Posted on 09/12/2023 4:01:37 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
If you think, like Elon Musk, that instead of fighting, Ukraine and Russia “should agree to a truce,” the recent interview with General Andrey Mordvichev, one of Russia’s top commanders in Ukraine, should give you pause.
Asked about the war’s expected duration, he said the quiet part out loud: There is still “plenty of time.”
According to him, “If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer.”
In other words, the Kremlin is in the conflict for the long haul.
Not only it is committed, as Russian President Vladimir Putin himself stated on numerous occasions, to the destruction of Ukraine’s statehood, but its ambitions extend beyond Ukraine, encompassing Moldova and Georgia as well as our NATO allies in the Baltic states and Poland.
None of this is news to Eastern Europeans.
As the late former president of Poland Lech Kaczynski noted in 2008, after Russia attacked Georgia, “Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, the Baltic States the day after tomorrow, and then perhaps the time will come for my country, Poland.”
America’s self-styled realists who believe a compromise can be reached with Putin — perhaps peace in exchange for some territory and promise of Ukraine’s neutrality — have a hopelessly unrealistic, naïve understanding of the Kremlin’s thinking.
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Nice try, kid.
I see you’re signing off. BTW: When did you lose your hair?
let’s test this. I’ll check in in an hour or so and see if you respond.
Don’t waste your time. Unlike you, I actually have a life, and FR is just an entertainment for me, one among many.
Hey! Let's all play the "Pronoun Game!"
No, let's not! To whom, specifically, are you referring?
Come on, don't be coy! Spit it out!
Regards,
Ukraine does not have to "defeat" Russia (e.g., march to Moscow, shell the Kremlin, divide the whole country up piece-meal): The Russians, themselves, are quite capable of doing that all by themselves, as they amply demonstrated approx. 30 years ago, when the Soviet Union imploded.
Ukraine has only to survive.
Regards,
“Come on, don’t be coy! Spit it out!
Regards,”
You, for starters.
Huh?!
When have I ever "pimped monetized YouTube channels" or "posted Russian propaganda?!"
rxh4n1, post #58: "I wish JimRob would boot these foreign shills from both sides out of here. To start with, the one that pimps monetized YouTube channels, then the one that posts the Russian propaganda".
You are, quite frankly, delusional.
Regards,
“Ukraine does not have to “defeat” Russia (e.g., march to Moscow, shell the Kremlin, divide the whole country up piece-meal):”
Obviously, I was referring to a defeat of the Russian invasion. I don’t think anyone assumes Ukraine has the ability to launch their own invasion of Russia, as did Napoleon and Hitler.
I have said much the same thing: Ukraine wins by not losing.
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