Washington escalates against Russia

The Islander

The US WWIII escalation against Russia in recent days:

• first, the US greenlighted and provided intelligence to drone strikes on the residence of the Russian president which also serves as a nuclear command & control site
• second, the US illegally kidnapped Maduro, a Russia-friendly leader
• third, recently seized two Russian oil tankers in international waters.

The conclusions from these events are that:

1. Negotiations on Ukraine are fake and the current US administration has no intentions to reach a compromise with Russia, it's just using the good cop-bad cop strategy in full coordination with its EU allies.

2. Russia should better give up to any pretense it can get something through diplomacy with the West and do whatever it takes to speed up the achievement of SMO objectives using all conventional and non-conventional means.

3. The second Trump presidency just like the first Trump presidency is basically a continuation of the Bush-era neocon agenda, few remember that Bush also tried to deceive Putin into a fake rapprochement with the US while he attacked Iraq and expanded NATO (the first Anchorage style meeting was the Camp David summit).