Posted on 09/15/2024 4:11:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
KYIV — The terrible cost of Russia’s continuing assault on Ukraine is viscerally clear at a military rehabilitation center on the outskirts of this city. Soldiers there describe how their bodies were shattered on the front lines. And they’re the lucky ones who survived.
Alexei was trying to hold his position at Pokrovsk, the scene of some of this year’s heaviest fighting, when a drone dropped a grenade near him. His left leg and right hand were nearly severed, attached by thin threads of tissue but now mended. Nikolai lost his left leg in Kharkiv, another Russian target. He waited 18 hours to be evacuated because of drone attacks. Dima lost both legs when his vehicle was hit by a drone in Pokrovsk. The four soldiers traveling with him were killed.
I met these wounded soldiers at a recovery center funded by a Ukrainian businessman named Victor Pinchuk, one of 15 similar facilities he has established around the country. Like soldiers everywhere, they’re kids, with sleeves of tattoos and T-shirts promoting heavy metal bands. But they got old in a hurry. Talking with a half-dozen of them Friday, I heard the same grim account of what’s at stake in this war. As Alexei put it: “We don’t have a choice. If we stop fighting, we’ll stop existing.”
Listening to their stories, you realize that Ukraine is bleeding out. Its will to fight is as strong as ever, but its army is exhausted by a ceaseless drone war that’s unlike anything in the history of combat. The Biden administration’s rubric of support — “as long as it takes” — simply doesn’t match the reality of this conflict. Ukraine doesn’t have enough soldiers to fight an indefinite war of attrition. It needs to escalate to be strong enough to reach a decent...
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Putin’s down, Zelensky’s up!
Zelensky’s down, Putin’s up!
Send more money!
What bs.
Yes, however GloboHomoPedoNazi Ukraine CAN take America down with her, if the Zeepers can get away with the lies just a little while longer.
I guess this means that the Washington Post has officially become a Putinista supporter for telling the truth that the zeepers refuse to accept as the reality. It’s more important to them that they keep this conflict going, so all Ukrainians can die for nothing.
The kook who just tried to assassinate Trump was a recruiter for Ukraine’s International Legion:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4265009/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4265008/posts
The purpose of the Post’s article is to rally support for the US to fire long range missiles into Russia.
Anyone ever hear of The Pink Swastika?
Yup. Emotional appeal for “escalation” and for the US to take “more risks”.
“But I came away from the conference thinking the United States should take more risks to help Ukraine. It matters how this war ends. If Putin prevails, it will harm the interests of America and Europe for decades.”
And of course he hopes Biden says “yes” to firing long range missiles into Russia.
Ukraine cannot win this, and Russia clearly doesn’t want to destroy or annex Ukraine. Both sides are losing combatants. I’m going to suggest something really radical. How about peace?
The U.S. taxpayer is bleeding out faster than Ukraine.
How many Ukrainian mothers must cry at night for their dead sons so that The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate can cover up their crimes?
Democrats will do anything to support Putin.
Well, duh. This is what genocide looks like. Any who oppose Russian Nazis are killed. Anything that can’t be stolen by Russia is destroyed. Bit by bit the second largest nation in Europe, 40 million people, is erased in the classical Nazi manner. Sadly, the willfully blind and terminally stupid will always be unable to decipher the basic facts at hand of this issue.
You have been trying this act for too long now. It doesn’t and hasn’t worked.
You know that actually is a good idea. Would save face on both sides but unfortunately I think Russia would still want to take over Ukraine.
Still, why should we be involved. I say yes, ‘peace’ from our point of view. It was always a losing battle anyway and why should we get into WW3 over it.
After today, zeepers should BERY quiet here
I would shut up if I was you.
Nothing radical about that idea. Everyone wants peace except for the Russian Nazis busy genocidally erasing a neighboring country. Again. Be “radical” and call on them to stop their banditry, give back the Nuclear Power plant they have stolen from Ukraine and go home to Moscow. They can keep all the washing machines they want to steal. Deal?
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