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‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight
Time ^ | October 30, 2023 | Simon Shuster

Posted on 10/30/2023 12:02:03 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

It is only getting harder. Twenty months into the war, about a fifth of Ukraine’s territory remains under Russian occupation. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed, and Zelensky can feel during his travels that global interest in the war has slackened. So has the level of international support. “The scariest thing is that part of the world got used to the war in Ukraine,” he says. “Exhaustion with the war rolls along like a wave. You see it in the United States, in Europe. And we see that as soon as they start to get a little tired, it becomes like a show to them: ‘I can’t watch this rerun for the 10th time.’”

Public support for aid to Ukraine has been in decline for months in the U.S., and Zelensky’s visit did nothing to revive it. Some 41% of Americans want Congress to provide more weapons to Kyiv, down from 65% in June, when Ukraine began a major counteroffensive, according to a Reuters survey taken shortly after Zelensky’s departure. That offensive has proceeded at an excruciating pace and with enormous losses, making it ever more difficult for Zelensky to convince partners that victory is around the corner. With the outbreak of war in Israel, even keeping the world’s attention on Ukraine has become a major challenge.

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Oh Dear...
1 posted on 10/30/2023 12:02:03 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

F ukraine


2 posted on 10/30/2023 12:05:14 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Navy Patriot

Zelensky has already won. His money laundering operation is a smashing success. Eff Ukraine. Eff Zeepers. There are still no American interests in Ukraine.


3 posted on 10/30/2023 12:06:34 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

What a bunch of crap!


4 posted on 10/30/2023 12:10:25 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Gay adoption

Marriage

Aristocracy - gods

Atheo - marxist - acracy

No thank you

God save Russia - Israel - usa


5 posted on 10/30/2023 12:12:56 PM PDT by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: ConservativeInPA
His money laundering operation is a smashing success. Eff Ukraine. Eff Zeepers. There are still no American interests in Ukraine.

I wholeheartedly agree.

6 posted on 10/30/2023 12:14:51 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Navy Patriot

The only victory this guy has is grifting from US taxpayers. He hasn’t won crap in Ukraine and all his countrymen got was a myriad amount of funerals for it.

Screw Ukraine and Screw Russia.

We have had enough.


7 posted on 10/30/2023 12:16:51 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Navy Patriot

If the grifter could account for exactly where all of the aid went, he’d be in better shape. But he can’t. Doesn’t even attempt to. And when anyone asks... they get a big FU.

That’s because he and the rest of the uke robbers helped themselves generously to it.


8 posted on 10/30/2023 12:29:03 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Navy Patriot

BWHAHAHAHA


9 posted on 10/30/2023 12:34:39 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Allegra

what about the organ harestig and the c hild rafic?


10 posted on 10/30/2023 12:37:02 PM PDT by Therapsid (eagan the lack of food is expected to kill around 1 billion next year)
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To: Navy Patriot

It’s time for him to go.


11 posted on 10/30/2023 12:38:38 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Navy Patriot

Land of a thousand prances...


12 posted on 10/30/2023 12:47:51 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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Re: "Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do."

Tragically, that is completely true.

100,000 Ukrainians dead.

100,000 more maimed or disabled for life.

$1 trillion of war damage.

Putin wanted political control of the three majority Russian territories in the East - for a secure land passage to Crimea.

The human and economic cost has been horrifying.

13 posted on 10/30/2023 1:16:59 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Navy Patriot

There are millions of reasons why Zelensky fights to the last Ukrainian. They’re all in a bank account in Switzerland.


14 posted on 10/30/2023 1:43:43 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Navy Patriot

Schrödinger’s Russia: Simultaneously incompetent losers while global danger until the propaganda piece writer determines what benefits their need more at the moment.


15 posted on 10/30/2023 1:44:00 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Navy Patriot

16 posted on 10/30/2023 2:08:21 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Navy Patriot; lightman

Phooey to Zelenskyy, and to those who use our tax money to support him!

God bless and restore the true Church of Ukraine, under Metropolitan Onuphry!

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1717662135172595719


17 posted on 10/30/2023 2:16:51 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Navy Patriot
about a fifth of Ukraine’s territory remains under Russian occupation

I can fix this:

The new Russian Federation oblasts of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Luhansk are partially occupied by the Ukrainian aggressors, spiritual heirs of Stepan Bandera and the Waffen-SS Galician Division.

18 posted on 10/30/2023 2:25:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: JonPreston

Winning!


19 posted on 10/30/2023 2:26:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Navy Patriot

That’s because they are realists.

They are not living in a self-deceptive la-la land.


20 posted on 10/30/2023 2:39:05 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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