Ukraine has already retaken 50 percent of occupied territory

The Hill ^ | 7/23/2023 | Sarah Fortinsky

[Alter Kaker]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Ukraine has already retaken about 50 percent of the territory that Russia initially seized, stressing that Kyiv’s counteroffensive is still in its “relatively early days.”

“In terms of what Russia sought to achieve, what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin sought to achieve, they’ve already failed. They’ve already lost. The objective was to erase Ukraine from the map, to eliminate its independence, its sovereignty, to subsume it into Russia. That failed a long time ago,” Blinken told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview on “GPS.”

[Timber Rattler]

And he would be 100% correct.

[C210N]

The Sun Tsu is strong on this one.

Speak of victory when you’ve been defeated.

[Sunsong]

Good news:

“Ukraine has already retaken about 50 percent of the territory that Russia initially seized”

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The administration's goal now is just for Ukraine to hang on until November 2024.

[NorseViking]

retaken about 50 percent of the territory that Russia initially seized, stressing that Kyiv’s counteroffensive is still in its “relatively early days.” It is time for bargaining phase but Blinken is still in denial.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Still pretending this is a Ukraine/Russia war and not a USA/Russia proxy war I see.

[sauropod]

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[zeestephen]

How long before Zelensky asks the USA for tactical nukes?

[BipolarBob]

Hey!! You’re not supposed to notice.

[McGruff]

[JoSixChip]

This buy has no connection to reality. This a flat out lie, he then goes on to completely misstates Russian goals here. We’re screwed.

[rktman]

#CBM-——Cluster Bombs Matter. Just sayin’.... 😬

Do I need the /s?

[Gen.Blather]

“The administration’s goal now is just for Ukraine to hang on until November 2024.”

I listened to an interesting view from an American commentator. He said, the West wants Ukraine to hold Russia at bay but if Ukraine wins outright, they will have the best equipped and largest trained fighting force in Europe and nobody in Europe or the US wants to see where that might lead us.

[AAABEST]

The alternate reality talking points to put lipstick on an utter disaster and failure.

Like “Bidenomics is working.”

[PGR88]

Wars among great powers have an incredible way of turning plans of the combatants 180 Degrees in reverse and upside down.

WWI knocked down all the politicians and monarchs who entered the war. Some just lost power, some had their countries destroyed, some even lost their lives.

I am expecting the same here.

[JonPreston]

So be it!!

[enumerated]

I don’t believe anything this administration says.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is good news then.

We can stop giving Ukraine military aid and billions of our tax dollars, right?

Clearly, they're winning. Plus, Pooty-Poot has cancer.

Right?

[null and void]

“Aie, yar! Every day, every minute there is something. Last night, according to the news-channels, they destroyed the main Spakum space-fleet for the tenth time. Today they are pursuing the remnants of what is said to have been destroyed. For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralised enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.”