Posted on 05/28/2025 3:30:47 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
A scenario European leaders would do well to consider, as Kyiv enters the Washington-sponsored peace process with profound frustration: with the White House determined to put an end to the war in Ukraine, the Europeans are telling Zelensky that no peace is necessary. The war can continue indefinitely, they say; and, if the Americans want out, Europe can still step in to fill the void.
But Zelensky is foolish to believe that the Europeans will save him from the forces of reality. Europe, the last bulwark of the once-insurmountable pro-war consensus, is a continent of hawks without beaks. Ukraine cannot defeat Russia with just European support. Ukraine will collapse.
Look at what will happen then. Ukraine’s predicament seems increasingly reminiscent of that of the Second Spanish Republic after its defeat at the battle of the Ebro in late 1938 destroyed any remaining hope of turning the tide.
Ukraine’s Ebro was its disastrous counteroffensive in 2023. Since then, Kyiv’s position has become more and more untenable. As the public loses the will to fight and political infighting in Kyiv becomes too loud to ignore, conditions seem increasingly ripe for a collapse of order and a grave internal crisis.
In March 1939, convinced that the war was lost and that prolonging it was causing a needless, useless loss of life, Spanish Republican officer Segismundo Casado deposed the pro-war government of Juan Negrín, leading to a collapse of the Republic and to the complete, unconditional victory of General Franco. Such fears appear more pertinent still if one considers that Zelensky is now a deeply unpopular leader, with polls suggesting he would lose a new election against former general Valeriy Zaluzhniy by as much as 25 per cent to 75 per cent of the vote.
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Ukraine will be Russian within five years if Putin keeps his job.
1945
Part of Russia.
That was easy.😊
It would look like Zelensky being introduced to the Ceaușescu protocol.
The Ukrainians hate the Russians.
So if the Russians want to crush the Ukrainians' will to fight, they have a long way to go.
“Ukraine could collapse. What will that look like?”
For Trump, he’d realize that he just got played by the Neocons, played BIG TIME.
“Ukraine will be Russian within five years if Putin keeps his job.”
5 Weeks if Putin gets replaced (or maybe even 5 minutes).
Two days before collapse, the oligarchs will be gone to a neutral country in their private jets. They will have already wired their billions out ahead of time.
What are our leaders thinking? Most likely, they are not thinking at all. Europe is stubbornly sticking to a policy of self-delusion, foolishly telling the Ukrainians to, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has put it, continue a war that was long lost. The sole sensible policy would be the opposite of what Macron, Merz, and Starmer are eyeing. Right now, true friends of Ukraine would tell it the truth: that even a withdrawal from the areas still controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk oblasts, together with geopolitical neutrality, limits on its military, and sizeable political and cultural concessions to Moscow—namely regarding the status of the Russian language and of the Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox Church—is still preferable to any likely alternative, and that to refuse this reality is to potentially compromise Ukrainian statehood itself.
Zeeper suicide attacks against civilians everywhere.
The clear answer for lasting Peace: carve up Ukraine to its historic territory. Poland, Hungary, Romania Russia each get back their historic territory.
That leaves “ Ukraine “ as a tiny rump nation it always was. We did it to Yugoslavia, and it has worked fine.
Send hot Uke chicks here...
This is from the Brussels Signal, a new publication which serves as Orban-friendly MCC’s mouthpiece, if people haven’t heard of it before :
Following last year’s launch of a Brussels satellite of the Budapest think tank MCC, Orbán’s allies now have separate news organizations scrutinizing and skewering the institutions: The European Conservative and the Brussels Signal.
I honestly think he’s in denial.
He’s having a difficult time letting go of the days when he could just bark and Biden would send another large infusion of untracked American tax dollars.
Withdraw from NATO, then debate this....
Nobody wants those predators.
...smart men don’t.
I will spin the wheel on a one nighter. Yeah.
Europe can send Ukraine all kinds of weapons but Ukraine is still running out of soldiers.
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