+] is the most moderate and restrained of them all (not sure about ambiguous Davankov[+][+][»]). In other words, Putin is surely the best of them all for Ukraine.
For instance, already in March 2014, right-wing LDPR2 party made a proposal[+] at a plenary meeting of the State Duma to return Russian lands under the Russian flag, and also proposed to European countries to “divide” the western lands of Ukraine between Poland, Hungary and Romania. In other words, Putin is the best of them all for Ukraine.
Dmitry Medvedev3 described[+][+] Zelensky’s decree as favorable because itwill enable Russia to complete what it started during the SMO and achieve all its objectives4.
“The first step towards peace talks with Ukraine should be the lifting of Zelensky’s ban on negotiations.” – President Putin[»]
As long as that decree is not revoked, we will logically assume that it stands and that there is no possibility for Zelensky and Putin to enter peace talks. This is due to both Zelensky's decree (which also reflects his mindset) and the Russian conclusion that it is pointless to negotiate with Zelensky because he does not call the shots as he is perceived as a puppet in the hands of the Western masters who are pulling his strings (which was also evident in April 2022 when his delegation already signed a peace agreement draft[+][+][+] but then backed from it due to the pressure from the UK and US leaders).
For any peace talks to take place, the Kyiv government demands Russia’s regime change, total withdrawal from all territories Ukraine claims as its own, payment of reparations, and war crimes tribunals for the military and political leadership in Moscow.[»][+][+] They emphasize that the Ukrainian people will accept peace only if it guarantees the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity within internationally recognized borders.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented[+] on Zelensky demanding to go back to 1991 or 2022 borders: “Let him dream”. He underscored that the 10-point Zelensky’s pseudo ‘peace formula’ is effectively an ultimatum that demands that Russia surrenders, capitulates, withdraws to the 1991 borders. Zelensky's delusional ultimatum demands to "try the Russian leadership by a tribunal, to force the Russian leadership to pay reparations, to restrain the Russian leadership in its capability to defend its own territory, to limit its weapons." All that while Ukraine is losing on the battlefields and support from the allies in the West whereas Russia is winning on all fronts, including the support from the Global Majority[+]. Someone should put some sense into the dreamer Zelensky but there is no one as he keeps sacking anyone who disagrees with him.
Lavrov also said[+] that the longer Kyiv delays negotiations with Moscow, the harder it will be to negotiate later. According to him, the first step for such contacts should be the abolition of Zelensky's decree prohibiting dialogue with Moscow. Why issue such a written decree anyway? It is a clear message that the Kyiv regime5 does not want to negotiate peace. They prefer war to peace.
However, these demands have no base in history and current reality, which is why no peace talks could take place as long as Zelensky is in power. With such demands despite the Russian high approval rating of President Putin, the current territorial and historical realities, there is no way Ukraine can win this war or call the end a victory. Kyiv is not showing a serious commitment to finding mutually acceptable solutions.
The current Kyiv regime and ultranationalists are at a delusional, irrational, hatred-driven level of consciousness, which allows no peace. Zelensky’s belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is rigid, verging on the messianic. “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides told[+] Time reporter in frustration in October 2023.
This means that the only way for this war to end before most of the Ukrainian male adult population perish is through a regime change in Ukraine.
This is the bullet in the middle of Zelensky’s forehead and red-black ribbon is a neo-Nazi label as Ukrainian Nazis in WWII had a flag in those colors, like German Nazis
However, according to polls[+][+], until September 2023 (despite the catastrophically failed counteroffensive), due to Kyiv propaganda with its triumphalist narratives, around 90% of Ukrainians believed they would win the war. There are different definitions of what winning means but in a biased US-funded September 2023 poll[+], 94% of 2.000 poll participants (random telephone interviews) believed in victory although 68% of them believed Ukraine will maintain all territories from within its internationally recognized borders defined in 1991, including taking Crimea. It is curious whether those random 2.000 Ukrainians could really represent the thinking of all 31,5 million[+][+] people living inside Ukraine (in government-controlled area), especially given that Ukrainian counteroffensive failed catastrophically. If polls are not just part of propaganda to keep up the morale, they are obviously basing their delusions on the triumphalist propaganda of the current regime as well as NATO support and mind-controlling psyops[+][+].
However, the percentage decreases a bit with time:
➡ In March 2024, a poll[+][+] in Ukraine showed that only 45% believed that Ukraine will return the territories it had in 1991. Back in September 2023, 68% believed it.
➡ in August 2023, that percentage further sunk to 60%[+] after it was obvious that the Ukrainian counteroffensive was horrifically failing, (which came as a shock only to the delusional, irrational people while all the others expected the failure, given the correlation of forces, lack of air support, air defense, artillery shells, and upbeat, skilled manpower, as well as Russian strong defense fortifications). Still, twice (60% vs 31%) as many Ukrainians wanted Kyiv to keep fighting instead of negotiate end of war with Russia.
➡ in July 2023, when according to the results of another sociological survey6[+], 77% of Ukrainians were sure of complete Ukraine's victory (with 1991 borders).
