This is not something that can be put in easily, he says. It's the only justification laid out to Taiwan. They would try to attack Taiwan and of course half the Taiwanese generals have their apartments in Xi'amad,. You know, on the coast there, Fujian coast, and probably getting ready to surrender and so on. That Chinese therefore they're unable to be serious about any military enterprise. All they want is to buy fancy aircraft and stuff like that. So what involving China and Taiwan is that kind of war, you know, it's a sort of theatrical performance.
US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are ready to do a deal, according to the historian, military strategist and advisor to the US government Edward Luttwak. The comments were made in a discussion this week with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers, during which Luttwak argued that “a shift in the overall situation” has resulted in both leaders being more willing to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war.
The author, who has worked inside and outside of the Pentagon and the US Department of State for decades, believes that channels between the CIA and the Kremlin are sufficiently open for peace talks to develop. Following the aborted Wagner Group uprising at the end of last month, CIA chief William Burns spoke directly to Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, to reassure him there was no CIA involvement in the rebellion. For Luttwak, this implies “a certain overall attitude and willingness to communicate”, while Naryshkin’s very presence in the Kremlin is further evidence that the war could be coming to an end.
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