Note that, unlike folks like Kemp or their Russian weathervane "colleagues", I don't have a habit to follow a strategy so brilliantly codified by Annalena Chrysostoma Quadrobaerbock. I never made a 360 degrees turn.
For example, I predicted two years ago that UAF could adopt moronic Russian methods of "meatwaves" and death marches, which they promptly did some time later in Robotino or under Krynky; I had even correctly defined steppes of Zaporizhzhya as the most probable Ukrainian counteroffensive threat axis. (By the way, if it turned out quite possible for me, an armchair analyst, albeit with a lifelong interest in ancient and military history, then I strongly suspect that Zelensky, Podolyak, Budanov et al. shouldn’t blame Zaluzhny’s commanders for “intelligence leaks”.)
It was February 2023, when voices of reason like Milley's could have been heard only sporadically in the background of bombastic Ukrainian fanfares:
Speaking about this Rare Earths deal that Zelensky seems to have agreed with Trump, albeit only as a framework, it should be kept in mind that he tries to sell the same snake oil at least the third time in a row, and he debuted with this trick even before the Russian invasion.
