BNE Editor

WWII went on for three years and ten and a half months.

An entire generation of Ukrainians have already been killed

Trump is pushing to end the war this weekend.

The EU is now on the hook for $100bn a year to fund Ukraine’s war and that is serious money. Money Europe doesn’t have.

The more i dug into it the worse the EU plan looks. Apart from anything else it is illegal and will be challenged by Russia in our own courts that will be obliged to rule in Russia's favour.

the EU simply doesn’t have the money to support Ukraine in 2026 and Ukraine will be defeated.

waiting with baited breath

Russians ... see the war goals have largely been met.

As some in the military elite will see, there is no point in fighting on and blaming Zelenskiy for thinking more about his political career than the good of the Ukrainian people.

Putin is digging his heels in because he is winning on the battlefield so doesn’t need to compromise

I’m in the camp that holds the war is lost because the West has betrayed Ukraine

Ukraine suggested a maximum of 600,000 (making it the largest army in Europe)

The Kremlin is signalling as loudly as it can that it's on board and it is willing to do a deal. It said yesterday that it agrees in principle to many of the points in the original 28-point peace plan. [that it wrote]

As you probably have guessed, I'm in the Vance camp of the war is unwinnable, so why go on?

The incident is the latest in the creeping escalation that risks dragging Nato into war with Russia as the US disengages with Europe.

this is also part of the creeping military escalation that should worry everyone.

Russian missiles flying over Polish airspace are simply more of the same.

In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns.

Over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe.

Does Trump deserve a Nobel Prize?

No one thought the Iraq War was necessary, but eventually George W. Bush's preparations reached the point of no return. What else could he do?

Ukraine’s policy of increasingly hitting targets inside Russia – something its allies have strongly discouraged as part of its “escalation management” strategy – is pouring fuel on the fire.

Putin gave away half of oil major TNK to BP. Putin was dead serious about making friends with the West.

you can draw a line directly from nixing the ABM treaty to the invasion of Ukraine.

Trump already took the US out of the INF treaty in 2019, but Russia has been adhering to its terms unilaterally.

Nancy Pelosi is currently the US’ best performing “fund manager” with around a quarter of billion dollars’ worth of AUM after she returned a 54% gain in 2024, according to her publicly accessible tax returns – you know, so that the US government is transparent.

Ukraine is a key US military outpost.

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The US has shredded its credibility as force for global good.

It won’t recover it & now will have to deal with a new reality where America is no longer first

Until the US back icc arrest warrant for Bibi & force a halt to Israel killings in Gaza and its aggression against urban targets in Lebanon it’s lost its right to talk about russian abuses.

If I were Zee I would attack NATO along with Putin!

What does Russia offer? Work. Money. Trade. Market. Etc and all today immediately.
And on top of all this there’s the hypocrisy & double standards of “support ukraine” & “support Israel genocide in Gaza”

What's been the global track record of the West in this time period? Primarily leading the world towards climate disaster and reviving its old brand of imperialism.