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Because this time Russia was serious, with intense preparations and well publicized explanations why the ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles can only be fired by NATO personnel and their satellite guidance. Why it must mean war with NATO.
Because this demand is a last gasp ploy by Zelensky to save his own skin as Ukraine collapses.
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Because perhaps of an unproven shocking massive unstoppable hypersonic warning attack by Russia on a deserted mountain right next to a key US Naval base near Seattle (see Has WW3 begun! Possible Hypersonic Missile Strike as Warning Near US Naval Base . War begins if Biden Okays Missile Attacks on Russia today)
Because European Russophobia is finally falling apart, with even Scholz calling for peace.
Because of a shocking prank interview with Poland’s foreign minister Sikorsky dynamiting the Euro position (see below).
Because it made no practical sense, even if Russia backed down, as there is little stock of the hyper expensive long range missiles and Russia has been shooting many of them down.
So what happens next
The war goes on. Logically Ukraine had lost from the beginning, only for US’s post Afghanistan desire for looting Ukraine, supposedly weakening Russia, promoting its arms industry and fanning russophobia to self sabotage its EU economic rivals.
Russia says it will make no deal until Kursk is cleared of Ukraine/NATO forces.
What is proposed by Trump and Scholz is basically a rehash of the 2014 Minsk agreements which were cynically ignored, as now officially admitted, while NATO armed Ukraine’s far right racist attacks on ethnic Russian areas for 8 years.
So the war goes on and on, with up to half a million dead soldiers. With up to half the Ukrainian population dead, disabled or escaped the collapsing repressive state which is only kept going by declining foreign subsidies, and facing a new mass illegal emigration due to a coming winter with little electricity.
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Thank God!