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They tell me Russia is losing. Doesn’t feel like it.
whaaaat? All the ‘reports’ we hear are about how ukraine is kicking butt- and he wants to surrender?
Ukraine has done a sh** job since they became independent. The "war" is substantially a Civil War. I'll bet 90% of those Ukrainians have a Russian heritage and many relatives and friends in Russia.
Winning!
Again ?
After all this I suspect Russia will get mostly what it wanted (a buffer state) which could have been agreed to in the first place since it doesn’t cost Ukrainians anything to not be in NATO.
This is Russian propaganda. Ukraine is whooping the Russkies’ ass!!
Biden needs his Nobel Peace Prize before the midterms. And Putin wants guarantees of NATO drawdown in Eastern Europe, and the Nord Stream II back. He also wants guaranteed land bridge to Crimea, Crimea, Dontesk and Lugesk recognized as part of Russia, no NATO membership for Ukraine, no US weapons stationed there, and to allow Regions parties and Communist Party of Ukraine back into politics in Kiev.
Peace is better.
Y guess is that if the stories are true that Russia is digging in…the fear of a bad turn is coming. When you corner a mad animal, you get their claws.
I could see Russia raking a step back and nuking Kiev. Then pulling out.
Zelinsky softens just as Mariupol falls and 40,000 plus Ukrainian are about to be encircled.
The part about conceding Ukrainian territory if a referendum is held to join Russia or as a breakaway republic is new
“Zelenskyy said earlier he’s given up on the idea of joining NATO but he’s insisted on putting other compromises, including any potential territorial concessions, to a referendum”
The territorial concession thing was the one thing Zelensky was holding out on. He had already hinted at not joining NATO and maintaining neutrality, perhaps enshrining it in the Ukie constitution. The Donbass is Russian ethnic territory and no doubt they would vote to go with Russia or as a breakaway republic much like the Crimeans favor. Seemingly, with this shift to moving troops back from Kiev to focus on the East, Putin has given up on his fantasy of having a puppet in Kiev. Other than that, Zelensky is telling Putin he can have the other stuff he wants. Time for Putin to talk to him.
Greg Gutfeld has the right take on this for Americans.
All this misery and destruction would not have happened if Trump was President.
Be sure to thank the Democrats for stealing the election.
Hard to believe that 16,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in just one month.
Based upon recent headlines in the PP (propaganda press), one would believe that he’s negotiating from a position of strength.
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Clearly not.
Okay so he claims 16k Russians killed. That seems like NATO’s upper end estimate +1k. I doubt there’s that many Ruke dead. I’m thinking 12k.
Ukrainian sovereignty must be “guaranteed,”
***Not just “assured” like the bullshiite we sold them in the Budapest Agreement. The Rukes will violate whatever new agreement they come up with.
If the Ukes had kept their nukes and never signed the Budapest Agreement, they would not have been invaded, twice.
Gee, is Ukraine winning. The media says so and the thousands of fead Russians they say make Ukraine a super war machine.