I think the weird thing for me is when I see these nato cheerleaders online pretending to be the good guys and cheering on this war. They either hate Ukraine or are genuinely oblivious to reality, I guess this is for them
What garbage. Russia lost over 2k men in one day last week. Every inch they take in Ukraine is soaked in young Russian blood. Russia is losing. It has achieved none of its original aims when it invaded Ukraine. America can just print money to fund this war. The ruble has collapsed as a consequence of it. Russia will never recover. It didn’t even have the resources to save its military bases in Syria. You are seriously deluded.
What is your source that Russia lost 2000 soldiers in one day? Because if it's the Ukrainian military then you might want to consider the possibility that it's propaganda. The reality of the situation is that Ukraine does not have enough men to continue this war for another year whereas Russia has not even tapped into its larger cities for recruitment yet. The Ruble has certainly taken a hit but this is Russia we're talking about and it's taken many hits over the years. Russia is a very self reliant country and it is massive.
I think you are overestimating Russia's mobilization capacity. If it were really as simple as mobilizing people from the cities, why not do it when Ukraine invaded Russia proper last summer? Why is it now relying on North Korean troops instead of mobilizing Russia's own? This war, which the Kremlin thought would be over in a week, has proven to be one giant exercise in self-humiliation, especially for Putin. Instead of rolling into Kyiv by March 2022, he would go on to see over half his initial advances rolled back within six months and a virtual stalemate ever since. All the while, he has been forced to broadcast Russian cowardice to the world by allowing Ukraine and the West to eviscerate one "red line" after another, all without the devastating retaliation he had vowed in each case. So, if Putin could simply mobilize more troops at will, he would have done it already - which raises the question: Why hasn't he? He hasn't mobilized more troops from the cities for the same reason that he hasn't mobilized the millions of internal troops which operate under the interior ministry and other security agencies: His regime, being autocratic, has no legitimacy worthy of the name, which means he can only rule by coercing and bribing his own citizens. This is a guy who's terrified of his own people, as the extravagant apparatus of repression he's constructed attests. When he tried to mobilize even a portion of the military's reserve troops in September 2022, it was a complete disaster, provoking massive domestic resistance. In the aftermath, more people fled Russia than were mobilized into the army. So to just go into Moscow and St. Petersburg and start rounding up conscripts en masse? It ain't gonna happen because it can't. Now, I'm hardly arguing that Ukraine has an unlimited supply of troops. But it has two things Russia doesn't: (1) a democratic regime, however flawed, which enjoys the basic domestic legitimacy such regimes tend to hold, and (2) an existential reason to fight. Yeah, we see those videos of them seizing draftees off the street; but how representative they are of the normal process of recruitment is another question entirely (in particular, I'm not sure how you figured that Ukraine can't last another year). And if Russia were to start making some *actual* advances, domestic sentiment would likely turn around pretty quickly. This is not even to mention that a decisive majority of Ukrainians (58%, as of November) reject a peace deal. Nor is it to mention the massive supply bottlenecks affecting Russian military production and which are set to accelerate next year (in short, they're using up materiel at a much faster pace than they can replenish it; see https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/14/russia-war-putin-economy-weapons-production-labor-shortage-demographics). In sum, Russia's position is far worse - and Ukraine's own likely better - than you seem to believe.
I take exception to a number of points you make here, if not the entire thrust of the essay. First, as Putin himself and many top Kremlin officials have admitted on many occasions, the war is not, in fact, about NATO; it is about destroying Ukraine as a state and nation. If that sounds far-fetched, you can hear it directly from the horse's mouth in this essay I wrote - with receipts: https://www.readthedetox.com/p/why-genocide
There is plenty of other evidence, aside from the Kremlin's own statements, that the war is not about NATO. First, Russia was already occupying part of the Donbas before 2022, a situation which had little to no chance of ever changing and which alone ensured that Ukraine would not be able to join NATO. Second, Moscow barely raised a fuss when Sweden and Finland joined, despite the latter sharing a very long border with Russia. In fact, Russia subsequently moved troops away from that frontier and committed them to Ukraine. Are we supposed to believe that Putin was worried one iota about the extremely distant prospect of Ukraine joining NATO when his reaction to these other countries *actually* joining NATO was so muted?
