Russian Tensions
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This is a better link.Biden can’t give Putin a written guarantee, because that would be to acknowledge defeat, and would alienate Ukraine.
And Putin can’t back down without one.At least there will be no more talk of an “imminent” invasion until the two meet. Neither side is going to concede anything until they need to and then it will be in the form of a compromise in which both sides gain or can say they have gained something. Ukraine will be satisfied with anything that gives them some guarantee of security.
Russia giving the impression that they are preparing to invade (they know every movement of their troops is subject to satellite observation)is part of the diplomatic manoeuvring and the US will know this.
Interesting that Britain has been excluded from the negotiations over the breakaway areas, in which the Western capitalist bloc will be represented by France and Germany who have more to lose from the economic fall-out of any invasion. In any event, what Britain might want won’t come into it, not that it appears to be any different from what the US tells them.
How would Ukrainian army vehicles get to Rostov without going right through the Donbass?
Biden won’t want to reach any accord unless it stops Nordstream 2.
Recognition of the Donbass could be construed conveniently by the West as annexation, and trigger the sanctions, ruling out any accord.
I don’t think that Dunbas is very important for them at the present time, they have higher priorities
Last month Biden apparently made a gaffe about distinguishing an invasion from a “minor incursion”. Perhaps it wasn’t a gaffe after all? In any event it was clearly something that had been discussed.
Aljazeera and RT correspondents don’t see Biden making any concessions.
RT is an alarmist and conspiracionist newspaper and the participants are just a bunch of conspiracionists who believe in the concept that one single country is imperialist, most of them are anti yankeeist but they are not anti capitalists and they support Putin
Sometimes ICC make good analysis and much better than WSWS
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