Posted on 03/06/2025 8:31:13 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russia will have to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine in any peace deal, a potential future leader of the country has demanded.
In a statement made in London, Gen Valeriy Zaluzhny, who was sacked as commander-in-chief by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just over a year ago, also warned that the cohesion of the Nato alliance was at stake with America attempting to “delegate” security to Europe.
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Gen Zaluzhny, who was appointed ambassador to Britain shortly after his dismissal as armed forces chief in February last year, set out his terms for a lasting peace agreement that includes Russia paying to rebuild heavily damaged parts of Ukraine.
“We should get very realistic security guarantees, and it can and should hope for the full recovery of Ukraine at the expense of the aggressor state that attacked Ukraine,” he said, speaking via a translator.
He also raised the possibility that Kyiv could re-examine its nuclear status – the country gave up its Soviet-era stockpile, then the third-largest in the world, in the 1994 Budapest memorandum.
“Ukraine doesn't have its own nuclear weapon, so it pays for its freedom with its blood,” he told the conference but then later avoided a question on the issue.
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You are losing the war Ukraine. That isn’t how it works.
I don’t think the guy understands how negotiations work when you don’t hold any cards except for the blood of your citizenry.
Ukies live in some fantasy world.
Good luck with that fantasy.
And that is why you sign economic deals with countries like the U.S. it is through economic partnership that you rebuild your country and secure it.
Putin to Zelenskyy: Сука
From all the reports we got from the DemonRATS’ “media” during this war, it would seem to me that the Ukies should be required to rebuild Russia.
Picture Russia and its own Marshall Plan.
1) They’re too poor.
2) They’re cheap and paranoid.
I guess 90% reduction in long-term population estimates isn’t enough for this guy.
They’ve already rebuilt Mariupol.
The main takeaway is that this is who the DC/London axis is going to use to replace Zelinsky.
The US didn’t, in 1783.
Neither did Vietnam in 1975.
Your “card” in such a case is the blood of the other guy’s citizenry.
Then the Ukraine must pay to rebuild in Russia for the damage the Ukraine caused.
Ah yes, the Colin Powell ‘Pottery Barn Rule’.
Yeah im sure russia will get right on that-
Probably worth noting that a Russia friendly government installed in Kiev would not face any huge difficulty in getting foreign aid for repairs.
And also worth noting the most heavily damaged areas are the new Russian Oblasts, which of course they will repair.
That’s what oil and gas does. They are everything.
“I guess 90% reduction in long-term population estimates isn’t enough for this guy.”
I read you as finding this a desirable outcome.
I want to explore that with you. Do you like to fantasize about mass murder?
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