He finally accepts the impossibility of restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders.
ransomnote: I think Z accepts the impossibility for now, under the current circumstances and administration. This is NATO's proxy war to remove Putin and install their puppet in order to further their plans for world dominion, and NATO hasn't given up its aspirations.
I believe they will remain primed to resume that war in case they can somehow remove Trump or take the 2028 election. Then it's game on!
About that, while Trump might escalate US involvement for the purpose of coercing Putin into freezing the conflict without obtaining any of his stated goals therein, he doesn’t have any illusions about Ukraine restoring its pre-2014 borders.
ransomnote: Putin has obtained some of his stated goals. He had petitioned the UN to investigate the biowarfare labs in Ukraine. He submitted a report documenting their locations and claims that those labs tested biowarfare agents on unwitting members of the public and Russian soldiers. The day before the war began, Zelensky ordered the destruction of all documents at the Biden family biolab. In the opening hours of the war, Putin struck and destroyed those labs with missiles.
Putin said he pursued the 'de-Nazification' of Ukraine; he's had partial success there. Prior to the war he was trying to negotiate to stop Western Ukraine from shelling Eastern Ukraine in their attempt to kill Ukrainians of Russian descent. Putin has personally secured those areas now.
There are a few other areas re Crimea that may have improved.
Zelensky is aware of this and doesn’t want to risk Trump’s wrath by demanding the impossible.
I believe Trump's wrath surfaces when he talks about the needless deaths in part because Zelensky 'didn't have any cards' and still held out of the impossible. It wasn't merely an impass, it was soldiers dying on both sides needlessly while Z folded his arms over his chest and demanded to be treated like a victor, able to dictate terms. But Z is NATO's boy, so Trump is likely equally angry with the NATO intransigence, if not more so. For example....
Zelenskyy, With EU Support, Continues Looking for Any Excuse to Derail or Avoid Peace Talks – Rejects Mineral Deal, Demands EU Ascension and Security Guarantees The problem is that Russia never intended to occupy all of Ukraine. This is proven by it never even trying to take Odessa, not to mention making no moves whatsoever on Western Ukraine, with Kiev’s environs being the furthest west that Russia ever went.
That's a hot-button issue for Ukrainian trolls. 'The narrative' that Putin would take over the world unless eliminated must be preserved in order to 'force' the US and other nations to fund the war, and more importantly, to justify a first strike or nuclear conflict to help NATO's plans for world dominion .
Ukraine Frantically Tries to Walk Back Zelensky Call for ‘Preemptive Strikes’ on Russia
The presidential press office of Ukraine accused global media outlets of “nuclear hysteria” on Thursday for sharing remarks made by President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he asked the world for “preemptive strikes” on Russia to avoid nuclear war.To be sure, some of its supporters have fantasized that Russia’s goal is to occupy all of Ukraine up to the Polish border, but this has always been wishful thinking and never a reflection of Russia’s stated goals or even its implied ones as proven by the course of military operations.
Yes. And that's why NATO wants the US to fight Russia for them (hands clean) so they keep trying to get the US in via article 5 (e.g., Zelensky lying about the missiles which landed in Poland, claiming Russia fired them when he knew those missiles were Ukrainian). Alexander Mercouris has provided daily analysis of the war and in some of the notes I've posted, he remarked that NATO's strategy was an endless series of tactics to get the US directly involved in fighting.
Certainly on FR, Ukraine's apologists urge the US to sacrifice herself to 'save the world' from Putin.
Also, another analyst pointed out that Putin wants a buffer zone to keep NATO off his borders, and in the current arrangement, he has it. If he took all of Ukraine, he would once again have NATO on his borders. Really, Putin has explained all this and the fact that he wants peaceful trading partners (I think he NEEDS peaceful trading partners) on his borders and harmony among slavic 'brothers'.
He's motivated not only by concerns about his legacy, but also by fear of an ultra-nationalist (fascist) revolt from segments of civil society and the armed forces in the event that he accepts indefinite Russian control over Ukrainian-claimed territories as part of a peace deal.
When some in the West objected to sending billions of dollars to Ukraine given the Azov Nazi prominence, Zelensky incorporated the Azovs into the National Guard. So now with the name change to 'National Guard', Zelensky considers the problem solved. SIgnficant portions of Ukraine revere Banderas and honor his collaboration with the Nazis.
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. Yes, the Azovs wouldn't mind getting rid of Zelensky the old (Nazi) fashioned way.
The irony is that Ukraine would have retained the parts of Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions presently under Russian control had Zelensky accepted the terms of spring 2022’s draft peace treaty that the UK and Poland conspired to sabotage.
Oh but with Biden in office and the potential overthrow of Russia, Globalists would have control of two nuclear arsenals and could finally rule the world. You know, "You will have nothing and like it" and "Bugs. It's what's for dinner."
The precedent established by the epic failure of summer 2023’s counteroffensive, which was prepared for over a year and followed the influx of tens of billions of dollars of military equipment into Ukraine that the West no longer has to spare...
Biden would have given Ukraine our finest military hardware if he could, but he never did. Z would brag that HIMARS Biden provided would permit strikes deep into Russia, but then I learned the US bought Soviet era launchers which weren't capable of max strike ranges. The US gave very old retrofitted hardware and never gave Z F-16s. The Patriot batteries and missiles were lilkely new, but we really emptied out old equipment and never gave them 'the good stuff.' I think the NATO expected 'the good stuff' and were themselves so under prepared for their own self-defense that they gave old junk too. I believe NATO expected state of the art US military hardware, including nukes, and US boots on the ground, and Biden's handlers wanted to provide those things, but couldn't.
.....and Zelensky has finally accepted this.
For now. They may be waiting for future assasination attempts on Trump to remove the impediment they face, and they may be planning to wait as long as 2028 elections.
