RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: A former Norwegian defense attaché to Ukraine has a blunt message for the West: you’ve tried everything to stop Russia’s war except the one thing that would end it. Since 2014 there’s been diplomacy, sanctions, isolation, arms, and more than 200 rounds of talks, analyst Hans Petter Midttun writes, and Russia used all of it to buy time. “Aid without an endpoint is not a policy for ending the war; it is a policy for enduring it,” he argues. And the cost of enduring it keeps growing. This month it hit American gas pumps, with diesel at a record $5.97 a gallon, which Trump promptly blamed on Ukraine. Midttun calls it one wave of a “tsunami of ripple effects” from

A former Norwegian defense attaché to Ukraine has a blunt message for the West: you’ve tried everything to stop Russia’s war except the one thing that would end it.

Since 2014 there’s been diplomacy, sanctions, isolation, arms, and more than 200 rounds of talks, analyst Hans Petter Midttun writes, and Russia used all of it to buy time.

“Aid without an endpoint is not a policy for ending the war; it is a policy for enduring it,” he argues.

And the cost of enduring it keeps growing. This month it hit American gas pumps, with diesel at a record $5.97 a gallon, which Trump promptly blamed on Ukraine.

Midttun calls it one wave of a “tsunami of ripple effects” from a war nobody will finish.

His fix won’t be comfortable reading: he wants a coalition of European states to intervene militarily and end Russia’s war by force.  euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/…

— @EuromaidanPress Sep 16, 2026