According to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) public opinion survey about population's readiness for territorial concessions in order to achieve peace conducted with 1.010 respondents in October 2023, the absolute majority of the population – 80% (in May 2023 – 84%) – remains confident that no territorial concessions are acceptable. Only 14% were ready to give up some territories for the sake of peace.
Apropos Ukrainians being delusional or over-confident about the prospects of defeating Russia, battalion commander of the 3rd assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Dmitry Kukharchuk Strategically said[+] that Ukraine is losing the war due to society's inadequate perception of the situation. He said that the Russians get stronger every day, and if Ukraine really fought with the “degenerates”, it would have defeated them long ago.
Therefore, if polls can be trusted, with most people believing in victory, the likelihood of the public overthrowing the current regime is slim. But the army might do it[+].
Before Russian SMO, Zelensky was very unpopular – the press was slamming him for failing[+] and his ratings dropped very soon after being elected and his approval rate was extremely low in 2020 and 2021, with a large majority of people disapproving of his actions – only 12% people liked him and another 26% somewhat approved his actions, according to Statista[+].In 2022, his ratings soared due to NATO propaganda that praised him as a hero, although he did nothing heroic other than begging[»] for support and aid. Unlike all other presidents during war (Tuđman in Croatia, Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Netanyahu in Israel, etc.), Zelensky spends an awful lot of time globe-trotting – in 2023, he spent more time abroad than in Ukraine as he made international trips to 27 countries (34 trips in 2023)[+]and 14 countries more than once (e.g. Poland 6 times7, Germany and France 5 times) despite his country being at war.
When it comes to Zelensky's approval ratings, unless it is part of propaganda, according to 2022 polls[+][+] around 90% of people supported Zelensky. This has changed over time as evidenced by many videos circulating online with Ukrainians cursing and criticizing him[»][»] and polls[+][+].
➡ In November 2024, according to an opinion poll[+] by the Social Monitoring Centre in Kyiv, only 16% of Ukrainians would vote to re-elect Zelensky for a second term and about 60% would prefer Zelensky not to even stand for re-election.
➡ In February 2024, by KIIS poll (only 1202 respondents), approval rating of Zelensky was 64%[+] while General Zaluzhny (far-right[+][+][+], neo-Nazi Bandera follower[+][+][+][+][ꚛ]) and General Kyrylo Budanov ranked higher than him. At the same time, another USAID-funded poll[+] by Ukraine's Rating Group has found[+] that the share of Ukrainians who "absolutely approve" of Volodymyr Zelensky’s performance as president fell to 22% in February 2024 from 74% in April 2022.
➡ In December 2023, only 62% poll participants stated they trusted President Zelensky, compared to 84% last year, according to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) poll[+][+] The share of those who trust the parliament decreased from 35% to 15% (the share of those who do not trust it increased from 34% to 61%). Trust in the Government decreased from 52% to 26% (distrust increased from 19% to 44%). Despite the failed counteroffensive and no victories on the battlefield since November 2022, the Armed Forces retain absolute trust in society - 96%, while 88% of Ukrainians trust General Zaluzhny (far-right[+][+][+], neo-Nazi Bandera follower[+][+][+][+][ꚛ])
➡ In September 2023, President Zelensky's approval rating fell from 58% in April to 42% of 2.000 poll participants strongly approve of him while 40% more somewhat approve, altogether 82% still approved his actions, according to the aforementioned US-funded poll[+][+]
If polls are to go by, Zelensky's approval ratings are as high as collective hope or belief in victory. As long as Kyiv regime's & NATO propagandists were winning the info war, there was no point in asking Ukrainians “Don't throw away a decent peace offer in pursuit of pie in the sky” but with time, pieces of truth managed to come through more and more, and more and more Ukrainians lost trust in both victory and Zelensky who kept promising it.
Truth is like a flower coming through the concrete cracks
With the Kyiv regime turning on their own people such as the opposition, clergy (e.g. monastery Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv[+], banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church), draft dodgers[+][+], soldiers who refused to follow orders[»], deserters[»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][+][+][+][+][»][»], and bloggers[+] (who get arrested for posting the results of missile strikes), as well as leaking reports on Zelensky's corruption (his offshore accounts[+], villas around the world, embezzling $400 million with his generals[+][+], etc.), as well as other from his inner circle[»][»], or some other trigger events[+] and raising consciousness[»][+] may prompt Ukrainian people to stage yet another revolution (like in 2004 and 2014). The corruption allegations can be used as the main tip of the spear against Zelensky. The question is if the new regime or President would be any better. Certainly not as long as the US keeps on calling all the shots there, funding their players in the government, and bribing politicians.
