If Zelensky is replaced, his replacement may be even more intransigent about ending the war than Zelensky. No peace comes until Ukraine’s sponsors recognize Russia’s victory and agree to its terms. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
In seeming coordination this week, multiple publications began to throw Zelensky under the bus:
At the same time Seymour Hersh again mounted his oracle pulpit and declared—per his sources—that Zelensky is due to be replaced by Zaluzhny in the near future. Many have criticized Hersh for his record with previous predictions, however last month his prediction of strikes on Iran mere days before they happened did pan out quite accurately.
B at MoA covered this in full, so I don’t need to rehash every detail. But suffice it to say that it accords with Trump’s alleged recent opinion that Zelensky is the ‘main obstacle to peace’, despite new misgivings about Putin. B does point out that Hersh reportedly makes a perplexingly off-target claim about Russian losses, as follows:
I have been provided with new Russian casualty numbers, from carefully evaluated US and British intelligence estimates, that show that Russia has suffered two million casualties—nearly double the current public numbers—since Putin started the war in early 2022.
If the same sources who’ve furnished Hersh with such outlandish casualty figures are the ones who’ve relayed the latest Zelensky intel, then it certainly casts doubt on the rest of their info.
In fact, another round of new body exchanges has shown casualty disparities continuing in the stratospheric range, as Russia gave back 1,000 new bodies to Ukraine, and received 19 in return:
Press gangs and a 1000 to 19 KIA ratio will do that for GI Zelensky.
Does the hair have that same consistency as the GI Joe dolls from the seventies?
The oligarchs will decide when his time is up?