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TaiwanIsNotChina
Ukraine needs to be supported and that will stabilize everything. There is no need to consult the invader's opinion as it is solely responsible for this situation and can end it at any time.
JJE
Good that they didn't attack civilians in the Donbass again.
FizzBit
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But Zelenskyy remains firm on not engaging directly with Russia on peace talks and has said multiple times the initiative in peace negotiations belongs to the country paying the bill, the US.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Your statement that Zelenskyy wants another country to manage his peace process makes absolutely no sense.
Fighto!
Rest in Peace to the countless Ukrainuan civilians - including children - murdered by fascist Russia in their homeland.
englisc aspyrgend
Eastman, how is the 3 day SMO going? Still going to plan (poo tin seems to think so)? Well over 400K Muscovite casualties, a quarter of the mighty Black Sea Fleet sunk by an opponent without a navy, war now returning to the invader with daily strikes against military and military industrial targets in the muscovites own territory, economy tanking, inflation starting to spiral out of control, millions of the educated fleeing anywhere that will let them in to avoid being fed in to the meat grinder to feed a dictators ego, Chinese and Indian banks (you remember those great BRICS ally’s) refusing to carry out Muscovite transactions. Arms sales evaporating as they are shown to be the junk they really are, not to mention the decline from second best army in the world to second best in Ukraine.
Oh and let’s not forget the purported reason for launching this debacle, to stop the illusory expansion of NATO, now Sweden and Finland have been pushed by this criminal invasion of a neighbour in to joining NATO, a real expansion, well done.
So how is the 3 day SMO going?
TaiwanIsNotChina
At least you acknowledge that peace at this time means surrender.
Utter nonsense. Preserving Ukrainian land and independence absolutely has a military solution.
A ceasefire doesn't require any discussion.
Well internet commentators have sure figured things out and have no ulterior motive!!!
Zelenskyy is the elected representative of his people. They will build monuments to him in the future and be right in doing so.
Only junta is the strongman with no claim to legitimacy in Moscow.
Sanctions weren't tried hard enough, but at least Europe is realizing that fascists are not business partners.
They are dying in their own interest and that is as plain as day. The solution is to bleed the bear until it is powerless.
Mr Kipling
If that is the solution, poor Ukraine really has no chance. Sanctions have FAILED. Ukraine no longer has an economy. Russia is self sufficient in producing military supplies. Ukraine is dependent on handouts from other nations, several of which are losing interest. The Russian military is GROWING, Ukraine's is shrinking and recruiting from a less able population. The much heralded "Spring offensive" actually lost ground.
Time to stop the Ukraine can win fantasy. They are never going to battle their way to Crimea and the old eastern border. Too many elections in the near future so NATO leaders have to "stay strong" for the electors. They are not the ones dying.
ok1517
More terrorism by Russia!
Russia is a terrorist state under a terrorist dictator!
And Eastman, still don't understand?
The pope should have kept his mouth shut or visited Bucha, Irpin and some other places to clear his mind!
No peace negotiations unless President Zelenskyy's demands are completely fulfilled!
Everything else will only lead to more aggression, killing, murdering, raping and genocide by those Russian invaders! They won't stop until the reach the Rhine River (still valid old Russian doctrine!).
Ukraine prevails!
TaiwanIsNotChina
Only the US is losing interest. Militaries don't become more effective when they are experiencing massive losses like Russia is. Ukraine merely needs to hang on to what it has to win. And overall, Ukraine is fighting for its survival, whereas Russian convicts are fighting to stay alive and for Putin's glory. Ukraine will always have the better morale.
They don't have to: there is a world of difference between a free Ukraine with access to the sea and an enslaved Russian puppet state.
Ukraine is lasting longer than any of its allies.
Mr Goodman
Exactly !
Zelenskyy needs to negotiate
Mr Goodman
Ukraine isn't a NATO member
Mr Goodman
Yeah in never never la la land
Zelenskyy's demands will never be fulfilled.
I admire Ukrainian tenacity , but it's looking more like reckless stupidity recently
ClippetyClop
I'd hardly call defending your country from being obliterated by an authoritan murderer 'reckless'. I'd call it 'absolutely neccessary'.
Vatniks are a curious mob.
asdfgtr
@Mr Goodman,
According to you?
Some people wanted Churchill to negotiate away Europe to Hitler as well.
TokyoLiving
Same as kyiv regime did against Russian ethnic people in east Ukraine since the civil War..
Sadly is a war..
TokyoLiving
When??.. When??..
Russia keep gaining more land every day..
The war is lost for Kyiv regime..
It's just matter of time..
Wick's pencil
It's that support that started all this.
Ukraine already lost, and the sooner they admit it, the fewer will die.
Fighto!
You - and the many other supporters of fascist Russia - said this two years ago.
Clearly the fascist Russia fans have no understanding of how fiercely people - in this case the brave, strong Ukrainians - dig in to defend THEIR land from invading foreigners. I guess their ancestors put up the white flag and rolled over at the first sign of invasion through history - and the same thinking still prevails.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Javalins and training only started a war in the diseased mind of the invader.
ClippetyClop
They have?? Hurrah, the war is over!
So the Russians can now end their 'Special Military Operation' and go home, right?
Because apparently they aren't interested in conquering Ukraine, right?
Or has Putin sold you another lie?
stormcrow
Hopefully Ukraine will get the military assistance it needs before it’s too late.
Mr Kipling
Do you not remember the massive military aid that led to the great spring offensive?
The one that resulted in total failure? Please tell how the now weaker Ukraine military, the one finding it difficult to fill the ranks, is going to do better with less than before against a Russian military that is expanding?
ClippetyClop
Since the war is very much ongoing it obviously wasn't as 'total' as Putin told you that it was.
Apparently Russia has already won though, according to some of our other Vatniks here.
Didn't you get that memo?