In February 2024 KIIS poll, at 82% strong approval, the Ukrainian military was far more popular than the president, though even that was down from 89% in April 2023. The next most popular politician in Kyiv was Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, with 30% strong approval, down from 44% in April, and 41% partial approval, which adds up to 71% approval, so Zelensky removed him in September 2024. Prime Minister Denis Shmigal had only 10% strong approval and a combined disapproval of 42%. Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, fared even worse; only 5% strongly approved of its work, while 67% disapproved either somewhat or strongly. General Zaluzhny might be the only one who could beat Zelensky in an election but how pathetic is that? This loser commander-in-chief of the AFU8 whose Bakhmut battle and 2023 counteroffensive, to name just a few, were a total fiasco is the next best thing Ukraine has9?! And he is a far-right[+][+][+] Bandera follower[+][+][+][+][ꚛ] and Bandera himself was a big loser, too, never accomplished anything other than ethnic cleansing and genocide – these are the types Ukrainians chose as their role models! No wonder the whole nation is a loser. What do they wish for Zaluzhny to do or accomplish that Zelensky cannot? Perhaps the MI6 wanted to replace Zelensky with Zaluzhny to sell the ceasefire to the folk. But then again, for that, better choice would be former Zelensky's aide Arestovych who, unlike Zaluzhny[+], wants ceasefire[+][+] and wants to be a president, too, but no luck because Zelensky arbitrarily cancelled elections, like a true clown-turned-autocrat. In such case, the only way to replace him would be yet another coup d'état.
The only question is what would be the breaking point? Some thought that the loss of Avdeevka (nickname Bakhmut 2.0) could be the straw on the camel’s back. But Zelensky's propagandists blamed it on the commander Syrskyi to cover up for that huge failure, thus the military forces waiting to ramp up the coup against him couldn’t use the failure of Avdeevka to rachet up all the propaganda of ‘failure’ as a final blow to oust Zelensky. The knives are out in the fight over the Ukrainian throne.
Another possibility is for a Vietnam-like scenario in which the religious and students team up to stage massive, continuous protests against Zelensky’s religious persecution[+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+][»] but maybe students of today are not too keen or faithful enough to stand up for the monks and religious freedom, especially when monks are accused of being Russian collaborators.
For a friendly regime in Kyiv, Russia would need to cast the Americans out by turning Ukrainians against the US – shake them out of their mass psychosis fueled by Russophobia[+] that was instilled in them by US-led NATO schemers, expose the Anglo-Saxon ‘divide and rule’ ploy designed to exploit Ukrainian natural resources and use them to weaken Russia (because it challenges American world domination), as well as shatter their illusions about benevolence and grandeur of the West.
Ukrainians will turn against the US eventually, as the US will betray Ukraine, just as it did with all the other regimes it installed, exploited, and ruined before. Ukrainians have some serious awakening ahead of them. It will be devastating but in the end, it will reconnect them back with their Slavic roots, which will be a source of recuperation. Until then, they will keep on making unrealistic demands of returning territories that would be only further exploited by the West. Poor Ukrainians never had much use of those lands and their resources as they were largely owned or exploited by Western corporations. Under Western control, ever since the Orange Revolution in 2005 (when the trade deficit started[+]), Ukraine has been the poorest country in Europe. While it was in the Russian sphere of influence, Ukraine had it much better.
Anyone can make demands – even stupid people but it takes a wise leader to base demands on reality rather than wishful thinking. Unfortunately, Zelensky has proven to be far from a wise guy, quite the opposite[ꚛ]. He used to make his living as a silly clown[»][»][»][+] rather than as any other profession that requires prudence, erudition, diplomacy, and leadership.
Zelensky, the clown. “When a Clown moves into a Palace, he doesn't become a King. The Palace instead becomes a Circus.” – Turkish proverb
Zelensky's peace plan to retake all former Ukrainian territories seems more like a pie in the sky than an intelligent proposal. Building castles in the air is permissible from a delusion-driven drug addict but not from a national leader in a life-or-death type of situation. His peace plan showcases a clear disparity between reality and a pipe dream.
Zelensky looking very credible
Russians say that this is not a peace plan but a war formula[+] as it is nothing but a demand for unconditional withdrawal inconsiderate of Russian security concerns, history, and the reality on the ground. As such, they view it as a clear indication that NATO and Ukraine do not want peace but war. The fact that Zelensky and his team keep on waving it like a peace flag even after the failed Ukrainian summer 2023 counteroffensive, shows how irrational and dangerous they are to their dying and suffering folk. What incompetent in diplomacy Zelensky does not seem to understand is that the peace plan cannot be such that it suits only one side of the ongoing conflictand especially not the losing side!
As if all Ukrainian maximalist demands were not irrational and unrealistic enough, despite their military defeats and huge and unsustainable losses, delusional Ukrainian officials keep on adding more and more demands, proposing additional terms and conditions to resolving the ongoing conflict with Russia. One such ridiculous demand was added in January 2024, when Kyiv’s deputy defense minister Ivan Gavrilyuk told[+] the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel in January 2024 that Russia must give up its nuclear weapons!
A senior adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Mikhail Podoliak, voiced[+] a similar idea, claiming that the negotiation should take place only when Moscow “suffers a global defeat,” or at the very least a series of “tactical defeats,” and “internal riots” that would threaten political stability in Russia and force it to “voluntarily give up nuclear weapons.”
