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I like to get your take on articles like this. What say you?
Russia Said These Foreigners Wouldn't Have to Fight. Then It Sent Them to the Frontlines. - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/25/latin-america-russia-ukraine-war-peru-01091907
"As Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine grinds on, Moscow is looking abroad to find soldiers to send into battle.
With recruitment becoming harder in some countries it previously relied on, predominantly in Africa and Asia, its war machine is increasingly turning to Latin America including Peru, a country of about 35 million people where testimonies from recruits and their relatives indicate that hundreds traveled to Moscow in the first half of this year alone.
The widening of the Kremlin's recruitment drive suggests that as Russian President Vladimir Putin hesitates to launch another round of military mobilization at home, the war is reaching deeper into the Western Hemisphere…"
I look forward to Politico's first article on Ukraine kidnapping their citizens off the street for their army, which will happen never.
But anyway, the war sounds bad. Probably should negotiate an end to it.
Problem is that Putin also needs to want to end it.
Putin has already made 3 serious diplomatic efforts to end the SMO:
- Before the start of the SMO -- Putin proposed talks between NATO & Russia to negotiate a security framework for Eastern Europe and Ukraine, in order to avoid Ukraine joining NATO;
- In April 2022, weeks after the start of the SMO, Russia & Ukraine reached a tentative agreement & initialed it. The agreement kept the Donbass in Ukraine, and ensured the safety of ethnic Russians there. Unfortunately, UK PM Boris Johnson & Biden & Blinken from the U.S. convinced Zelenskyy to "keep fighting";
- In late 2025, Putin & Trump met in Anchorage to discuss Ukraine & potential cooperation & common interests in the Arctic. Russia accepted a U.S. peace proposal, but the U.S. abandoned it later.
https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/09/russias-lavrov-says-us-no-longer-wants-to-pursue-its-own-ukraine-peace-proposal/
It's hard to keep arguing with people who are living in a fantasy world where Russia has no ill intent and never does anything wrong.
hxxps://x.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/2105162405542023397?s=20
Your perception of this conflict is something out of the WWF, entirely based on a cartoonish Cold War stereotype of Russians.
It is based on Russia doing invasions.
For the last few months, Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian military, and their U.S. & EU cheerleaders have been
rejoicing over the damage being done by their drone attacks on civilian targets, deep inside Russia. All over Western media, we've seen proclamations that "Ukraine is winning!", and "Victory is just around the corner!"
This was Zelenskyy's 'Hail Mary pass' -- using the last of its money & munitions to cause maximum damage to Russia's refineries & consumer product warehouses.
The underlying assumption was that the ensuing chaos would cause Russian voters to reject Putin and his United Russia in the first Duma (parliament) elections since the 2022 SMO. Instead -- as anyone with a functioning brain could easily predict -- Russian voters
rallied around the flag, and gave Putin & the United Russia Party 355 seats out of the 450 seats possible. (That's
79%, in case you were wondering.)
The one question that no one in the U.S. / EU media seems to ask is, "How might Russia respond to Ukraine's drone attacks on civilian targets in Russia?"
Western media
always treats any attack by Russia in Ukraine as "unprovoked", or "aggression". There is
never a connection made between cause and effect.
Q: How would the U.S. respond if China or Russia engineered a popular anti-U.S. movement in Mexico, staged a coup d'etat, funded, equipped, and trained anti-U.S. militias to form an army, and helped them launch missile & drone attacks to kill the U.S. President, and severely damage oil refineries & Amazon in the Southern U.S.?
A: I think we can agree that Russia's response has been mild compared to what the U.S. would've done in a similar situation.
As Ukrainian
Iullia Mendel (former Zelenskyy spokesperson) said to Western warmongers in the U.S. & Europe last week,
- "If you want to fight Russia, go to the front lines..."
- "... the western establishment would rather see Russia burn than Ukraine saved."
Mendel has been sanctioned by Ukraine for favoring a negotiated end to the war. She is now in exile, outside Ukraine.
