Posted on 07/23/2023 9:04:34 AM PDT by 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.”
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Ya think?
“Forward!” he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
The general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side”
“For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralised enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.”
Stealing that
The exact opposite of what he is saying is very likely closer to the truth.
“Ukraine has already retaken 50 percent of occupied territory”
...except that 49% of the Occupied Territory was recovered BEFORE the past past 6 weeks...when Ukraine started using Western hardware.
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell...
The Babylon Hill Bee strikes again.
The Russians are retreating towards Kiev, whilst the Ukrainians are advancing towards Kiev ;)
Ukraine is not winning this war! Period
“I don’t believe anything this administration says.”
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1000% THIS!!!
That's the definition of stupidity. Especially when past claims have not panned out as being the truth, and had to actually be walked back.
Biden said Ukraine has already won this conflict.
I guess time will reveal the truth. Until then, color me skeptical, because I see no evidence whatsoever to support the claim.
In the meantime, it seems as though we've heard this claim before.
But I'm seeing nothing that supports this claim at all.
Blinken is not known for his intelligence nor his truthfulness.
They re-took the McDonald’s on the corner of Marx and Lenin Avenue.
So, with a straight face, he argues that because Russia wanted 100% of Ukraine the fact that Russia only occupied 50% of Ukraine means Ukraine has won back 50% and prevented Russia from its goal of 100%. Well. Ok then. I guess if people will belive Biden is the most popular President among black Americans of all time they’ll believe anything.
That’s not great news. What country will Russia steal next?
“The objective was to erase Ukraine from the map, to eliminate its independence, its sovereignty, to subsume it into Russia.”
That was never the stated objective of Russia.
Now tell me how great the Biden economy is like a good, little neocon lickspittle.
Now tell me how great the Biden economy is like a good, little neocon lickspittle.
The Putin Propagandists can now eat their words.
Putin laid it all out right here:
Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“
Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are ‘one people’
Address by the President of the Russian Federation. February 21, 2022
Address by the President of the Russian Federation, February 24, 2022
It's the same exact argument that Hitler used to justify his annexations of the Sudetenland and Austria--"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer! "
[Ukraine is not winning this war! Period]
And yet the line of contact continues to creep eastward...
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