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@ Mike
2025-03-01 10:00:29
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After a nights sleep and now catching up on Zelenskyy's Fox interview. I'm going to focus on the media first.
1. X despite its criticism from many parties, including us here on NOSTR showed full unedited videos from the Whitehouse and Fox news while my own countries media, newspaper websites and legacy TV just showed photos or tiny clips with their own interpretation.
This is the problem we are all aware of. Give me the information, let me understand it directly, let me form my own opinion and then, if you absolutely have to, tell me your opinion. But I'm really not interested in your opinion.
So my views on the situation.
I've talked about the "Both sides being right" scenario many times and I first wrote about it in an article in 2016:
https://mikehardcastle.com/2016/09/08/sometimes-both-sides-are-right/
Russia have never wavered from the line that Ukraine joining NATO is unacceptable.
Europe (and previously the US) wanted Ukraine in NATO for its strategic position.
Ukraine fears its independence and so feels safer under NATO's umbrella.
This has played out with the current conflict and unless we want to escalate this to a world war, has resulted in a stalemate.
Ukraine is the sacrificial pawn, it, through no fault of its own is destined to pay a price.
Zelenskyy has yet to come to terms with this.
He will have to bow to America pressure and Trumps will, but he is not yet ready to do so.
I can understand this. Accepting loss is difficult.