I Believe this piece by Dugin is perhaps the most important piece ever written regarding the Ukraine situation…

Every personal exchange between Putin and Trump represents a very important step toward clarifying the new architecture of the world. But, of course, the issue of Ukraine cannot be resolved either in yesterday’s phone conversation or in any upcoming potential meetings between our presidents. One crucial element is missing in this picture — our military superiority.

Despite our recent successful advances, we have not yet achieved clear superiority over the enemy in the course of military operations. Yes, we are up against the entire West, and that obviously explains a lot. But the fact remains: we have not yet secured a position of strength from which we could say, “This satisfies us, this is victory — this is our territory, and this is the buffer zone.”

Trump truly does want to end this war. But the conditions for its conclusion must be different from what is currently on offer. And the guarantee of that lies in our military victories over the Kiev regime and in establishing control, in addition to the four regions already liberated, over at least another four or five regions of former Ukraine. In fact, only then could real peace negotiations begin. But we are still far from that point, and so the war is not over for us, because there has been no real victory. A ceasefire under these circumstances would amount to admitting defeat — and that would be fatal for our state.

https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/the-putintrump-alliance-against-the?