Posted on 11/19/2025 8:38:12 PM PST by AAABEST
Prominent Ukrainian activist and volunteer Serhii Sternenko criticized his country's military and political leadership on Nov. 17, warning that "we are headed toward a disaster of strategic magnitude, which could lead to the loss of statehood."
In an X post accompanied by screenshots of a critical Facebook post by a Ukrainian journalist, Sternenko stressed that remaining silent about the issues with Ukraine's military and political approach to the country's defense "is a crime."
"Our defense is falling apart," Sternenko, who works closely with various military units to supply their immediate needs, such as drones, said. "Under a stunning silence about it."
I read earlier on FR that there was some sort of "deal" in the works between the Trump and Putin admins where Russia would lease back the conquered territories from Ukraine. We'll see, but unless we're all missing something - like the entirety of world history - sounds like fantasy. The victor sets the terms, not the defeated. From what I've been made to understand, when Trump and Putin met in Alaska, Putin laid out exactly what he wanted in any "deal," and the terms were rather harsh. Among them, no Nazis, no NATO, no Zelensky, no giving up conquered lands. Period.
I heard Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel on Baier's panel today, spitting mad and demanding that Zelensky must be part of any negotiations to end the conflict. What planet do these people live on? They're completely disconnected from reality and actually believe their own echo chamber bullshit. Zelensky will be lucky to live, much less dictate terms. His main hope is expatriation to a safe nation, likely Israel.
The Wall Street Journal, Zeepers, the MIC, neocons, the globaloids and their orbit are hating life - but this is the end they insisted upon. Like all our failed wars, they thought if we just throw lots of money, fancy gear and bodies at the FEBA, we'll win. They were tragically wrong... yet again. Now, yet again, we all pay the price.
They, us and America at large, will have a massive black eye and lose a great amount of prestige - along with hundreds of billions of dollars, countless thousands of tons of gear and lots of young bodies. Europe is on its ass, and NATO may end.
They've brought us to a tragic, deadly, budget busting end, once again. Like all their humanitarian disasters, they will take no responsibility whatsoever. In fact, they'll push us right on to the next humanitarian disaster.
It's what they do.
Ping
It’s time for the Ukes to incite the other Russian subjugate populations to rise up. I know it didn’t work out too well for the Chechens, but the Ukes need to open up two or three other fronts.
nassssty little ukeses don’t deserve to win This war, they’ve already lost This war. pitin laughing all the way to the bank.
hahaha. maybe time to bomb Amsterdam too. Encourage them wooden shoed morons to take advantage of the opportunity to keep their moufs shet.
“It’s time for the Ukes to incite the other Russian subjugate populations to rise up. I know it didn’t work out too well for the Chechens, but the Ukes need to open up two or three other fronts.”
A ridiculous fantasy. You can’t get the USA or the EU to do it, so you come up with this crazy idea. Are you that bloodthirsty? Which “subjugate populations” are you thinking would sacrifice themselves to save Ukraine? Which of them would make a difference?
“Which “subjugate populations” are you thinking would sacrifice themselves to save Ukraine? “
I don’t think any of them would sacrifice themselves to save Ukraine. I just think this would be an opportunity to free themselves from the Rooskies. The Caucasus in particular, but also areas in Central Asia, and maybe even Russians in the Far East, who are very tired of Moscow’s rule.
Russian rule isn’t as popular as you think in large parts of its country.
Ukraine is doomed. Zelensky’s administration has laundered so much money given by the EU and the USA that nothing has left for providing stable defense! It’s impossible for Ukraine to win the war with such a rattle-brained president. No way
“I don’t think any of them would sacrifice themselves to save Ukraine. I just think this would be an opportunity to free themselves from the Rooskies.”
Nutz. Why haven’t they tried it? Be real. They’re too small and weak to get anything but massacred. The Chechens tried and lok what they got. And they’re the toughest of the lot. You just want to get a bunch of Russians killed, that’s all. It’s all about revenge to you.
Harsh analysis. Has the ring of truth. Well done.
Not necessary. Steiner’s coming to the rescue.
Vengeance for the flattening of Grozny or Kiev isn’t such a bad reason. The Rooskies do need their teeth kicked in for their bloody expansionist adventures. Don’t defend evil imperialists.
Lol. The delusions are strong with you.
” Don’t defend evil imperialists.”
The usual Ukie smear job. Anyone who doesn’t buy into your bloody ethnic wars and revenge is a Putin stooge etc.
So, you deny that the Ukraine war isn’t a bloody expansionist move by the Rooskies? And you deny that the Rooskies literally flattened Grozny to keep the Chechen territory?
Chechnya is a Russian territory taken over by Al-Qaeda terrorists at the time. Locals have never supported “independence” to start with and blamed America for separatism. They are the most staunch Putin’s supporters nowadays. What make you think Ukrainians won’t share their sentiments in twenty years?
“Vengeance for the flattening of Grozny or Kiev isn’t such a bad reason. The Rooskies do need their teeth kicked in for their bloody expansionist adventures.”
I got you pegged. You don’t GAF about what happens to those poor “subjuaged populations” as long as it gets Russians killed too. That’s just heartless and cruel.
“Vengeance for the flattening of Grozny “
Oh yeah, the Chechens, the “Heroes” of Beslan school. You got your bloody revenge cycle. Sick freak.
It’s funny - people here continue to claim that “Russian Rule” is horrible, as if they’re living under Communism.
But they COMPLETELY IGNORE what’s it’s like to live under EU Rule, where the leaders of those countries are actually DESPISED by their public in poll after poll, with the major countries (France and Germany, for starters), plus the UK, having their leaders polling at 20% approval, IF THEY’RE LUCKY.
So it sure would be nice if some of these clowns would think about how OPPRESSED people living in what was “The Free World” are, before spamming post after post of Neocon talking points, based on NOTHING but memories of Cold War days, if even that...and their INABILITY to imagine living in a country that DOES NOT Groom Children, make them drive EV’s, and censor the crap out of their Internet.
Thank you for the ping.
It was the inevitable outcome of strategic hubris in Europe and the US.
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