Finally, there's investigative reporting based on sources close to Putin who themselves confirm what his motivations were for invading in 2022 - again, to destroy Ukrainian state and nationhood. NATO had precisely zero consideration in his mind, aside from his belief that the alliance would be too weak-willed to support Ukraine's defense.
Moving on, your claim that this is a "proxy war" by NATO, as if NATO countries somehow had to egg on Ukrainians to compel them to fight for their existence, is not defensible.
As for your claim that Ukrainian morale is shot and the population ready for peace, opinion polls suggest otherwise. A land-for-peace deal continues to be rejected by a decisive majority of Ukrainians; as of last month, 58% reject it while only 32% approve. The 32% figure represents a significant increase from previous polls, yet it's still not close to where it would need to be for Zelensky to seriously consider signing anything. https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1447&page=1
Even if, by some miracle, Russia and Ukraine could arrive at some agreement acceptable to both, it still wouldn't work. Given Ukrainian public resistance to such a deal, Zelensky would likely lose power and be replaced by someone more hawkish who promised to tear up the agreement. But that's not even the most serious obstacle: In the event a deal was signed, a substantial chunk of Ukraine's army and veterans would continue to fight, as they themselves have attested in opinion polls. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/06/ukraine-public-opinion-russia-war?lang=en
Here's the thing: Ukrainians, much like Palestinians, are facing a war of extermination against them. It makes no sense to oppose the genocide of the Palestinians while advocating measures which would enable it in Ukrainians' case - and "peace" proposals certainly fit that bill. What Ukrainians are fighting for is to *avoid* what has already happened to the Palestinians - a multi-decade occupation by a foreign state. If there are ways to prevent that from happening, we should support them. In particular, this means using the hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian assets held in European jurisdictions to fund Ukraine's defense. There's really nothing stopping Europe from doing this aside from its own cowardice.
I think the weird thing for me is when I see these nato cheerleaders online pretending to be the good guys and cheering on this war. They either hate Ukraine or are genuinely oblivious to reality, I guess this is for them
Maybe Ukraine is important for reasons you have not considered?
There is a geo-political strategy which leads to a globalist end game.
I wrote about it here: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-mother-of-all-false-flag-events
What garbage. Russia lost over 2k men in one day last week. Every inch they take in Ukraine is soaked in young Russian blood. Russia is losing. It has achieved none of its original aims when it invaded Ukraine. America can just print money to fund this war. The ruble has collapsed as a consequence of it. Russia will never recover. It didn’t even have the resources to save its military bases in Syria. You are seriously deluded.
What is your source that Russia lost 2000 soldiers in one day? Because if it's the Ukrainian military then you might want to consider the possibility that it's propaganda. The reality of the situation is that Ukraine does not have enough men to continue this war for another year whereas Russia has not even tapped into its larger cities for recruitment yet. The Ruble has certainly taken a hit but this is Russia we're talking about and it's taken many hits over the years. Russia is a very self reliant country and it is massive.
I think you are overestimating Russia's mobilization capacity. If it were really as simple as mobilizing people from the cities, why not do it when Ukraine invaded Russia proper last summer? Why is it now relying on North Korean troops instead of mobilizing Russia's own? This war, which the Kremlin thought would be over in a week, has proven to be one giant exercise in self-humiliation, especially for Putin. Instead of rolling into Kyiv by March 2022, he would go on to see over half his initial advances rolled back within six months and a virtual stalemate ever since. All the while, he has been forced to broadcast Russian cowardice to the world by allowing Ukraine and the West to eviscerate one "red line" after another, all without the devastating retaliation he had vowed in each case. So, if Putin could simply mobilize more troops at will, he would have done it already - which raises the question: Why hasn't he? He hasn't mobilized more troops from the cities for the same reason that he hasn't mobilized the millions of internal troops which operate under the interior ministry and other security agencies: His regime, being autocratic, has no legitimacy worthy of the name, which means he can only rule by coercing and bribing his own citizens. This is a guy who's terrified of his own people, as the extravagant apparatus of repression he's constructed attests. When he tried to mobilize even a portion of the military's reserve troops in September 2022, it was a complete disaster, provoking massive domestic resistance. In the aftermath, more people fled Russia than were mobilized into the army. So to just go into Moscow and St. Petersburg and start rounding up conscripts en masse? It ain't gonna happen because it can't. Now, I'm hardly arguing that Ukraine has an unlimited supply of troops. But it has two things Russia doesn't: (1) a democratic regime, however flawed, which enjoys the basic domestic legitimacy such regimes tend to hold, and (2) an existential reason to fight. Yeah, we see those videos of them seizing draftees off the street; but how representative they are of the normal process of recruitment is another question entirely (in particular, I'm not sure how you figured that Ukraine can't last another year). And if Russia were to start making some *actual* advances, domestic sentiment would likely turn around pretty quickly. This is not even to mention that a decisive majority of Ukrainians (58%, as of November) reject a peace deal. Nor is it to mention the massive supply bottlenecks affecting Russian military production and which are set to accelerate next year (in short, they're using up materiel at a much faster pace than they can replenish it; see https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/14/russia-war-putin-economy-weapons-production-labor-shortage-demographics). In sum, Russia's position is far worse - and Ukraine's own likely better - than you seem to believe.
