Ok, will try to elaborate on the first attempt in the future.
Another more bizarre aspect of this Russian propaganda effort to both ends of the political horseshoe is the nazbol vortex in which South American loony commies waving North Korea flags, geriatric “anti-imperialists” and ME antisemites find themselves in a perfectly aligned bromance with American alt-right trads.
Fucking Nick Fuentes just came out in defense of Stalin, for fucks sake.
To my understanding, Ukraine is getting mothballed US weapons from storage whose book value is worth “X billion”. Other efforts include munitions purchase and production
Those “meetings” in Belarus weren’t real negotiations. Ukrainians were buying time and Putin sent four lowly stooges who didn’t have a mandate for negotiations except to demand unconditional surrender.
And since the Ukrainian people didn’t meet Russian tanks with flowers, bread and salt, Russians switched to the extermination plan for Ukrainians in March of '22. Ukraine mobilized for total war in turn, and now you have a war that will be decided on the battlefield or until Russia breaks apart, which isn’t that far fetched.