Poor Podoliak needs his head examined
On 30 June 2023, in an interview with "Radio and TV Portugal"[+] Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated that talking or negotiating with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pointless because he does not act independently and is just a puppet in the hands of the Western masters, which was also evident in April 2022 when his delegation[+][+][»][»][+] already signed a peace agreement draft[+][+] but then backed off under the pressure and promises of the US and UK leaders. At the end of March 2022 in Istanbul, the Ukrainian delegation produced a paper[+][+][+] that contained the principles on which they wanted to settle. Russians supported this without any caveat and suggested putting these ideas in the form of a treaty and proposing this draft to Ukrainians in mid-April[+]. By then, Ukrainians changed their mind under pressure from NATO leaders and ultra-nationalists who even staged a massacre of Russian collaborators10 in Bucha[*][+][+] in order to blame it on Russia and so enrage and prevent Zelensky from proceeding with an already signed draft of the peace agreement.
In the Russian view, the resolution is in the hands of Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden but Biden has not shown any interest in peace talks. Quite the contrary, Biden has done everything in his power to continue and escalate the war. This is why Russia has no other choice but to win this war on the battlefield. This also works in Russian favor (if we do not count human losses which are not favorable, of course) as they have shown military superiority over NATO-backed Ukrainian Armed Forces, which means that with time they will be able to achieve their objectives to a greater and greater extent and even augment them.
As far as Russians are concerned, no negotiations are needed because if everything goes as it has done so far, the war may end militarily by them winning everything they want. In time, Russia will be able to dictate even harsher conditions for peace.
Anyhow, just as we don't expect any profit-driven foreign diplomats to bring peace, we don't expect hate-driven delusional Ukrainians to do it either. It is the Western public that needs to rise and stop all this nonsense. It starts with raising our consciousness[+] and awareness, so please join us and share this peace initiative.
NATO Demands
Regarding demands for ending this war, since this is a NATO proxy war[+][*], it is NATO that makes demands, too, and decides when this war is over but just like Russia, NATO can't afford to lose this war, as in their distorted frame of mind, they would see it as the victory of evil or as the defeat of democracy and everything they stand for. However, NATO's definition of victory is not the same as Ukraine's, so it might be easier for NATO to call it quits than for Ukraine but also harder because they don't lose lives and territories if the war continues.
NATO's main goal is to weaken Russia (drain its military resources) and from their perspective, this has already occurred to some extent with depletion of arms stockpiles. There are other goals such as regime change in Russia[+] or Putin's removal from office but this is impossible with Putin's huge popularity (won the 2018 presidential election[+] with more than 77% of the vote, and according to polls[+] his popularity or approval rating rose to 83% in April 2023 and even more in March 2024 when 88% Russians voted[+] for him). In March 2020, an amendment to the Constitution was approved in an all-Russian vote with nearly 78 percent of Russians supporting allowing Putin to stay as president until 2036.
Putin is not formally associated with any party11; he has never been a leader or member of any political party but he supports and is supported by the ruling United Russia political party.
A regime change in Russia would mean that the next most popular party, the Communist Party and its leader would take power[+][+] – surely, the US and NATO do not want that. Also, if they somehow managed to remove just Putin, the leader of the ruling party Dmitry Medvedev[+] might replace him (as he did between 2008 – 2012), who is no different and even more uncompromising[+][+][+] – so, it is surely not worth the effort. Or the Communist Party candidate Nikolay Kharitonov[+] (2nd place in the 2024 presidential election[+]) or communist Pavel Grudinin[+] (2nd place in the 2018 election), or Vladislav Davankov[+] (3rd place in the 2024 presidential election[+]), the leader of the right-wing LDPR party nationalist Leonid Slutsky[+] (4th place in the 2024 presidential election[+]) – none of them oppose[+] the war in Ukraine, and Putin[+] is the most moderate and restrained of them all (not sure about ambiguous Davankov[+][+][»]). In other words, Putin is surely the best of them all for Ukraine.
The only opposition leader standing on a liberal, anti-war, pro-West platform Boris Nadezhdin[+] (backed by Yulia Navalnaya – wife of deceased Alexei Navalny and MBK – an exiled Russian oligarch) turned out to be a cheater and ineligible to run for 2024 election as he had not managed to gather 100.000 signatures from at least 40 regions for his candidacy and faked many signatures (submitted too many fraudulent signatures[+], only 95.587 were valid[+]), according to Russia’s electoral authorities and confirmed by the Supreme Court[+]. According to polls[+], he had only 6% chances to win an election anyway due to too few supporters and a poor campaign based on mere donations (never in the history of Russia has there been such a thing that a presidential candidate's campaign was entirely based on donations).
The West has had no one else in mind to replace Putin other than the Western puppet blogger Navalny[+][+][»][»][+][»][ꚛ][+][+][»] (although he was Putin’s weakest political opponent12 but the only power-hungry one whom the West could buy; Russians gave him nickname Analny for his bending over backwards to please the West), which was another pie in the sky to expect him to win an election, especially because as a convicted felon (sentenced for embezzlements in 2013 and 2014[+][+] and charged for extremism 2023). Western puppets and liberals like Navalny would never have a chance to raise to power in conservative Russia, as Russians wouldn’t allow it because they have learned their hard lesson from experience with the US-backed Boris Yeltsin in 1996, which ended in disaster and a total financial collapse in 1998[+]. In other words, Russians are not allowing any US puppet to rule Russia again.