Nope! That's Jewish wishful thinking!
I'm curious; if that's Jewish wishful thinking, what would gentile wishful thinking look like?
Armageddon!
Death to Satan’s Kingdom on Earth “israel”
and the Jewish Nazis!
Ah. That's helpful. Thank you.
Russia is now stronger. NATO weaker. Europe now is ECONOMICALLY DEPENDENT ON USA.
I take exception to a number of points you make here, if not the entire thrust of the essay. First, as Putin himself and many top Kremlin officials have admitted on many occasions, the war is not, in fact, about NATO; it is about destroying Ukraine as a state and nation. If that sounds far-fetched, you can hear it directly from the horse's mouth in this essay I wrote - with receipts: https://www.readthedetox.com/p/why-genocide
There is plenty of other evidence, aside from the Kremlin's own statements, that the war is not about NATO. First, Russia was already occupying part of the Donbas before 2022, a situation which had little to no chance of ever changing and which alone ensured that Ukraine would not be able to join NATO. Second, Moscow barely raised a fuss when Sweden and Finland joined, despite the latter sharing a very long border with Russia. In fact, Russia subsequently moved troops away from that frontier and committed them to Ukraine. Are we supposed to believe that Putin was worried one iota about the extremely distant prospect of Ukraine joining NATO when his reaction to these other countries *actually* joining NATO was so muted?
Finally, there's investigative reporting based on sources close to Putin who themselves confirm what his motivations were for invading in 2022 - again, to destroy Ukrainian state and nationhood. NATO had precisely zero consideration in his mind, aside from his belief that the alliance would be too weak-willed to support Ukraine's defense.
https://www.ft.com/content/80002564-33e8-48fb-b734-44810afb7a49
https://verstka.media/kak-putin-pridumal-voynu
Moving on, your claim that this is a "proxy war" by NATO, as if NATO countries somehow had to egg on Ukrainians to compel them to fight for their existence, is not defensible.
As for your claim that Ukrainian morale is shot and the population ready for peace, opinion polls suggest otherwise. A land-for-peace deal continues to be rejected by a decisive majority of Ukrainians; as of last month, 58% reject it while only 32% approve. The 32% figure represents a significant increase from previous polls, yet it's still not close to where it would need to be for Zelensky to seriously consider signing anything. https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1447&page=1
Even if, by some miracle, Russia and Ukraine could arrive at some agreement acceptable to both, it still wouldn't work. Given Ukrainian public resistance to such a deal, Zelensky would likely lose power and be replaced by someone more hawkish who promised to tear up the agreement. But that's not even the most serious obstacle: In the event a deal was signed, a substantial chunk of Ukraine's army and veterans would continue to fight, as they themselves have attested in opinion polls. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/06/ukraine-public-opinion-russia-war?lang=en
In short, however much the relevant actors might want a peace deal, it is not going to happen. So we may as well stop talking about it as if it might. I explain more here: https://www.readthedetox.com/p/a-peace-deal-in-ukraine-is-not-going
Here's the thing: Ukrainians, much like Palestinians, are facing a war of extermination against them. It makes no sense to oppose the genocide of the Palestinians while advocating measures which would enable it in Ukrainians' case - and "peace" proposals certainly fit that bill. What Ukrainians are fighting for is to *avoid* what has already happened to the Palestinians - a multi-decade occupation by a foreign state. If there are ways to prevent that from happening, we should support them. In particular, this means using the hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian assets held in European jurisdictions to fund Ukraine's defense. There's really nothing stopping Europe from doing this aside from its own cowardice.