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davel@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

Zelensky admits Ukraine does not have military strength to reclaim lost territories from Russia

www.independent.co.uk

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www.independent.co.uk

davel@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago
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Ukrainian president rules out conceding land to Russia but calls for stronger Western intervention
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    Well Ukraine got worn out over last 2 years with spotty western support and weird restrictions on weapons usage.

    This is where the west wanted Ukraine. So here we are.

    Russia is weakened so west and US got what they wanted it so now we are ready to do a deal.

    Nobody will ever give up nukes after this and many countries are going to be getting their nukes in order as that is the only way to properly secure sovereignty and territorial integrity.

    Coupled with Israel behavior undermining “rules” based international order, this is the brave new world we got.

    Cheers.

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      The restrictions aren’t “weird”. These are weapons that need satellite guidance from NATO satellites and stockpiled at NATO bases.

      If they started being fired en masse, Russia would need to disable those satellites, and the US only instigated this war to weaken Russia and prevent it from arming anti imperialist resistance groups in the middle east. It’s not interested in actually fighting, because fighting an organized army is much harder, much costlier, and carries more risk than invading Asian countries with peasant militias.

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        US only instigated this war to weaken Russia

        Well, that’s certainly a perspective.

        Really unclear how the US forced Russia to invade, you’ll have to explain that part I think.

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          Not forced, more goaded. This is the war the US wanted, but it didn’t want to be seen as the one who started it.

          NATO expansion:

          • George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
          • Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
          • Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
          • Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
          • Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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          US-backed Maidan coup & fascist attacks on Eastern Ukraine:

          • Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
          • Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript
          • Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
          • BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
          • Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
          • Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
          • The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
          • The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
          • WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
          • Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
          • The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
          • openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
          • Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
          • Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
          • Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
          • NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
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            Love the “you made me do this to you” energy here, very progressive stance of believing that sometimes abusers just have to hit people, and there’s truly nothing that can be done about it.

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              The geopolitics of nuclear powers as an interpersonal relationship. Peak Marvel brain.

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