Ukraine war updates

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Peace talks without Russia? LOL.

A summit this year, however, wouldn’t include Russia, which has shunned any serious talk of peace and has held onto maximalist demands for any settlement, including annexation of territory its forces don’t currently control.

It comes as the war appears to have reached a stalemate, with neither side able to gain meaningful territory in recent months.

The meeting follows on from a gathering of senior officials in Copenhagen in late June, attended by Brazil, India, Turkey and South Africa. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan dialed into the meeting. Ukraine and several major European countries also participated.

For the Jeddah meeting, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have invited 30 countries, including Indonesia, Egypt, Mexico, Chile and Zambia. It is not yet clear how many will attend, although the countries who took part in the Copenhagen talks are expected to do so again.

The UK, South Africa, Poland and the EU are among those who have confirmed attendance.

For now, Sullivan is expected to attend, according to a person familiar with the planning.

Saudi Arabia to Host Ukraine Peace Talks (full WSJ archived)

If the Net-Zero cult manages to make oil obsolete as the energy source of the world, the Middle East will descend even further into a toilet in under 6 months. I mean the oligarchy dream of the trillion dollar Neom 'Green' city is being funded by Saudi Aramco oil profits.


The US gov push to use Ukraine as a wedge against Russia goes back a long way. In 1948, when USAF was drawing up a list of Soviet urban targets to nuke, they excluded Kiev & Kharkov because of "the desirability of winning the Ukrainians to our side."


Excerpt from "To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction" (pg 37) by Edward Kaplan, Dean of the School of Strategic Landpower at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.