Z is most certainly madder than a wet hen.
He’s looking for a way to change the game.
He might come up with something.
Russia will not and should not agree to it. Nor will it agree to a NATO presence in Ukraine.
First signs of ‘Rasputitsa’ (Mud Season) on the frontlines.
It will have an effect on combat operations
He wants ‘I ended the Russia/ Ukraine war’ on his resume. The details aren’t important.
no, Russia should leave.
That is the only final solution.
If the war in Ukraine ends - you will be out of business
Zelenskyy is prohibited by his own Constitution from agreeing to concession of lands to Russia. Does Trump understand that?
It MIGHT be possible to get a cease fire, but, as we see from Pooty tools here in this thread, elements in Russia do not want any such cease fire, and there is at present no freaking way to enforce one anyway. That last is particularly true since Russia won’t agree to a force in Ukraine that the Ukies could possibly agree to, to enforce a cease fire.
So, despite Trump’s efforts, the war will go on, with a good part of Russia’s effort directed once again at Ukrainian energy supplies, particularly their electrical grid, and Ukraine smacking Russian refineries.
Russia would on the face of it seem to have the advantage. However, Ukraine has nearly 4 years’ experience in absorbing hits on their grid — which attacks violate the Geneva Conventions, in case anyone cares, and more important, in that time has developed a very well dispersed and diffuse backup consisting of hundreds of thousands of small generators. These are fueled by an equally diffuse network supplying fuel to the generators from sources Pooty can’t hit: Bordering NATO countries. There is also some local energy sourcing from solar panels, biofuels, etc.
This energy sourcing is of course not EFFICIENT, but with the West easily footing most of the bill (also with help from Japan, etc.), efficiency is not a major concern.
This is highly problematic for Russia: Even using relatively cheap drones, it is not economically practical to take out hundreds of thousands of small generators and that diffuse supply network. Never mind that if Russia tries anyway, they’ll likely kill 10’s if not 100’s of thousands of Ukie civilians in the process. What a propaganda nightmare that would be.
Meantime, Ukraine continues its ramping up of successful attacks on Russia’s energy system, particularly its refineries. Russia is highly dependent on those refineries, while Ukraine gets by without any working refineries at all. Therein lies Ukraine’s advantage.
I don’t think Putin will accept anything but total victory.
This idiotic Russian-favoring position was obviously put into 47’s head by best bro pitin during their long and loving phone call. 47 just cannot get enough of pitin’s gourmet borscht; its what’s for dinner every night at the WH.
I almost never post links to war vids (check my history), but, this one is VERY telling. The Ukies hit a petro depot in Crimea last night, and (0:37)...
1) The thermal imagery allows the Ukies to hit the only tank with fuel(?) in it.
AND...
2) Only one tank has significant contents in it.