Posted on 09/24/2023 3:06:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into a fourth month, with only modest gains to show so far, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he rejected suggestions it was time to negotiate peace with the Kremlin.
“When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
He said when Putin understood that a big part of society supported Prigozhin, “he killed him. But before he killed, he gave him promises, the territory of Belorussia (Belarus), gave him new locations, the Africa issues and businesses, a lot of different things.”
The Wagner leader’s dramatic death, which followed a short-lived rebellion that threatened the authority of the Russian president, was a warning to be heeded, Zelensky suggested.
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Not if they learn from the Israelis. They would call up all the Reserves. Move them to the borders. Wait until the Russians withdraw from Belarus. Then the soldiers can return to reserve duty.
I think the countries and scale involved make for a different situation than Israel lives with and their dealing with Arab attacks.
Discusting Kapo.
No peace! More money for Zelensky and his off shore accounts!
Because then there was hope to settle the matter peacefully until the US/UK put the kibosh to it.
Accepting any Zelensky peace plan without negotiations was always going to be a no go. That deal had to be all HIS terms and only a fool would think that was going anywhere.
What reserves?
This whole thing is a orchestrated cluster fuck.
stop giving him money and he will make a deal
“Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death”
Prigozhin was likely killed because he WOULD NOT work with Putin, so I’m not sure that Zelensky is taking the right lesson here.
Putin took Crimea in 2014. That's enough warning for me. Ukraine did a lot to prepare themselves. They got a lot of weapons from the West. But they should have created something like the IDF. All the men should be in the Reserves. Have them mobilized when the Americans are showing you the satellite images of Russian troops staging in Belarus.
The Russians almost took Kyiv. Fortunately, they were too incompetent and corrupt. But if they had their $#it together, Kyiv would have been conquered in the first three days of the war.
Ukraine needs to get rid of Putin if they want peace.
The grifting little weasel is over here begging for more money.
Since when did this little toad become a ward of the US taxpayer.
So zelensky isn’t willing to die for peace like he expects his soldiers to do?
Compromising with bad policy is like adding some sewage to your drinking water.
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