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Zelenski Changes His Peace Plan
Zelenski's 'peace summit' in Switzerland had failed:
The reviews of Zelenski's latest show ain't positive:
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The summit served warmed up bullshit without any significant nutritional value. The most important points weren't even discussed:
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The war will continue until the complete destruction of the Ukrainian forces can no longer be ignored.
The last point may have come earlier than anticipated.
On June 27 Zelenski had changed tact (machine translation):
During a speech in Brussels, the president said that Ukraine wants to start negotiations on ending the war in the near future.
"Ukraine does not want to prolong the war, we do not want it to last for years. We need to put a settlement plan on the table within a few months, " he said.
Zelensky said that in the near future it is planned to develop a plan for the second world summit.
On June 28 he gave more details (machine translation):
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine will present its detailed peace plan "this year".
The President announced this during a press conference in Kyiv.
"It is very important for us to show an end-of-war plan that will be supported by the majority of the world. This is the diplomatic path that we are working on. Not everything depends on us, our production of technology, drones, and artillery is really increasing, because we need to be strong on the battlefield. Because Russia understands nothing but force. These are two parallel processes: be strong and develop a detailed, clear plan, and it will be ready this year, " Zelensky said.
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Note that the Ukrainian peace plan has long been presented by Zelensky. It implies the withdrawal of Russian troops to the borders. However, many countries of the world (especially representatives of the "global South") consider it unrealistic.
In other words, a new plan will probably be prepared.
Earlier Russia's President Putin had announced his conditions for a permanent peace agreement. How many of them will Zelenski accept within his new 'peace plan'?
America is winning this war of attrition. Imagine the incredulous looks of the cold warriors from decades past, if someone had predicted the Soviet Union would sink into civil war, Kiev would become a western stronghold, huge armies of Slavic soldiers would be battling each other, western weapons would freely flood the battlefield, the Russian flagship sunk, Russian energy production under attack, even beachgoers in Crimea bombed.
The Cold War think-tank types might ask with a smile: “Did Russia lose its nukes?”
And yes, Russia did lose its nukes, metaphorically. The minute Putin went for Kyiv, he turned a border struggle into an invasion. Once Ukraine was on its heels, any nation could sell weapons to Ukraine, because that is way the arms industry works, on both sides. Before the war, even sending the Ukraine Javelins was a big deal.
This is a civil war. Every time infrastructure is hit, in either Ukraine or Russia, it diminishes the same civilization and people. Ukraine is like Texas. One could make historical arguments that it was once independent, once part of Mexico, whatever propaganda you need; yet a war between Texas and the rest of the USA would be a disaster for both, especially, this type of war, an inept slog of constant killing and destruction.
Why did Putin do it? He thought he could take Ukraine like it was Somalia … go in light, shock and awe, and impose his own reality. His inept, corrupt generals and advisors reinforced the illusion that Ukraine was 404, as the barflies say. The battle for Kyiv was lost and the slog began. The push to Kyiv was not a feint to help Donbass, one would have to be delusional to believe that.
Yet why did Putin do it? Because he is a Russian elitist. I have noticed on a number of sites, like The Saker, the disrespect for Ukraine, the constant explanations of why their culture is inferior, why their nation is less real, why their people are cowardly failures for not marching lockstep with Russia. At best Ukrainians are seen as children to the Russia warmongers. The Ukrainians are viewed as sub-humans, or more precisely, sub-Russians … that sadly must be punished.
In reality, Ukraine has done very well. They have stopped Russia cold and plunged Putin into a quagmire. How much more basic can military strategy get? If a defending nation is able to halt an invader, slow them down to a crawl, they are succeeding.
Yet the real winner is the United States. They get a fantasy civil war in the old Soviet Union, and any dying or destruction, Zelensky’s people are absorbing — brothers, sisters, cousins of Russia.
Posted by: Napoleon | Jun 30 2024 18:01 utc | 217
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