Ukrainian forces have retaken the regional airport in the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolayiv from Russian forces, regional Governor Vitaliy Kim said on Monday.

Two persons close to the Russia-Ukraine negotiations (including back channel talks) tell me Russia proposed (1) Zelensky remains pro forma president but Russia appoints Boiko as PM, (2) Ukraine recognizes L/DNR and Crimea, (3) No NATO. Ze told them emphatically no.

Ukrainian forces have retaken the regional airport in the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolayiv from Russian forces, regional Governor Vitaliy Kim said on Monday.

Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender.
 
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face–that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand–the ultimatum. And what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he would rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin–just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all.
 
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said that “the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits–not animals.” And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
 
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

Stratfor: comment Washington peut conserver sa domination sur la planète. Extraits du discours de George Friedman, directeur de la société de renseignement et d’analyse Stratfor, dite la « CIA de l'ombre », au  Council on Foreign Relations de Chicago.
Dans son discours au Council il  explique comment Washington peut conserver sa domination sur la planète. Il identifie également les ennemis potentiels des USA.
 
Friedman voudrait que le monde actuel soit exclusivement sous le contrôle direct ou indirect des USA
Le président de Stratfor  déclare que les USA n'ont pas de relations avec l'Europe. « Nous avons des relations avec la Roumanie, la France et ainsi de suite. Il n'y a pas d'Europe avec laquelle les USA ont des relations quelconques". Cela rappelle forcément la conversation de la sous-secrétaire d'Etat Victoria Nuland avec l'ambassadeur des USA à Kiev en 2014. Nuland avait alors expliqué à son interlocuteur en des termes très crus ce qu'elle pensait de l'Europe unie et de ses dirigeants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kbw... 33]  Plus tard, elle a présenté ses excuses pour la forme de ses propos, mais pas sur le fond. Il faut savoir que Mme Nuland est une lectrice des notes analytiques de Stratfor.
« Les USA contrôlent tous les océans de la terre. Personne n'avait encore réussi à le faire. Par conséquent, nous pouvons nous ingérer partout sur la planète, mais personne ne peut nous attaquer. Le contrôle des océans et de l'espace est la base de notre pouvoir", a déclaré Friedman à Chicago,
Selon lui, "la priorité des USA est d'empêcher que le capital allemand et les technologies allemandes s'unissent avec les ressources naturelles et la main d'œuvre russes pour former une combinaison invincible".Créer un "cordon sanitaire" autour de la Russie permettra à terme aux USA de tenir en laisse l'Allemagne et toute l'Union européenne

Stratfor: comment Washington peut conserver sa domination sur la planète. Extraits du discours de George Friedman, directeur de la société de renseignement et d’analyse Stratfor, dite la « CIA de l'ombre », au  Council on Foreign Relations de Chicago.
Dans son discours au Council il  explique comment Washington peut conserver sa domination sur la planète. Il identifie également les ennemis potentiels des USA.
 
Friedman voudrait que le monde actuel soit exclusivement sous le contrôle direct ou indirect des USA
Le président de Stratfor  déclare que les USA n'ont pas de relations avec l'Europe. « Nous avons des relations avec la Roumanie, la France et ainsi de suite. Il n'y a pas d'Europe avec laquelle les USA ont des relations quelconques". Cela rappelle forcément la conversation de la sous-secrétaire d'Etat Victoria Nuland avec l'ambassadeur des USA à Kiev en 2014. Nuland avait alors expliqué à son interlocuteur en des termes très crus ce qu'elle pensait de l'Europe unie et de ses dirigeants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kbw... 33]  Plus tard, elle a présenté ses excuses pour la forme de ses propos, mais pas sur le fond. Il faut savoir que Mme Nuland est une lectrice des notes analytiques de Stratfor.
« Les USA contrôlent tous les océans de la terre. Personne n'avait encore réussi à le faire. Par conséquent, nous pouvons nous ingérer partout sur la planète, mais personne ne peut nous attaquer. Le contrôle des océans et de l'espace est la base de notre pouvoir", a déclaré Friedman à Chicago,
Selon lui, "la priorité des USA est d'empêcher que le capital allemand et les technologies allemandes s'unissent avec les ressources naturelles et la main d'œuvre russes pour former une combinaison invincible".Créer un "cordon sanitaire" autour de la Russie permettra à terme aux USA de tenir en laisse l'Allemagne et toute l'Union européenne

Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender.
 
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face–that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand–the ultimatum. And what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he would rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin–just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all.
 
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said that “the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits–not animals.” And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
 
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.