⚠️ Russian Federation[+] and especially Vladimir Putin have not lost a single war. By contrast, the US, which considers itself a number one military power in the world, has not won a single war since WW2, although they claimed victory on an occasion, including the Cold War13[+][+]. Spin doctors among the ruling class may always rewrite history and make it look like they won even if they lost, so there is a way to spin the end of this war, too, without anyone officially losing or losing face, which we propose here. All sides may count their gains rather than losses and call it quits.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, book “1984”
Since the WWII, as part of the Soviet Union, Russians engaged in 15[+] wars or military ops and haven’t lost a single one, although NATO likes to declare Soviet–Afghan War[+] (1979–1989) as a Soviet defeat against Afghan mujahideen, which we debunked[*] but we should also not confuse Soviet defeat with a Russian defeat. None of them were about conquest but about helping the local socialist governments preserve communism whenever NATO tried to impose democracy in Cold War-era proxy wars. At the same time, the US lost many wars[+] such as Korean War (against North Korea), Vietnam War, Laotian Civil War, Indonesian Permesta War, Cuban War (Bay of Pigs Invasion…), Cambodian Civil War, Lebanon (1982–1984), Somali Civil War (1992–1995)…
Since 1991 Russia's independence until 2000 when Putin came to power, Russians under Yeltsin engaged in 7[+] wars or military operations on their borders against the former Soviet republics and haven’t lost a single one except the First Chechen War (1994–1996), which was not lost entirely as de jure Chechnya remained a part of the Russian Federation and four years later, Putin won the second war there on all levels as now 99%[+] Chechens love Putin for it and die[+] for him in Ukraine.
Since Putin first took power in 2000, he won the Chechen war[+] (against the US-backed jihadists), a 6-day 2008 Russo-Georgian War[+], Syria war (against the US-backed jihadists attempting a regime change favorable to the US), wars in Africa’s Central Sahel region – Central African Republic, Mali, and Burkina Faso (backing local governments against the US-backed jihadists attempting a regime change favorable to the US).
At the same time, since 2000, the US has officially engaged in 13 wars (not counting proxy wars in places like Ukraine), whereby they have forced their will onto many nations but the US has lost all its major wars, such as in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Yemen (2002–present), Iraq (2003–2011), Somalia (2007–present), Niger (2013–2024), and Syria (2014–present).
Since WWII until 2000, the US lost many wars such as Korean War (against North Korea), Vietnam War, Laotian Civil War, Indonesian Permesta War, Cuban War (Bay of Pigs Invasion…), Cambodian Civil War, Lebanon (1982–1984), Somali Civil War (1992–1995)…
The point is, since WWII, Russia has not lost a single war while the US and its NATO allies have lost countless wars. In other words, Russia has always been mightier than NATO, thus NATO is in no position to place any demands on Russia.
If what constitutes a victory for NATO could be reduced to depleting Russian Soviet-era military resources and damaging the Russian economy to some extent, then this is somewhat achieved already and NATO and especially the US may save face and move on to greener pastures. Furthermore, NATO got Finland and Sweden into their fold, increasing their forces, which is another major gain for NATO & the US MIC14. Moreover, if Russia does not attack any other NATO country, then the removal of this threat could be perceived as an accomplishment worthy of calling a victory.
Russian Demands
“Very soon the only topic for international meeting on Ukraine will be the unconditional surrender of the Kiev regime”[»] – Nebenzya, UN representative for Russia, April 2024
The main question has been what Russia requires to end its SMO15[+] and agree to peace in Ukraine and then answer those demands in a way that somewhat satisfies everyone involved. During peace talks in March and April 2022, Russia was in fact willing to withdraw from all newly-seized territories (Crimea not included) but Ukrainian and NATO leaders were not satisfied with that, and grossly misjudging and underestimating Russian power, they refused the peace deal, which was a colossal mistake because now, based on new realities, Russia has more demands. Russia’s point is: Ukraine, fulfill our demands for your own good. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army.
It must be noted that a lot has changed since Russia made its first demands public in early 2022, which is why Russia also changed its demands accordingly. Since the war in eastern Ukraine broke out in April 2014 with Kyiv regime launching a military operation against the Russian ethnic minority in Donbas, Russia has been continuously winning on all fronts except the propaganda or info war in the NATO countries. Therefore, as a victor, Russia is emboldened to make ever more demands as this war prolongs and, after years of Kyiv regime playing at the hands of Kremlin by not negotiating a peace deal while they could save many lives and territories being saved, it came to a point when Russia is now demanding a total surrender of Ukraine, a capitulation. Like with German Nazis in WWII, when Russia or the Soviet Union did not negotiate a peace deal but demanded a capitulation from the enemy, the same fate awaits what they view as a present-day neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine.
“Nо NATO membership, no foreign troops in Ukraine, the realities on the ground would have to be accepted, removing the prohibition of the Russian language, media, and culture, and reinstating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church” – Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Dec 6, 2024[»]
On what grounds does Russia have the right to place any demands on a sovereign land?
