Clown World Diplomacy

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It is hard to understand the clown show, but it does seem to move Agenda 2030 forward. Could there be system to the madness?

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Thank you for such a hard-hitting article.
I hope the right people read it.

Everything is so clearly laid out from the Russian side.

Straightforward. Russia has so far done exactly what they have said they are going to do. Why don’t our ‘leaders’ believe them?

I think they’re not clowns but idiots.

I know a few rodeo clowns. They are the most trustworthy and fearless men. This is an insult to them. Fools, idiots and sold outs, yes.

So, the US and its proxy-- the by now very former ukraine-- start a war, despite a thousand years of historical evidence against them, with the Russian Army. On the Russian Army's own turf. 
They then lose that war, badly. 
Then the losers hold a meeting and agree that the proxy must cease fire and stop being defeated before they run out of men and ammunition. 
Then both losers demand that the army who's just defeated them (!?) also cease fire, or else they're going to continue providing the woefully defeated proxy with 1990s military equipment to replace the stuff that the Russian Army has already destroyed. And will also resume the provision of 3ISR intelligence data that hasn't made a jot of difference to the eventual outcome, already known years in advance by anyone who knows anything about what's historically happened to anyone or anything who's ever been deluded enough to... well... take on the Russian Army?
Am I getting all that right?

We are told now, there is a "ball" and a "court" and this ball is now on the "Russian side" of this court. Do they really expect a "Minsk 3" to be taken seriously? Remember what non- agreement-capable means.

Maybe it's not THE ball. Just a ball, and there are more of them.

What is a clown without its toys?

That witty comparison between a diplomat and a lady may be an old joke but it's new to me and instantly memorable. I'll be sharing that one at every opportunity. 

Diplomacy requires reasonable people to think rationally and yo be honest with each other. It cannot be used effectively in engagements with dishonest, unreasonable people. That's why stable societies need to be employ powerful physical forces such as the police to deal with criminals, especially violent ones. 

Sometimes there IS a military solution. 

Hello Dmitry, I thought I'd look you up three years after you moved off Patreon. I've missed your pithy and darkly humorous insights.
You mentioned: "Why should the residents of Odessa have their rights of self-determination denied while the residents of Donetsk have been granted theirs? Such arbitrariness would be impossible to justify..."
In the period from 2014 to 2022 we could have asked:
"Why should the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk have their rights of self-determination denied while the residents of Crimea have been granted theirs?" Was such arbitrariness impossible for Russia to justify for 8 years?