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To: Les H who wrote (39144)	11/4/2023 9:41:25 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50998

The Ukraine Peace Talk Trial Balloon A trial ballon has gone up on the NBCnews website. It is testing the public reaction to the upcoming U.S. and NATO acknowledgment of their defeat in Ukraine: moonofalabama.org US/NATO/Ukraine has poisoned the waters by Merkel's admission that they were never going to follow through on the Minsk treaties and were only using the time to build up Ukraine forces to launch a war. The longer distance stand off artillery provided Ukraine is also going to factor into it as the Donbass will need a larger buffer zone for their air defense systems. As Mearsheimer observed, after the four oblasts specified in the SMO, Russia will proceed to take four oblasts surrounding the Donbass. They lie in open steppe which will make it practically impossible for NATO to launch a successful ground counter-offensive in the future. Ukraine would also lose substantially most of its agricultural land, depriving it of revenues to finance a buildup of its military.