Russian authorities claim that Ukraine is not a sovereign land as it lost its sovereignty and independence in 2014when the US puppet regime forcefully and undemocratically took power and when the EU forced an Association Agreement onto Ukraine that is advantageous to the West and disadvantageous to Ukraine and Russia.
Russians claim that the future of the territories of present-day Ukraine should be determined by the inhabitants of this country themselves – Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Hungarians, Moldovans, Bulgarians, Romanians, Poles, and Greeks – rather than foreigners. However, since 2014 and even much earlier, foreign nations such as the Americans, Brits, Germans, and French have taken control of the country by bribing corrupt Ukrainian politicians into protecting foreign interests and cheaply selling off most of the Ukrainian natural resources to foreigners.
Just like any other nation, Ukraine has the right to self-determination and no other nation has the right to make demands or interfere in its internal affairs, let alone occupy its territory or infringe on its sovereignty. By that, we mean all nations that have made attempts or done so in the past, such as the US, EU, and Russia (beyond the concerns for their ethnic minorities). The vast majority of the residents of four south-eastern regions of Ukraine exercised their right to self-determination and in September 2022 voted in referendums to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Russia annexed them AFTER the authorities of these regions requested to be annexed. The will of the people was reaffirmed again in April 2024, when an overwhelming majority (over 93%) of people voted for Putin, obviously grateful to him for liberating them from 8 years of terror they suffered under Kyiv regime.
Putin received 95% votes in Donbas , 94% in Luhansk, 93% in Zaporizhia, and 88% in Kherson region. In both Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, Putin got 93% of the vote..
Russia will simply not tolerate an openly anti-Russian state as a neighbor. Neither Russia nor any other state would accept this from the standpoint of security. In the Russian view, Ukraine needs to let go of all animosity and hostility towards its neighbors, such as Russia and Belarus, and be a friendly neighbor that poses no threat to its neighbors, just as it expects its neighbors not to pose any threat to Ukraine. It is not appropriate to invite the foreign military to Ukraine, which is hostile to its neighbors. Just as it would not be appropriate for Cuba, Mexico, or Canada to invite the Russian military to build bases on American borders.
On 6 August 2023, New York Times journalist[+] asked Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, whether Russia wants to occupy new Ukrainian territories, and he said “No. We just want to control all the land we have now written into our Constitution as ours.” He meant Crimea, and territories of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions that Russia annexed last year.
Since the media in the West16 overwhelmingly and sufficiently points out the rights of Ukraine, to balance, neutralize and objectivize the conditions necessary for a truce, we might point to the legal rights and arguments in favor of Russia, which is meant to serve Ukraine and the world to gain some new perspectives needed to come to terms of a truce. Therefore, whenever we highlight the argument for one side more than for another, this is only meant as a balancing act and as means to arrive at the understanding needed to accept the provisions of this peace initiative. We maintain our neutral position to the end, and if it doesn’t appear to be at times, it is only to save time for extensive argumentation. Many arguments in favor of Ukraine are so well-known that it is pointless to clarify them here.
Since Ukraine violated treaties[*] it had with Russia, didn’t hold on to diplomatic agreements such as "the protection of the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious originality of national minorities on their territory" and “not to enter into any agreements with any countries directed against the other party”17[+] (NATO threatened the security of Russia and the EU that forced Ukraine to stop trading with Russia), to name just a few violated agreements, then Ukraine needs to be held to account. The UN has not done that, which is why Russia needed to intervene. Violating treaties have its consequences and Ukraine needs to pay for it. Ukraine was not willing to recompensate for the losses it inflicted on both Russia and Russians living in Ukraine before Russian SMO[+], so now, after it inflicted much greater losses to Russia and Russians during the war, the consequences of treaties violations are much more immense – apart from the cost of lives, Ukraine needs to give away some territories to Russia, which historically belonged to Russia, anyway. Russian leaders insist that Ukraine must accept loss of territories for there to be a peace talk[+].
Even though meeting the official demands for ending the Russo-Ukrainian and NATO-Russian war might not be the real, in-depth solution, we will start by offering the best ways to meet the current demands, and then we will proceed with offering the other full-scale threefold solution while addressing the underlying cause of the war: the conflict of images. Make sure, not to miss that!
In March 2022, President Putin listed[+]six conditions for ending the war:
1. Ukraine has to be a neutral country – not join NATO
2. Crimea has to be recognized as Russian territory
3. The Russian-backed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk have to be granted independence – in the meantime, this demand has been upgraded to demanding them plus two more regions, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, being recognized as part of Russia
4. Ukraine has to demilitarize and surrender any weapons that constituted a threat to Russia – such as ballistic missiles and the affirmation of Kyiv’s non-nuclear status
5. Ukraine has to be “de-Nazified”– in the meantime, this demand has been downgraded to “no foreign troops in Ukraine”[»], so in other words, Ukraine has to be de-Nazified and de-Natofied
6. Russian would have to become an official second language in Ukraine – in the meantime, this demand has been downgraded[»] to “removing the prohibition of the Russian language, media, and culture” because all the former Ukrainian regions with Russians living there voted to rejoin Russia so, they belong to Russia now.
In the meantime, Russia's demands increased. As the war has prolonged and the reality on the ground remains in favor of Russia, logically, the Kremlin adjusts its goals to that new reality.
