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Sunday, Dec 28, 2025 - 00:03 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

All He Wanted For Christmas

As the Godfather/Godemprah Don emphasizes in the old classic, at a certain level of Strength/Power, Respect is a greater currency than almost any amount of filthy lucre that can be offered; as explained a week or so before, said Respect has been publicly extracted by the Emperors of East and West (if in somewhat diverging ways) - and if so, can we really denounce the successor of the Tsar of all Russias, from wanting his due?


...was some Respect.

"Every subsequent deal for Ukraine will only be worse - because we are losing. My country is bleeding out. Many who reflexively oppose every peace proposal believe they are defending Ukraine. With all respect, that is the clearest proof they have no idea what is actually happening on the front lines and inside the country right now."

- Iuliia Mendel, former spokesperson of Zelensky



...and three French flags, two U.N. doves, and a Novorossiya reunited with the Motherland!
(Source: bbc.com)


Christmas in 2025 marked the 1400th day of Russia's three-day Special Military Operation in Ukraine, and brief censure by the American Pope on their rejection of a ceasefire for that holy feast. Such also-defiant naughtiness would, by tradition, involve the shipment of coal to Moscow, but given existing energy sanctions on the Russian state (and a bunch of trigger-happy S-400 air defence systems ringing the capital), one understands if Santa has Putin on his Nice list instead. The Russian President has kept up an exchange of season's greetings with his Ukrainian counterpart regardless, made rather more palatable by the fact that he does appear to be winning in the conflict, the steady avalanche of Team Blue propaganda notwithstanding.

Regrettably, valiant efforts by FIFA Peace Prize winner TRUMP on a realistic resolution towards avoiding unnecessary further bloodshed have gone largely unappreciated by (mostly European) armchair generals, whose top priority over the past years has been to avoid getting their own hands dirty. Because, let us be frank: if France or Germany or any of these 欧公子 had resolved to send actual troops to Ukraine in support, one highly doubts that the U.S. God of War would have had any objections. Instead, all they have managed is to scrounge up is a 90 billion Euro gift loan that a probably-to-be-sadly-reduced Ukraine would have little hope of repaying, with Spain still outright rejecting increased spending on NATO, Poland still refusing Ukrainian agricultural imports, and Europe as a whole still waffling on regulations to phase out Russian natural gas.

All this has had Zelensky (who has at least wisely started to dress better, after his White House dressing-down) whine about his country risking losing either dignity or U.S. support last month, and on this, one feels that the time for dissimulation and kind white lies should finally be over: The question of Dignity, or lack thereof, was settled when Ukraine basically acquiesced to a foreign-backed coup that overthrew their democratically-elected President - very ironically named the "Revolution of Dignity" by Team Blue media - back in 2014. All, then, that is left now is the counting of corpses.



Actually, are you *sure* they need 90 billion Euros?
[Embiggen!]
(Source: mangafire.to)


The above had been discussed here at the beginning of the Ukraine War back in March 2022, but probably deserves a retelling. Back in late 2013, the lawfully-elected then-President of Ukraine exercised his executive right to veto an Association Agreement with the European Union. This had armed protestors occupy government buildings in Kiev (with Team Blue backing) and other parts of Ukraine, which had the then-President flee to Kharkiv in February, after losing police support in the (more West-aligned) capital. The now-opposition-dominated Parliament would then take over, and most everybody - in Europe at least - clapped.

For the dissenters, these things are perhaps easier to understand with a pertinent analogy. Imagine, then, that actually-armed protestors broadly representing the views of roughly half the electorate, had successfully occupied the U.S. Capitol (which for purposes of more-accurately reflecting this hypothetical scenario, is located in a GOP-friendly state such as Kentucky), and forced President Joe Biden to flee to Washington state, after the local cops and National Guard refuse to take up arms against the rioters. Republican congresspeople, now a majority, duly depose Biden and hail a Revolution of Patriotism - with Russian agencies later shown to have provided funding.

Not so funny now, is it?

This does not excuse Russia's later invasion, of course, but if one is to Respect the basic principles of democracy, it is difficult to see how the original Euromaidan was justified. It would have been one thing if Team Blue had waited for Yanukovych to lose an election (and then influenced his successor), but quite another to cheer the unseating of a legitimately-elected head of state by force, whatever his personal leanings. Well, as so often happens with these things, Europe - and Ukraine mostly - are going to be footing the bill for some years to come...



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