Ukrainians will keep on dying; European taxpayers will keep on paying; Zelensky and crew will keep on stealing. From Ian Proud at strategic-culture.org:
The truth is that Russia has the money to fight on for as long as it takes and Ukraine does not, Ian Proud writes.
In yet another shift from European leaders, the strategy now towards the war is ‘keeping Ukraine in the fight’. However, the outcome – Russian occupation of all of Donetsk – appears inevitable, whether that’s now or in the future. So if the Eurocrats can’t strong arm Belgium in allowing the illegal expropriation of Russian assets, then it will be ordinary European tax payers who have to pay for Zelensky’s fight.
Having been rebuffed by Donald Trump in his latest effort to obtain tomahawk missiles, Zelensky quickly turned up in London on 24 October, where the red carpet was rolled out by Keir Starmer and a handful of like-minded leaders, including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and the Prime Ministers of the Netherlands and Denmark. Since that time, I have repeatedly heard a new line from European leaders; that the west should do everything ‘to keep Ukraine in the fight’.
It isn’t made clear why Ukraine would want to continue to fight. It is still losing small amounts of land each day.
The truth is that, under Zelensky’s leadership, Ukraine has to fight on, backed by European leaders, out of a refusal to accept the terms of a peace deal with Russia that would involve Ukraine giving up its remaining towns in Donetsk.
Yet, one certainty in all of this is that Donetsk oblast is lost to Ukraine, either sooner, in the currently unlikely event that a peace deal is struck now, or later if Russia maintains the war for as long as it takes to claim it. President Putin has set himself a goal to take all of Donetsk and as of now, the greatest likelihood appears that he will eventually succeed.
If Ukraine and Russia’s positions do not shift, and there is no evidence that they will, then that consigns Ukraine to staying in the fight for at least one more year or until the Russian armed forced occupy all of Donetsk, whichever is sooner.
The lie at the heart of ‘keeping Ukraine in the fight’ is a belief – or rather a pretence – in Kyiv that the Ukrainian Armed forces can prevent the complete occupation of Donetsk.
And Zelensky has clearly persuaded the ever gullible Keir Starmer and others of this. During his London meeting, Zelensky spoke about Putin not wanting peace, but the truth is that he does not want peace. Because peace for Ukraine means political suicide for Zelensky.
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404 isn’t even a member of the rump vassals and gets more than members of the EU?