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Zelenskyy yanks outspoken security council boss, appoints spy chief in his stead
POLITICO ^ | March 26, 2024 | Veronika Melkozerova

Posted on 03/26/2024 8:37:48 PM PDT by McGruff

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced one of his longest-serving officials, Oleksiy Danilov, who had earlier criticized a Chinese peace plan.

Danilov’s firing came after he expressively criticized Chinese Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui, as well as a Chinese peace initiative, on air during a Ukrainian national telethon.

“As for Li Hui, I want to remind everyone: No one will decide our fate but us,” Danilov said on March 19. “I don’t understand who can trade our territories, our lands like that. Because some Hui, I’m sorry, or whatever his last name is, or someone else think they should decide it.”

After a recent visit to Europe Li said that while Kyiv and Moscow remained far apart, “in the end they all agree that the war must be resolved through negotiations rather than guns,”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: china; killkillkillforpeace; lihui; oleksiydanilov; politico; pollutico; ukraine; veronikamelkozerova; zelensky

1 posted on 03/26/2024 8:37:48 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

This could be entertaining.


2 posted on 03/26/2024 8:42:38 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated.)
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To: Allegra

Yeah, I’m sure the Chinese aren’t making a list, and checking it twice.


3 posted on 03/26/2024 8:46:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Odessa doink?)
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To: McGruff

Is this the Uke Intelligence muckity muck who was taking credit for all of the previous terrorist bombings and political murders?


4 posted on 03/26/2024 9:01:50 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: kiryandil

This article is confusing. Hui mentions a peace agreement and Danilov gets pissed off and criticizes that and then Zelensky fires Danilov for disagreeing with Hui?

Did I miss something?


5 posted on 03/26/2024 9:04:01 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated.)
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To: Allegra
Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary, Oleksiy Danilov, kicked off a diplomatic storm after insulting a senior Chinese diplomat. Speaking during a live interview, Danilov played on the similarity between the Chinese diplomat’s name and a Ukrainian swearword.
6 posted on 03/26/2024 9:17:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Odessa doink?)
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To: McGruff

Jeez, even Zelensky is kowtowing to the Chinese. What are Zelensky and his crew of corrupt underlings getting from the ChiComs.


7 posted on 03/26/2024 9:25:05 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: kiryandil

Good grief. That doesn’t sound like a fireable offense. Zelvis must be laundering Chinese money too.


8 posted on 03/26/2024 10:10:54 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated.)
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To: McGruff

I think Zelenskyy is getting paranoid. He’s taking actions to try to extinguish any hint of something that might diminish his authority and develop into a coup.


9 posted on 03/26/2024 11:08:42 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: House Atreides; marcusmaximus; Paul R.; Bruce Campbells Chin; PIF; familyop; MercyFlush; tet68; ...
During the Vietnam War, just after devastating famines induced by Mao's utopian experiments in China's rural areas, China became a major player in the Vietnam War by positioning almost 200K troops in North Vietnam and supplying large amounts of equipment and ammo to North Vietnam. The Ukrainians are perhaps hoping to avoid a similar Chinese effort in favor of Russia's war in Ukraine.

In response to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, China launched the Resist America, Aid Vietnam campaign.[8]: 29  The campaign themes denounced U.S. imperialism and promoted Vietnamese resistance.[8]: 29  Local communist party cadre organized mass meetings and street demonstrations, and millions of people across the country marched in support of the campaign between February 9 and February 11, 1965.[8]: 29  The communist party expanded the campaign into cultural media such as film and photography exhibitions, singing contests, and street performances.[8]: 29 

In April 1965, the U.S. Operation Rolling Thunder prompted the communist party to accelerate war preparations in major cities, particularly air defense and citizen militia drills.[8]: 30  The party began emphasizing that, in addition the preparing for the risk of U.S. bombing of China, the Chinese people should be prepared to handle the worst-case scenario scenario of having to fight on Chinese soil.[8]: 30 

To counter U.S. overwhelming airstrikes, Ho requested Chinese Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) units in a meeting with Mao in May 1965. In response, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces began flowing into North Vietnam in July 1965 to help defend Hanoi and its major transportation systems.[7]: 217  The total number of Chinese troops in North Vietnam between June 1965 and March 1968 amounted to over 320,000.[2]: 135  “The peak year was 1967 when 170,000 Chinese soldiers were present.”[2]: 135  In the same year the PLA and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) & Viet Cong (VC) made an agreement under which the PLA provided the PAVN/VC with 5,670 sets of uniforms, 5,670 pairs of shoes, 567 tons of rice, 20.7 tons of salt, 55.2 tons of meat, 20.7 tons of fish, 20.7 tons of sesame and peanuts, 20.7 tons of beans, 20.7 tons of lard, 6.9 tons of soy sauce, 20,7 tons of white sugar, 8,000 toothbrushes, 11,100 tubes of toothpaste, 35,300 bars of soap, and 109,000 cases of cigarettes.[2]: 135  In total, the agreement included 687 different items, covering such goods as table tennis balls, volleyballs, harmonicas, playing cards, pins, fountain pen ink, sewing needle, and vegetable seeds.[9]

Such allowed Hanoi to use its own manpower for participating in battles in the South and maintaining the transport and communication lines between the North and the South and played a role in deterring further American expansion of the war into the North.[3]: 378–9 

The end of China’s assistanceedit

Military aid given to North Vietnam by China[3]: 379 
YearGunsArtillery piecesBulletsArtillery shellsRadio transmittersTelephonesTanksPlanesAutomobiles
196480,5001,20525,240,000335,0004262,941161825
1965220,7674,439114,010,0001,800,0002,7799,502?2114
1966141,5313,362178,120,0001,066,0001,5682,235??96
1967146,6003,984147,000,0001,363,0002,4642,2892670435
1968219,8997,087247,920,0002,082,0001,8543,31318?454
1969139,9003,906119,117,0001,357,0002,2103,453??162
1970101,8002,21229,010,000397,0009501,600???
1971143,1007,89857,190,0001,899,0002,4644,4248044,011
1972189,0009,23840,000,0002,210,0004,3705,905220148,758
1973233,5009,91240,000,0002,210,0004,3356,447120361,210
1974164,5006,40630,000,0001,390,0005,1484,66380?506
1975141,8004,88020,600,000965,0002,2402,150?20?
Total1,922,89764,5291,048,207,00017,074,00030,80848,92256016415,771

China's supply of weapons and other military equipment to Vietnam sharply increased in 1965 compared with 1964. The amount of China's military supply fluctuated between 1965 and 1968, although the total value of material supplies remained at roughly the same level. But then in 1969–70, a sharp drop occurred, at the same time that all China's troops were pulled back. Not until 1972 would there be another significant increase in China's military delivery to Vietnam.[3]: 378  Another figure shows that “When the last Chinese troops withdrew from Vietnam in August 1973, 1,100 soldiers had lost their lives and 4,200 had been wounded.”[2]: 135

 


10 posted on 03/26/2024 11:33:36 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Allegra

They aren’t mentioning that in his flippant response, he insulted the Chinese representative by comparing his last name with the Russian (Ukrainian too I assume) word “хуй”, which is the swear word for the male reproductive organ.


11 posted on 03/27/2024 3:27:03 AM PDT by billakay
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To: everyone

“in the end they all agree that the war must be resolved through negotiations rather than guns,”

Some day Ukraine will realize that.


12 posted on 03/27/2024 4:32:14 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Zhang Fei
Thanks Zhang Fei.

13 posted on 03/27/2024 7:34:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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