No offense, I have been reading this same exact post for two years now. I think there is this perverse almost homicidal determination to want to encourage the Ukrainians to keep fighting without a clear end in sight.
Defending your country is perverse? Defending it from invaders is perverse?
I cannot fathom why any man would think that way if their country was invaded. The Russians are thugs, they rape and murder and pillage (they did that in the occupied zones) so why would you let them take over your own country?
The Ukrainians need no encouragement to fight. They only want the tools and supplies to defend themselves.
I'd like the talk to be around Putin ceasing operations. Pulling back. Then going to the Ukrainians and getting them to agree to shut it down. But the Russians did not honor their previous guarantee. They have been committing war crimes. Putin has been labeled a war criminal. Zelenskyy knows, like any military leader knows who has dealt with the Russians knows, a cease fire without something that hard and fast guarantees no further hostilities is simply allowing Putin to re-arm to gear up for another offensive. Think of the 800,000 Russian lives sacrificed too. Many of those recruits lied to as well.
There is a clear end goal. Get the fuck out of my country. Stop the rocket attacks on my civilians, hospitals, schools, and power grid. Russian 100% controls this war. If Ukraine stops, it ceases to exist as a sovereign country. Thus I 100% understand why the Ukrainians fight.
Having the US president parrot Kremlin talking points is a disgrace.
Now...I'm not naive enough to think Ukraine won't have to give something up. I think we all agree on that.
Completely pushing the Russians out likely won't happen either. But until the Russians stop this won't end. And without some guarantee like an EU army in a DMZ or something like that, Zelenskyy knows Putin will not honor any agreement to stop fighting. He'll stop for a bit, like a month, rearm, the fake some incident about Ukrainians murdering some russian grandmother then use that as a pretext to continue the assault. Remember they tried that before the invasion but US intelligence reported their ruse about 24 hours before they tried it so the world knew it was bs.
For now it seems the "deal" on the table is "give us half your mineral wealth and trust Putin."
Zelenskyy's counter is: "OK on the minerals as long as you give me something ironclad that does not rely upon trusting Putin."
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