Quote (ofthevoid @ 6 Jan 2023 04:39)
Only thing this video showed is how inept and completely over his head Biden is. If that was your intent, job well done.
Optically this ceasefire for Christmas that the Ukrainians rejected is IMO a win for Putin although it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. 36 hours ceasefire changes literally nothing on the battlefield but it does give Putin and Russia brownie points with the Orthodox people at home, maybe some in Ukraine and abroad. It's a feign "look we are extending an olive branch but they are rejecting it" shrewd but disingenuous and nothing more than optics.
Quote (Goomshill @ 6 Jan 2023 11:11)
All it would take to defuse any 'optics' and mitigate any dissent it would build up with the orthodox christian ukrainians, is to simply accept the christmas truce. Russia doesn't have any control over whether NATO would accept an olive branch and jiggle their puppets accordingly. Instead they're using christmas to crack down on and suppress orthodox churches in the country. Nobody is forcing the germans, americans, british, etc to all put out statements denouncing a call for peace and demand more bloodshed. Pakistan is dripping with scorn as it nominates erdogan for the nobel peace prize for his attempts to mediate this conflict, while joe biden put out a statement accusing russian of dropping bombs 'on december 25th'
Only the evil and his deamons would propose or support a religious truce after bombing babies and raping their mothers.