In July 2022[+], Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed out that the territorial objective changed because “Now the geography is different,” noting that military factors, not politics, will decide the final military demarcation line. He referred to Ukraine receiving 300-kilometer ammunition (HIMARS) in June 2022, which moved Russian geographic objectives further (300km; until the Dnieper River) from the borderline of that time to secure Russian territories being out of shooting range. And after Ukraine received even longer-range Storm Shadow missiles in May 2023, that moved Russian geographic objectives even further (600km) – they demand a demilitarized zone (buffer or sanitary zone – a "cordon sanitaire"[+][+]) 600 km from all their borders with Ukraine, which means all the way until Lviv. The higher the range of weapons in Ukraine, the greater the distance from the military demarcation line to Russian borders will be set by the Russians. As long as the anti-Russian Kyiv regime acquires weapons that pose a direct threat to Russian territory, Russians will need to push the border accordingly to secure their territories being out of range of Ukrainian missiles.
In October 2022, another demand was added – the recognition of “new territorial realities” – commonly understood to mean the decision of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk to join Russia. So, the initial third demand regarding Donbas18 has increased – instead of recognition of the independence of these two republics, now they demand recognition of them as Russian territory.
Moscow has now also requirements for the international community, in particular for NATO states. Just like Kyiv, foreign governments are required to recognize the "new territorial realities", that is, the accession of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to Russia.
Russia will likely seek guarantees from the West that Ukraine will remain in Russia's sphere of influence and so will not join NATO or be granted membership to the European Union.
Also, Russia demands the West to pay for restoring the civilian infrastructure that has been destroyed due to the West prolonging the war by militarizing Ukraine.
Also, the initial sixth demand is reformulated as the protection of the Russian language and the rights of Russian-speaking citizens, as well as all other ethnic groups. In other words, with the majority of Russian-speaking regions becoming part of Russia, there is no longer a need for the Russian language to become an official second language in Ukraine.
In March 2023, the Kremlin renewed its conditions[+]. As Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia said, the future of Ukraine itself will depend on how soon Kyiv and its Western backers come to grips with reality (on the battlefield and referendum results of four regions aligned with the human right to self-determination). Moscow offered a 10-point Ukraine peace plan – a list of things the government in Kyiv needs to do for hostilities to cease[+].
Apart from the six previous demands, Russia may also demand:
7. recognition of all annexed and seized territories as part of Russia – Russia demands that the realities on the ground have to be accepted
8. reinstating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – removing the prohibition of the UOC and religious prosecution[+][+][+][+][+], persecution, killing[»] of the clergy, and forced eviction of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra[+] monastery by the Kyiv regime
9. restoring Ukraine's contractual and legal base with Russia and the CIS[+] – reopening the border with Russia and restoring the legal framework of Ukraine's relations with Moscow and other ex-Soviet republics. Ukraine formally ended its participation in CIS statutory bodies in 2018, although it had stopped participating in the organization in 2014 following the US-backed coup/revolution that put anti-Russian US-puppets in power.
10. restoring the civilian infrastructure that has been destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014 – at the expense of the West (that has caused all the destruction by provoking and prolonging the war by funding and arming Ukraine)
11. lifting of all anti-Russian sanctions, embargoes, and unfreezing all Russian assets
12. the withdrawal of claims and termination of prosecutions against Russia, its individuals and legal entities – presumably including the recent International Criminal Court (ICC) warrants for President Vladimir Putin and the children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova
We assume that, as Russia advances, there will be some additional demands, such as:
· the release of all frozen Russian assets – give backall money stolen from Russia immediately with interest
· contraction of NATO to the status of 1991(when NATO leaders promised “there would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east”[+pg.6])
· the punishment of Ukrainian war criminals between 2014-2021 who caused the escalation of the conflict that led to this war
· a change of cap on the price of Russian oil
· reparation for Nord Stream pipelines
As of end-2024, the official Russian demands are:
1️⃣ Crimea is recognized as a territory of Russia[*]
2️⃣ Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson are recognized as territories of Russia (this is an update from the initial demand, which was that independence be granted to the People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk)[*]
3️⃣ Ukraine doesn't enter NATOand maintains a position of neutrality – NATO’s guarantee or a ban on Ukraine ever entering the alliance[*]
4️⃣ De-militarization of Ukraine – Ukraine demilitarizes and surrenders any weapons that constitute a threat to Russia; Kyiv must also confirm its non-nuclear status[*]including no foreign troops in Ukraine
6️⃣ The protection of the Russian language and the rights of Russian-speaking citizens, as well as all other ethnic groups – removing the prohibition of the Russian language, media, and culture[*]
7️⃣ Reinstating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
8️⃣ Restoring Ukraine's contractual and legal base with Russia and the CIS[+]
9️⃣ Restoring the civilian infrastructure that has been destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine after 2014 – at the expense of the West (incl. Nord Stream pipelines)
1️⃣0️⃣ Lifting of all anti-Russian sanctions, embargoes, and unfreezing all Russian assets
1️⃣1️⃣ Withdrawing all claims and termination of prosecutions against Russia, its individuals, and legal entities
In other words,
· if Ukraine wants other nations to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine, honor its legislation, and preclude interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine, then it should not allow the US, UK, and EU to interfere in their internal affairs, as well as respect human rights and its minorities and stick to the agreements and treaties with other nations.
