Zelensky Is Biding His Time?
Kind of hard on his peeps, isn’t that?
Very interesting.
This illustrates much more accurately what is going on then any Western or Russian news or media portrays.
To paraphrase Jesus, by their fruits you will know them.
Red State was Nevertrump even well into Trump’s presidency.
I guess they’ll be parroting CIA propaganda even as they’re being spied on and hauled into FISA court.
I guess Kosovo must be an ‘astroturfed statelet” and a “sham statelet”.
This type of claim reminds me of the daily click-baity type of declarations saying “Ben Shapiro destroys -insert name here - !” Fun in pep-talky/don’t feel down way, I guess.
Everybody’s red map of Ukraine is different.
The plan is not any different from the original Russian objectives. It won’t be implemented though, because the Ukrainian government is a bunch of puppets and their sponsors want to fight to the last Ukrainian.
Russia has broken every agreement thay have ever signed.
This agreement does show that Putin is trying to save face and desperately figure out a way to weasal out of his huge screwup. The Ukrainians should wait for the US weapns and keep taking out Russian armor and planes. 2000 Javelins should take out almost every tank in country.
Regards,
How the heck can “security guarantees” mean anything whatsoever without troops in place to back them up?
What would the Ukrainian military be supposed to arm with? Toothpicks? Or do they develop their own weapons systems (and what would keep them from copying Western systems, esp. if the West slips them a little help?) I’m pretty darn sure the Ukes have the tech capacity to build some fairly decent weapons.
Moreover, the long term threat to Russia is not NATO. NATO would prefer to park 95% of the time, run a few exercises the rest, deter Putin from nutso adventures, have a few conferences on that subject, eat, drink, and be merry. Maybe bomb a few terrorists somewhere for practice. Actual aggression against Russia is the last thing they want to engage in.
OTOH, the EU is an existential threat to Russia’s whole power structure as it has been for a long time. (Tsars, oligarchs, corruption, etc.) Rid of the worst of the corruption by EU requirements & regs, an economically vibrant Ukraine would “seep” into Belarus’ and Russia’s peoples’ mindset, much as the success of Poland and others convinced many Ukrainians, esp. those under 40, to, despite some reservations, conclude “going West” was a far better option than sticking with the old Russian can of worms.
This will be worsened because the increasing repression in Russia will be a very hard thing to back out of, and an even harder thing to maintain long term unless Russia stays in near total isolation.
Aside from all that, the Euro countries could do both themselves and the US a huge favor by publicly asking the US to provide target amounts of energy (mainly LNG) they need in return for their commitment to long term contracts for such, and proposing plans for both themselves and the US on how to get there ASAP. This is win-win-win-Putin lose. The Euros could even work with Governors of several US States on the proposals, if the Feds balk, to ramp up pressure on the Feds.
Zelenskyy should demand Russia pay for rebuilding every piece of infrastructure that has so much as a scratch. I’m not sure what would be just compensation for the deaths. USD 5 million each?
Late TV news after the NCAA games is saying Mariupol is 90% destroyed? Seems unbelievable.