Posted on 01/20/2024 8:51:35 AM PST by Mariner
He should also give them a grim assessment of Ukraine WITH more aid.
Zelensky will never agree to a cease fire and peace talks until he is cut off. And he must know and understand he has to give up the pro-Russian populated eastern oblasts - those east of the Dnieper River.
Hey...how about some “Aid” to OUR BORDER!
I’ve come to the conclusion Joe biden does not care about anyone except himself.
If he is still wanting to send $$$$ to Ukraine, it’s not out of a good intention.. Our border is still open and the damage by having 8 million who knows what walk.Swim right in.
If eukrane is still his request.. There has to be another reason... Money laundering.. Child trafficking.. Do ya reckon?
It seems correct on bot counts. From the Nuland-Pyatt debacle ("f**k Europe") and going forward, one finds disclosures coming in "dribs and drabs."
Here, as one example and courtesy of a somewhat weird machine translation, is an excerpt from the Swedish press, not covered here in the states:
SVT's Ukraine expert cow ducks [ machine translation through the browser ] – no longer believes in war profitsOne finds in other European press views in both directions, 'stirring the pot for war', and also suggesting 'stirring the pot for war' is wildly foolish.
Published 12/2023Lieutenant Colonel Joakim Paasikivi has long been the media and, not least, the most frequently employed by the State Television expert to convey assessments of how the war between Russia and Ukraine is going. In his, as many, he has unrealistic belief that Ukraine should prevail compared to "Baghdad Bob”. Now Paasikivi releases the optimistic facade and changes foot.
For periods, the Swedish TV viewers have seen Paasikivi almost every night in SVT Current and / or Report confidently promise that Ukraine will give the Russian bear on the coat. A handful of military successes for the Ukrainian defense at the beginning of the war had to serve as a basis even for the continued assessments, even when things started to get worse.
Today, the fact is that the front lines have been standing still for a long time and the heated ” summer offensive ” failed while the war continued to cost human life and money and create great havoc. Many assessor and the ordinary the man and the woman on the street who do not engage in wishful thinking or have their own political interests in the conflict now lean on Russia to emerge victorious from the war.
What could change this would be if NATO instead of waging proxy war against Russia through Ukraine today would declare regular war on Putin. However, it would have enormous consequences that far exceed those of a Russian profit in Ukraine and a return in the country to a more Russia-friendly attitude would mean security policy.
Former optimist now more pessimistic
And now also the greatest Ukraine optimist of all, Joakim Paasikivi, joins, to the increasingly dominant assessment that around half a million Russian and Ukrainian soldiers and at least 10,000 civilian Ukrainians from that perspective may have died in vain while large parts of Ukraine are located in ruins.
– It looks darker now. I thought the [Ukrainian military forces] would be better, he admits in an interview with SvD.
SVT:s Ukraina-expert kovänder - tror inte längre på krigsvinst
Ultimately, at the end of the Ukraine-Russia war, no matter how it turns out, there will have to be some kind of reconciliation, even if only to some kind of "DMZ" model.
Therefore, my opinion is Russia and Europe are fighting over issues of EV raw materials and illegal bioweapon labs. Not a concern of the US, not worth a thin dime. Spending hundreds of billions of dollars we do not have in yet another pointless proxy war is speeding up the end of the US. It all comes down to corruption.
100’s of millions
Couldn’t save Ellen
Diversity kaput
Gog usa
Magog nato
Rev 13
If Ukraine dies then it's the fault of the geniuses that insisted on pushing NATO up to the Russian border in defiance of longstanding agreements and then refusing to even talk about the inflammatory situation with Russia even once. They dared Putin to make a move an he did, then they doubled down on the no negotiation strategy.
And Ukraine is bleeding out because of it.
It has been stark from day one. Now it is getting hideous.
Blackmail. When one has the "receipts" on corruption -- and especially when those receipts may be held in secure "locations" not easily accessible to the "marks," those marks will be amenable to paying with "other people's money."
I don't not mean the Bidens alone. I suspect that many more have been involved in the money laundering games. We should not forget Burisma, and the involvement not only of the Bidens, but also the Pelosis, Kerrys and some bunch of Romney and related characters. And my suspicion is that there is on this list also a certain number of prominent European "leaders" whose involvement would prove most embarrassing.
I was deemed a propagandist for suggesting exactly that.
This is shocking. I fully expected the people pushing for more aid for Ukraine to go into Congress and tell them
“don’t sweat it, not urgent. Aid, no aid, things will be just fine.”
Aides gave the briefing? More like lobbyists.
Ukraine will get what Nazi Ukraine deserves.
That’s too bad.
The empire is corrupt at its center, no longer understands power because its inner councils are dominated by people who confuse the two, is chased out of desolate corners of the planet by goatherds with rifles, abandoning billions in assets, and will finally die once Ukraine falls.
I don’t see a problem with this.
FYI, here is what I reported on a previous post:
Here is what the web says when I queried how much money is missing:
According to the web search results, the United States has sent over $76 billion in funding and equipment to Ukraine through military, economic, and humanitarian aid since Russia’s invasion in 2022. The U.S. is the largest donor of aid to Ukraine, followed by the European Union, which has pledged about $50 billion. However, some of the aid packages have faced political delays and controversies in both the U.S. and the EU.
The $76 billion that the U.S. has sent to Ukraine is not missing, but it was overestimated due to accounting errors by the Pentagon. The Pentagon discovered that it had used the wrong method to calculate the value of the equipment it had sent to Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, resulting in an overvaluation of $6.2 billion. The Pentagon has corrected the errors and issued new guidance on how to properly value the equipment. The $6.2 billion will be added back to the future aid packages for Ukraine.
I am reminded by the old saying “Figures never lie, but liars figure.” Btw, I don’t believe in ‘finding’ 6 billion in equipment with ‘better accounting’. The prisons are filled with embezzlers who used ‘better accounting’ to enrich themselves. And Trump has the audacity to suggest that maybe even some Congress critters are enriching themselves. That is a new concept that has been used by the Military Industrial Complex since World War II.
Cease fire! Cease fire! Cease fire!
Oops. Wrong war.
EC
It won't, but the kickbacks will help the Biden Crime Family - Hunter needs cash for blow, whores and his attorneys, and Traitor Joe has four mansions to maintain.
Maybe they can get Sally Struthers to do a “feed the war machine” infomercial.
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