Russian and Ukrainian analysts on peace

Azovites against the EU. Russian analysts on the possibility of alliance with the US against China. Yermak encourages Ukrainians with quotes from Auschwitz.

How are the slavs reacting to the latest directives from Washington? In the spirit of unity and brotherhood, I decided to gather together both Ukrainian and Russian reactions to and analysis of the dizzying peace offensive launched by president Donald Trump.

First, the Ukrainian military hacks - nothing new here, the same old curses of Trumpian betrayal and calls for steadfastness.

Next, the smarter Ukrainian analysts. Azovites Roman Ponomarenko and Tales of the IV Reich praise Trump for giving the cultural-marxist degenerates in the EU a good whooping. I particularly liked Ponomarenko’s speculations that Trump may be aiming to get the EU involved in war with Russia, thereby weakening both and guaranteeing US global hegemony. I also deeply enjoyed Tales of the IV Reich’s usual polemics against western liberals who are happy to see Ukraine bled to death.

Third, the halls of power. Zelensky’s attack dog Bezuhla decided to tell Trump to get fucked. Meanwhile, either no. 2 or no. 1 in Ukraine’s white house, Andriy Yermak, decided to respond to Trump with an atmospheric quote on life in a Nazi death camp. He was trying to motivate Ukrainians to never give up hope. Heartwarming.

Then we have the Ukrainian dissidents. Dubinsky, of Burisma leaks fame, speculates on the means by which his beloved Trump could pressure Ukraine to cooperate. Bondaranko, meanwhile, ruminates on Zelensky’s closest historical analogue - Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee. You’ll have to become a paid subscriber to find out how that relates to Donald Trump. Finally, Boiko reminds us about Zelensky’s unpleasant Russiagate-related skeletons on the closet - rather, the all-too-alive (and serving in Zelensky’s government) Leshchenko and Sytnyk.

Last but not least, a first for my telegram roundups - Russian analysts. Somewhat of an unorthodox roundup. Don’t make any assumptions on Russian ‘opinion’ as a whole based on them - the Russian political space is highly heterogenous and complex. I won’t pretend to be an expert here. But I did find the viewpoints expressed interesting.

First of all, military analyst Evgeny Norin shares thoughts on how a Russian victory, draw, or defeat could be defined. Next, Andrei Pinchuk, former minister of state security of the Donetsk People’s Republic, accuses China of profiting from Russia’s wartime weakness. Naturally, he did so on Malofeev’s ‘Tsargrad’ - need I remind the reader on my theory on the possibility of a Malofeev-coordinated pivot towards the Trumpian US, a ‘Global North’? Finally, Igor Dmitriev, a former resident of Odessa, speculates on the possibility of a Russia-US alliance against China. He ends with some thoughts on Russia’s place as a ‘subaltern empire’ vis a vis the US.

The military hacks

I call ‘hacks’ those large military telegrams who are clearly supported by the ministry of defense, and hence push the usual narratives.

Officer, February 18:

Codename ‘Alex’

Oh, come on, by now many people are probably just waiting for a "peace deal-truce." That’s all anyone talks about. A lot of people likely don’t even care about the news from the front anymore or what’s happening there, because, well, peace is coming soon, and who cares under what conditions it happens? Even in the military, there are those who refuse to transfer to better units, thinking, "The war’s ending soon—everyone will go home."

That’s the stance of the weak, the lazy, those who are just deceiving themselves… But the real struggle is still ahead—a very difficult one. Because not everyone realizes that what’s in the air right now isn’t the smell of peace and the end of war, but the stench of something much worse—a tougher battle yet to come.