“Stopping aid will only validate Russia's *refusal to negotiate*.” This is one of the most pernicious lies told by Western elites since the war in Ukraine began, and w vicious, violent consequences for the people of Ukraine. Russia has been at the negotiating table since *before* the overthrow of the legally elected government of Ukraine by Western interests in 2014. They were willing to negotiate in 2015 (Minsk), 2021 (that would have prevented the war), 2022 (that would have ended the war two months in), 2024, 2025 (Anchorage), and now. The Italian minister is deceiving his own population. It is categorically untrue that Russia has been unwilling to negotiate. What *IS* true is that the West writ large has been unwilling to accept any of the terms they’ve offered, choosing instead — willfully CHOOSING — the path of war in a grossly incompetent attempt to try and defeat Russia. Their bloody and pathetic attempt has failed since 2014 and will continue to fail. This failure is already guaranteed to cost the Ukrainian nation profound amounts of blood and may ultimately already have condemned it to death. But it may yet cost the West a direct war w Russia; a war the West cannot win, and may come at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Western lives (or millions if it goes nuclear). In light of this reality, Western elites are criminally incompetent for choosing a war that never needed to b waged and in doing so may have destroyed the Western way of life…