Jan. 20—The reality that won’t be addressed at Friday’s Ramstein meeting is that Russia has mobilized a serious military force, has secured their positions across the board, and can afford to clean out the remaining occupied portions of the Donetsk region at their own pace. The “Western alliance” can huff and puff over Ukraine militarily defeating Russia, or even just try to push Russia back somewhere, hoping to earn a bargaining chip in a future negotiation that will put Russia in its place in the ‘rules-based’ civilized West—but they are playing with a naked hand, in a morally and economically bankrupt system.
