These Dreams...

... and I don't mean our Seattle girls Heart's great song, I am talking primarily about wet dreams by NYT about "peace deal" in 404. They do admit, though:

Last year’s Ukrainian counteroffensive was a failure. Russia’s defenses in the territory it has captured look impenetrable. Republicans in Washington are blocking further Ukraine aid. President Volodymyr Zelensky is on the precipice of firing his top general — who may well become his chief political rival. It’s a difficult moment for Ukraine. And another year of frontal assaults on the trench lines could make 2024 look like 1916, a year in World War I that brought harrowing loss of life but few battlefield gains.

Oh boy, those kids from NYT--cannot even draw a proper historic analogy. But we know they are incompetent as most media are, but they continue to dream, like in wet dreams:

Vladimir Putin may accept a peace deal that gives him the territory he occupies now and that forces Ukraine to stay neutral, halting its integration with Europe. Ukrainians call this bargain a capitulation. But without additional American aid, they may be forced to take it. A better deal for Ukraine would give it back at least some of its land, plus a promise that the United States and Europe would help defend it against Russia. Perhaps then Putin would think twice about further attacks. In this scenario, Ukraine might not join NATO or the European Union immediately, the prospect of which helped drive Russia’s invasion in the first place.

Yeah, sure. NATO "defense" of 404. The whole piece is an exercise in delusion, but then again, look who wrote it, I mean Julian Barnes.

I have written about security issues for more than two decades. For much of that time I covered the military and the Defense Department, working for U.S. News & World Report, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal and reporting about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For The Journal, I did a stint covering international security matters based in Brussels, writing about terrorism, Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I joined The New York Times’s Washington bureau in 2018. I have a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard College, where I led the school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. I was born and raised in the great state of Maine and currently live in the District of Columbia.

Yep, agree--this writing is a level of school newspaper. I mean public high school. Hm, I wonder if Richard Nixon was onto something when describing American news-papers. 

Yep, media elitist complex. Granted that US media "elites" are a collection of hacks and whores. But good ol' Dick nailed it here.