Posted on 06/01/2022 5:40:41 AM PDT by JonPreston
The relevant statement was made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with the American TV channel Newsmax, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“The situation is very difficult. We’re losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 people as wounded in action. So we are holding our defensive perimeters. The most difficult situation is in the east of Ukraine and southern Donetsk and Luhansk,” Zelensky told.
In his words, Putin cannot win, and the world must stop defending him amid the latest atrocities committed by Russian troops.
“Now, he [Putin – Ed.] is almost isolated. The world always keeps giving him a chance, because the sanctions are not imposed completely. There are gaps in some of the leaders saying the Russian leader should be offered with a way out,” the President of Ukraine noted.
According to Zelensky, the weakness of Putin and Russia is not only in failing to occupy a smaller neighboring nation but also in attempts to take him out as leader.
“Attempting to kill the leader of this or that country is a weakness, I would say. If you can’t talk, then it’s a weakness. The weakness is to start the war, and they’ve already demonstrated there is weakness. If you can’t occupy that country, that’s a weakness. And simultaneously, if you would like something to happen to the family of the other country’s leader then that’s a political inability to do anything,” Zelensky added.
A reminder that, on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting a war. Russian troops are shelling and destroying the key infrastructure facilities, launching air and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and villages, torturing and murdering civilians.
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That's why he kept us out of war x 4 years. Stop making up your own talking points, and definitely stop supporting this war.
I think you are supporting the war.
You support Russia militarily taking over Ukraine.
You should not.
The point with Trump is that military actions did work to deter. There is nothing wrong with the US striking Russia to punish its aggression in Ukraine.
It is also not sane to pretend that because Biden is President that we should support Iran, North Korea, China, Russia . . . and everyone else because Jon Preston will say you are pro-Biden if you support a US military response to these aggressors.
Biden is much worse than any Republican alternative. That is clear but I am not fooled by your dialectic games.
That's exactly what I think. This response is without a national interest while at the same time Biden Republicans choose to ignore our own border. From your handle you might be in Texas. How on earth you can celebrate $40bn going to Zelenskyyy while we remain unprotected is beyond me.
Oh, people on this forum scolded me for saying “They’re both criminals, and the Chinese, too, and Iran.” This one guy was like, “Oh, so you like Putin?” and I said, “I just said he’s a crook,” and then he scolded some more saying I must like Ru$$ia, etc., etc. Like everybody has to pick a side. *snort*
I am in Texas and I do think our border should be secured.
But as I keep saying, I do not insist that the United States make bad choices simply so Biden can be discredited. His actions in Ukraine and the US are mistaken.
But a mistake on failed US border security does not justify allowing Russia to take over another nation. It is not reasonable to think that one mistake justifies another mistake. The US should make strong efforts to defend Ukraine. Russia is not an ally of the US.
What I hear you saying is yes, America has a failed border policy, but that shouldn't stop us from securing Ukraine's border. Can you imagine how our border security would change overnight with an injection of $50bn, the amount of money we gave to Zelenskyyy? That money was created from thin air with the debt given to our kids and g'kids. What a disgrace.
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