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Zelensky says Ukraine ‘lacks the strength’ to retake Crimea and Donbas
Meduza ^ | December 18, 2024 | Source: Le Parisien

Posted on 12/21/2024 6:41:07 AM PST by Navy Patriot

Ukraine’s military cannot independently retake Crimea and Donbas, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Parisien, published on Tuesday.

He warned that entering negotiations with Putin under current conditions would give the Russian leader the power to dictate terms across the region.

“First, we need to develop a model, an action plan, a peace plan — call it what you will. Then, we can present it to Putin or, more broadly, to the Russian people,” Zelensky explained.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beggarofkiev; bidenfamilybusiness; entirelypredictable; fromday1; ithoughtrussiawon; putinsfolly; putinswar; ukraine; zeepershasthesads; zeepersindespair; zestinky
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Zelensky has no strength and no plan.

He does have a lot of your money.

1 posted on 12/21/2024 6:41:07 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

And a sliver or two of Mother Russia. Smart move to grab some for bargaining chips. Hopefully they can hold on to it.


2 posted on 12/21/2024 6:44:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Ukraine’s military cannot independently retake Crimea and Donbas, President Volodymyr Zelensky said...

Translation - Send in NATO...now...or the gig is up.

JMO, YMMV

3 posted on 12/21/2024 6:46:11 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Navy Patriot

Admitting it surrender the territory and go to England where you will be granted asylum for your crimes.
Stop wasting the lives of your young men. Admit the millions you grifted to the Bidens!


4 posted on 12/21/2024 6:46:33 AM PST by TStro (Come and take it!)
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To: Navy Patriot

It’s foolish to think that the borders of the earth are going to remain constant forever. They have always been flexible.


5 posted on 12/21/2024 6:46:46 AM PST by Strict9
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To: Navy Patriot

to the people....are there any left??


6 posted on 12/21/2024 6:46:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Navy Patriot

Ukraine doesn’t have the strength to hold what is has left.


7 posted on 12/21/2024 6:47:15 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Navy Patriot

This is one stupid politician.


8 posted on 12/21/2024 6:48:11 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Navy Patriot

So let’s give Donbas and Crimea (back) to Russia.

Russia gives Ukraine some massive financial considerations (cheap energy for a long time).

We have peace, and everyone gets back to doing something useful.


9 posted on 12/21/2024 6:48:48 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Sacajaweau

Remind me again, what office were you ever elected to?


10 posted on 12/21/2024 6:50:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: TStro

Of course , Putin who started this should be rewarded for his war crimes, got it


11 posted on 12/21/2024 6:51:53 AM PST by blitz128
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Zelensky: "NONE SHALL PASS!"


12 posted on 12/21/2024 6:52:56 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Sacajaweau

“..This is one stupid politician...”

Maybe so, but that certainly says a lot about ourrs...LOL
He was/is smart enough to grift billions and billions of hard-earned American taxpayer dollars from our morons and then played em like a fiddle for more and more.


13 posted on 12/21/2024 6:57:18 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Navy Patriot
Ukraine’s military cannot independently retake Crimea and Donbas, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview

I think most people have known that for quite some time.

But "independently" is, ah, "troubling". If he's asking NATO to step in then the answer is not no, but hell no because that leads to WWIII and that leads to nuclear exchanges. So, no.

14 posted on 12/21/2024 6:58:30 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

I think this is the most likely plan for peace that both sides could/should accept.

Maybe Zelensky is coming to the same realization, finally.


15 posted on 12/21/2024 6:59:22 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: blitz128

Putin will continue to take land until Ukraine makes a deal.


16 posted on 12/21/2024 6:59:41 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Eccl 10:2

So let’s give Donbas and Crimea (back) to Russia.
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Giving the ethnic Russian Donbass back to Zelensky will result in another bloodbath for the Russian population. St Z’s Neo Nazis will be unleashed yet again, as it was in 2014 when they started shelling Donetsk and Lughansk.


17 posted on 12/21/2024 7:00:55 AM PST by delta7
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To: Navy Patriot

And trying to take back the Crimea and the Donbas ends the war - how?

Misplaced priorities and futile ambition.


18 posted on 12/21/2024 7:02:33 AM PST by alloysteel (This is yet another test. There are no right or wrong answers, only the correct response for you.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Earth to Zelensky: The curtain is about to come down on the human catastrophe you have staged and kept running for far too long.

P T Barnum said a sucker is born every minute.

But not the kind of sucker that’s been funding you, the comedian who has become the regional gangster challenging the old guard gangster in Moscow.

A superpower with the world’s most prodigious press to print money won’t play the sucker for ever.

The new sheriff on the world stage don’t take kindly to little men who talk the big talk using other people’s money.


19 posted on 12/21/2024 7:04:42 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: TStro

Admitting it surrender the territory and go to England where you will be granted asylum for your crimes.
Stop wasting the lives of your young men. Admit the millions you grifted to the Bidens!
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That will not help him, the Ukrainian people are awakening to what St Z and the West has done to them. There will be no safe place for him….and he knows this.


20 posted on 12/21/2024 7:07:05 AM PST by delta7
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