· if Russia doesn’t want Ukraine or any other nation to interfere in its domestic politics, then it should do the same – not interfere in Ukrainian or any other nation's internal affairs other than diplomatically protect the rights of its diaspora.
Let us address these demands from a place of neutrality, impartiality, and objectivity so as to meet them one way or another — pleace proceed to the next article on meeting the demand about recognizing Crimea as part of Russia.
Thank you for reading this article and participating in this peace initiative by raising your awareness and, hopefully, your consciousness and spirit. To properly grasp everything, we[*]recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative for Ukraine in the proper order, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we recommend that you do. When you are ready, please proceed to the next article in this “Meeting the Demands for Ending the War” segment: Why should Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia?
Leonid Slutsky stated that members of the Azov regiment among the captured soldiers should be executed, and that they do not deserve to live. He also called Zelensky's "peace formula" as a "formula for war".
Russian SMO objectives: prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, liberate ethnic Russians and facilitate them to freely speak Russian language (which Kyiv regime banned from 30 spheres of life), keep Crimea (as well as secure water and electricity supply for it along with a land-bridge to it), demilitarize not just Ukraine but also NATO (depleted its stockpiles[+][+][+][+][+][+]), denazify Ukraine.
On top of it all, Russia has even taken most of the Ukrainian crown jewels – seized one-fifth of Ukraine[+] (over 100.000 square kilometers) that historically belonged to Russia with all its natural resources. Apart from a military victory, Russia also won on all other levels, including on economic[+][+][ꚛ][+] and geopolitical levels (87%[+] of the world sides with Russia, BRICS expansion, multipolarity, de-dollarization, NATO's division[+]). They also destroyed many US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, thwarted child & organ trafficking, crushed NATO's economies, inspired and empowered their allies in Africa and Middle east to decolonize themselves from NATO and Israel.
Russia gained at least $12,4 trillion[+] worth of former Ukraine's energy, metal, and mineral deposits that before the conflict, in 2013, used to generate $43,3 billion a year[+], not to mention all the agricultural profitable land, companies, factories, and industrial zones, as well as around 8 million of new tax-payers (Russians collect over $2 billion[+] in tax revenues from four new regions every year) and labor power that will multiply with time.
we refer to Kyiv as a regime[+] due to its oppressive and repressive policies, corruption, and foul treatment of its ethnic minorities, such as the ethnic Russians, violating their human rights, tyrannizing, and killing them since 2014.
a sociological survey of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV), conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Center for Political Sociology, published by Opora
this is the guy who complained how the West has not given him enough weapons and ammunition but despite scarcity, he complained about not being allowed to strike Russia rather than use scarce resources to retake occupied territories - where is his brain?
massacre of Russian collaborators is eveident by the fact that they wore white armbands and by the fact that Kyiv is concealing the list of all victims, which would reveal the identity of ethnic Russians and Russian sympathizers
He is a leader of a political coalition in Russia – The All-Russia People's Front[+] (ONF in Russian), which was founded in 2011 to provide the ruling United Russia party with "new ideas, new suggestions, and new faces", aiming to forge formal alliances between the political parties and numerous Russian NGOs.
he never posed any threat to Putin as he was very unpopular in Russia – with his party, he had only around 2% liberal pro-West supporters who oppose Russian traditions and conservative values and as traitors team up with Russian enemies
The Soviet Union did not collapse because of the Cold War with the West but because they opened their arms to the West during the Cold War and believed NATO leaders promises about not expanding eastwards; the Soviet Union collapsed on its own – a great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within; Russia was then plagued for a decade by American bribery under the US-puppet corrupt Yeltsin regime that created many pro-Western oligarchs but Russian folk and the new Putin regime never submitted to American powers; some may argue that the Cold War never really ended[+]
Treaty (Article 6) prescribed both parties “shall not conclude any treaties with third countries against the other Party. Neither Party shall allow its territory to be used to the detriment of the security of the other Party.”
Donbas[+] is a coal mining region that was part of eastern Ukraine from 1922-2022 (now part of Russia) consisting of two Republics - Donetsk and Luhansk - where most residents have been Russians for centuries. In 2022, after Bolsheviks defeated the Ukrainian nationalists, Lenin gave that part of former Russian Empire with mostly ethnic Russian residents to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine under condition that it remains part of the Soviet Union and under Moscow governance (Kyiv administration) but in 1991, Ukraine violated that agreement by breaking off from the Soviet Union and from Moscow, and since 2014, Ukrainians had been demolishing all Lenin's monuments, therefore they have no rights to claim the territories he conditionally granted them. Since Ukrainians hate Lenin and Stalin so much that they demonize them, then in the Russian view[+], it is only fair to give back all the land[ꚛ] that Lenin and Stalin allocated to Soviet Ukraine, without even asking the locals’ permission (the majority were Russians in Donbas).
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