Posted on 07/13/2025 2:59:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
While Donald Trump – and other western leaders – are taking their time to catch up with reality, it is obvious that Vladimir Putin has no apparent desire to halt the war in Ukraine. A realistic future military and diplomatic strategy for Kyiv has to accept that fact – and formulate a new approach.
The past six months have been dominated by the erroneous assumption that it would be possible for Trump to negotiate a ceasefire, even an armistice. That would be followed by the arrival of an Anglo-French led stabilisation force to secure the future of Ukraine. But Putin has shown no desire to stop attacking.
A fresh Russian ground offensive is emerging towards Velykyi Burluk, 50 miles east of Kharkiv, and for now is making some rare gains: three miles in 10 days. More significantly, the cynical bombing of Ukraine’s cities by missile and drone is only intensifying, straining Kyiv’s air defences and leading to more civilian casualties.
A record 728 Shahed drones and 13 missiles were launched on the night of 8 July and the next morning, many at Lutsk in the west, though the bombardment of 597 drones and 26 missiles on Friday night and Saturday morning showed no slackening of violent intent. It will be soon possible for Russia to attack with 1,000 drones in a night, Ukraine believes.
In a paper written last month, Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defence minister, said “an acceptable armistice may never formally arrive” and that Kyiv should formulate “a revised theory of victory” – which accepts that the Kremlin considers itself engaged in a forever war against its smaller neighbour.
The former minister describes the new approach as “strategic neutralisation”, a permanent and dynamic military effort to ensure that Russia’s forces cannot advance...
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Demographics show 20 million people have left Ukraine.5-7 million went to Russia, the others fled all over the EU.
There is no one left to rebuild, very few will return.
You didn’t mention Ukrainian troops and how many will die
The Ukrs are considering drafting women by this fall and have already prohibited both men and women of draft age 18+ from leaving the country
Its Ukraines decision, and they seem determined to fight for their freedom.
Chinese-made paper ballots brought this war to America.
You skipped the Maidan coup of 2014 that installed an anti- Russian pro-Western govt with promises that Ukraine would join the EU and NATO and the hard right nationalists with militias funded by oligarchs undertook a civil war to cleanse Eastern Ukraine resisting the de-Russification plan. Crimea had transport links, agriculture water and electric power shut off. Zelensky did a comedy schtick about it.
“Its Ukraines decision, and they seem determined to fight for their freedom”
Fight to the last Ukie Male.
That will teach Pooty-Poo a lesson.
LOL, EVEN the pro-Russian Ukrainian president, who was later chased out in the "coup" got elected PROMISING TO JOIN THE EU.
No one wants to join Russia vs the much richer EU!
The people were never told the price they would pay to join the EU, meeting IMF demands for austerity and cutting trade links with Belarus and Russia. They were not made aware their country was being sold off, land and assets, to private western investors to try to meet those standards.
Nor were they aware the Minsk Accords to settle the civil fracture with eastern Ukraine..was actually a diplomatic feint to buy time for the West to build Ukraine into one of Europes largest armies in preparation for war with Russia …as admitted by Angela Merkel. A war Ukraine would be expected to launch.
The gift from Biden that keeps on giving. /sarc
He got cold feet when the terms demanded by the IMF and western agencies were revealed, not only economic austerity which would have led to unemployment and poverty, along with severing decades of a trade pact with surrounding countries…but the release from prison of a female politician convicted of corruption. This inclusion in the terms made it pretty clear she was a western ( CIA) tool of importance.
Ukraine needed to get out of a debt hole and Putin offered better terms.
But the color revolution for Ukraine was in motion and not to be stopped.
Fight to the last Ukie Male. That will teach Pooty-Poo a lesson.
Russian demands for surrender and barbarity seems to have given Ukraine no other option but to fight.
Ukraines people have traveled to Russia and the EU. They saw the standard of living in the EU is much higher.
There is a good reason EVERY former Eastern bloc nation joined the EU vs the Russian economic bloc
Then why isnt Ukraine in the EU yet?
Hmmm?
More promises over a decade or more by the Western European Populars to let Ukraine sit at the adult table….after they do their part, of course, to let their army try to be a sharp tool to be used against Russia.
And after the Western financiers and bankers corral them into economic servitude to repay the massive debt black hole they’ve become.
Btw…who paid off Ukraine’s debt when the eastern bloc broke up?
Then Ukies should fight…to the last male.
Then why isnt Ukraine in the EU yet?
Ukie’s just as corrupt as Ruzzia. That’s why.
Dare I ask who's paying for all of this?
LOL, poor Russia, completely blameless. Its the evil west that is using Ukraine as a "sharp tool to be used against Russia". Okay
If that's their wish, sure. Maybe they believe its better for 80% or whatever part of Ukraine and its people to be free rather than all of it being under Putins boot.
Putin, I suspect, wants Ukraine to surrender. From his past statements he wants the Russian speaking oblasts in the east independent from Ukraine and for Ukraine to be a neutral country with police but no army.
He will continue bombarding Ukraine until the people overthrow Zelensky and seek peace. - just a thought.
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