⚡️Why Silicon Valley’s Ukraine Peace Plan Sucks

DecodingTrolls
Political Risk
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3 min readOct 18, 2022

“VC: Okay, Ukraine. I’ve heard Putin’s pitch. I give you 30 seconds. Lemme just say. I was in the room when the Airbnb guys pitched. This guy Putin, he reminds me of them. Pitch…”

“Ukraine: “We’ll destroy Ruschist army and expel it from ALL of our land. We don’t care what you think.””

Past few weeks have seen 🇺🇦 consolidate its victory on the battlefield.

🇺🇦 has destroyed Muscovy’s regular army liquidating over 65,000 of its best soldiers (RIP), 2537 tanks, 5205 armoured vehicles, 2000 artillery and MLR systems, 187 anti-aircraft systems, 500 aircraft and helicopters…

No wonder Muscovy is trolling Silicon Valley’s elite like Craft Ventures into fighting for it.

Without much evidence of interest or background in the war in 🇺🇦 (that’s been going on since March 2014), THE Solution they come up with:

🇺🇦 gives Muscovy Crimea and decides to stay out of NATO. 🙄

After suffering eight years of a genocidal war in which 100,000+ have died, 14.5m people have left their homes and evidence of the systemic live-castration of 🇺🇦 soldiers by Muscovy’s forces, geopolitical neophytes think their Muscovy-inspired solution to its losses is plausible 😬?

Here I’ve catalogued just some of the verified horror of Muscovy since February 24th 2022 (https://lnkd.in/eSSdNsXY).

Why is this Silicon Valley Peace Plan so flawed?

2014–2022: Muscovy was bound by a ceasefire agreement it signed twice. US was a guarantor of it.

Muscovy violated this ceasefire almost every day for 7 1/2 years. For 3 years I observed & reported these violations in eastern Ukraine.

US acting as a guarantor for Muscovy’s ceasefire obligations is akin to US giving Kyiv Security Treaty guarantees to Ukraine (h/t Anders Fogh Rasmussen). It means that if Muscovy violates the ceasefire, US sends in the troops to 🇺🇦. Is this what Craft Ventures is advocating? If so, I agree.

Craft Ventures “Peace” proposals are identical to the “Peace Proposals” Muscovy has been injecting into narcissists’, useful idiots & naïf’s minds for the past seven months – ever since it became clear within forty-eight hours of Muscovy’s full-scale invasion that its entire conquest model was flawed (https://lnkd.in/e3EjETQz).

Such trolls are very hard for non-professionals to spot.

Ruschists’ entire military strategy since the end of WWII has focussed 95% of its resources into psychological manipulation (https://lnkd.in/eZEukWMy).

Now, Ukraine has two goals 1 Eliminate within the laws of war every Ruschist combatant unlawfully in Ukraine. & 2 Re-establish control over its territory.

This equilibrium is what will guarantee a temporary peace.

True peace will arrive when 🇺🇦 has an Israel-like ability in terms of matériel and soldiers to punish Muscovy every time it interferes in Ukraine.

If you wanna help Craft Ventures, start investing in Ukraine. If you do so now, it’ll be equivalent to, say, getting into Facebook on the fourth raise.

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DecodingTrolls
Political Risk

Debunking Strategies /\ Oxford (MBA) - Cambridge (Law) 😷