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Strategies & Market Trends : World Outlook
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To: Les H who wrote (38354)9/19/2023 8:57:19 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 50548
 
A couple of weeks ago, Newsweek magazine published a very interesting article, written by William Arkin, detailing how the Biden administration sent CIA Director William Burns to Moscow in November to negotiate an agreement with Moscow to limit the scope of a future war between Russia and Ukraine to Ukrainian territory and to take measures to prevent a direct war involving the U.S. and NATO. “The United States would not fight directly nor seek regime change, the Biden administration pledged.” In return, “Russia would limit its assault to Ukraine.” The author continues by stating that the US agreed not to directly attack Russia and committed not to provide Ukraine with any weapons enabling them to attack Russia either in exchange for a Russian promise not to attack any NATO member states. What is most notable about this agreement is that it occurred over three months before Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly green lighted the Russian invasion in mid-February mere days before it occurred in the hope that a diplomatic solution would be found to prevent the conflict.

dpyne.substack.com

Much of it comes from this Newsweek article.

newsweek.com

It figures that both the US and Britain blocked Ukraine from agreeing to a ceasefire in the first month of the war. It's been previously quoted that CIA and Pentagon thought Russian forces were much higher and would overrun Kiev quickly, advising Ukraine early on to agree to a ceasefire. The Pentagon estimated less than 100,000 actually took part in the invasion. Washington changed its mind.
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