Just kidding, we are still in the first quarter.
The president tells the public, that there wont be any negotiations, then tells the chief negotiator, that there wont be any negotiations until after a few offensives that might change your negotiation position.
Then the chief negotiator tells the public, that negotiations will begin again in august, after some more fighting.
Nothing on the content or the seriousness with which you will pursue negotiations of course, because - see the chief negotiator has to tell the public that he cant do his job, until more fighting will improve his “starting position” when he will pick up negotiations at a preannounced date!
See - this is public relation work.
Because apparently the role of a negotiator is to tell the public that currently there will be no negotiations, but to also announce, that there will be some, at the end of august.
src: click
Next you need a Klitschko.
To tell the public, that what the ukraine wants most right now is peace (“thats the main war aim”) “as fast as possible”, but that he also knows, that this will still take quite some time…
You can bet your f*cking ass, that thats the two US PR agencies that are advising the Ukraine government on how to deal with the public fallout on a war that still needs to be prolonged in the minds of the Ukraine, the US, and maybe - Russia.
Pepper in some details like “we need a Ukraine that can survive as a state” (no disagreement here, sea access will be needed), then follow it up with “and thats why we cant stray from demanding full territorial integrity, including crimea.
You need a f*cking journalism thats as braindead, as Lanz is on a good day to sell three completely contradicting messages within one fucking week.
But thats what you do, because you need to sell people on the idea, that whatever you need to prolong the war, is your best chance to actually stop the war.
And this is how you do it, using Propaganda.
Diese Gesellschaft ist das Allerletzte.
edit: Chief Negotiator calling for weapons, weapons, weapons.
He must be tha bomb at negotiating, in August of course. Not earlier, and not without calling for weapons, weapons weapons first.
Atlantic Council who else. The people who brought you “Putin will win unless the west sends offensive weapons”, two days before the Ukrainian Government first started mirroring that plea.
Because we dont care about public perception anymore. We OWN the media coverage.
