blog de Mario Daniel

  As I sit to write these lines, the news is that Ukraine troops are being encircled and losing the Kursk oblast they invaded months ago in order to have a chip in a possible and hypothetical future peace negotiations with Russia. In the last few days I had the chance to watch Prof. Jeffrey Sachs ' 1 hour 33' speech before the EU Parliament ( here ), and I have also been following Prof. John Mearsheimer's opinions on such delicate topics as Ukraine, Russia, USA, Europe, China. It is amazing to see such prestigious scholars, who have been in the international relations arena for so many years, converge to the same point: they almost exactly reproduce Trump's words, blame Ukraine for the war, and accuse president Zelensky of "dragging his country into it" . They  also accuse Europe, especially Britain and France , of "rejecting peace" and fueling Ukraine to continue at war. Incredibly, none of these two prestigious professors say a word about Rus...

  The figure above was posted by someone in an American thread on Twitter. One of the largely repeated promises during Trump's presidential campaign was that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war "in 24 hours" . He never said how he would do that, but since he said it would be "for humanitarian reasons" , many of us were led to believe he was being truthful. He has now been in power for a month and the only thing he has effectively done so far is to announce the end of the U.S. military aid to Ukraine, a torn-apart country that is now being  served on a silver plate to Russia . I have just seen Trump say that "Ukraine should have given up land three years ago" in order to put an end to war, and he also called President Zelensky a dictator. Volodymyr Zelensky was voted by the Ukrainian people in general elections, that is why he is president.  Those words might be an indication that Trump may be in the early stages of dementia. In 2022,  Ukraine was i...