I don’t believe Biden’s crew favors a diplomatic resolution. They need this to be a bloody war in November.
Clearly a better man than Putin, by any measure.
Who’s going to pay for rebuilding?
Last check from America didn’t clear???
Zelensky is a lot like Jalal Talabani in Iraq, or Ashraf Gani in Afghanistan.
His main power is his connection to the USA, its money, its media, its weapons and NATO. He doesn’t fully control what we consider to be his own government, and he certainly doesn’t control all the armed players in Ukraine.
There are factions in Ukraine who will possibly assassinate him if he tried to make peace, and his patrons in the West also want Ukraine to keep fighting Russia.
I’m sure (z)Alinsky will negotiate in good faith
Just like the DNC, TalyBiden , HHS, Pelosi, ECT.
Maybe TalyBiden upped his cut
to
%90 Joe ,
%10 (z)Alinsky
I hope this bears fruit though.
BS, he just asked for money and weapons.
Should have done that when it was first offered. Needless lives lost
He says he wants the Ruskies to give up the Eastern territories, and go back to the borders before the invasion. Putin won’t agree to that.
Translation: Ukraine is losing badly and Zelensky realizes he must deal if Ukraine is to have any hope of retaining some access to the Black Sea.
3 observations from this, coming the DAY AFTER the confab with Beavis (Blinken) & Butthead (Austin):
1. Ukraine is not ‘winning’,
2. Zelensky only cares about staying in power,
3. Xiden’s handlers may soon have to find a new distraction (be worried).
About time. I think the Biden admin knows they can’t keep the attention span on that place much longer.
Bidens messed up people’s live so bad here with costs ruining every family budget. To keep paying off Ukraine is a losing policy and unpopular because giving them money never stops.
Already the Germans have dropped some of the sanctions and are back to Russian gas.
Some of those counties are tired of Biden admin bossing them around. Note Macron not taking Biden calls.
Your a day late and $7B dollars short Vlordimor.
How can this be? “Settle Ukraine-Russia conflict in a peaceful way”?
Didn’t SoD Austin just say that his chief objective was to weaken Russia militarily? (Like make Ukraine vs. Russia into another Afghanistan experience for Russia, so Russia is drained militarily?)
I’m confused.
If he cared about his citizens, he’d have tried this before war.
PS - I thought Ukraine was winning?
Namita Singh Sun, April 24, 2022,
https://www.yahoo.com/video/ukraine-news-live-zelensky-says-053647951.html
Ukraine claims to destroy Russian command post in Kherson
06:15 , Namita Singh
The Ukrainian military on Saturday claimed to have destroyed a Russian command post in Kherson, a southern city that fell to Russia early in the war.
They hit the command force on Friday, killing two generals and critically wounding another, said the Ukrainian military intelligence agency in a statement.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in an online interview that 50 senior Russian officers were in the command center when it was attacked.
Namita Singh Sun, April 24, 2022,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would wish to follow a diplomatic path to resolve the military standoff between Ukraine and Russia.
“I want to stop the war and put an end to it. There is a diplomatic path and a military one. Any healthy person always chooses a diplomatic path because they know that, even if it’s difficult, it could prevent the loss of thousands or tens of thousands” lives, Zelensky said at a press conference in Kyiv on Saturday.
“And any leader, whether he wants it personally or not, has no right to reject a diplomatic path subjectively,” he said.
“The most relevant issues [in talks with Russia] are security guarantees and neutrality, as well as the fate of Donbas and Crimea. I believe no other issues exist,” Zelensky said.
He warned that Ukraine might withdraw from the negotiating process, in particular, if “a pseudo-referendum on setting up a so-called KhPR [Kherson People’s Republic] and other pseudo-republics” is arranged.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said in commenting on this remark on Monday that Moscow is unaware of any preparations for a referendum in Kherson.
“I haven’t heard anything,” Rudenko said when asked by journalists on Monday to comment on media reports that Russian authorities are preparing a referendum in Kherson.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/ukraine-news-live-zelensky-says-053647951.html
Ukraine claims to destroy Russian command post in Kherson
06:15 , Namita Singh
The Ukrainian military on Saturday claimed to have destroyed a Russian command post in Kherson, a southern city that fell to Russia early in the war.
They hit the command force on Friday, killing two generals and critically wounding another, said the Ukrainian military intelligence agency in a statement.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in an online interview that 50 senior Russian officers were in the command center when it was attacked.
About time.
Biden and NATO is prepared to support the war with Russia to Ukraine’s last man.