Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to send out a firm message of defiance.
When we met this weekend in the government headquarters in Kyiv, he said that far from losing, Ukraine would end the war victorious. He was firmly against paying the price for a ceasefire deal demanded by President Vladimir Putin, which is withdrawing from strategic ground that Russia has failed to capture despite sacrificing tens of thousands of soldiers.
Putin, Zelensky told me, has already started World War Three, and the only answer was intense military and economic pressure to force him to step back.
“I believe that Putin has already started it. The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him… Russia wants to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves.”
Putin wants to, but can’t. Ue doesn’t have the economy to sustain a war on that scale. He hopes to destabilise NATO, the EU and the US (and has had quite a bit of success) so he can pick us off one by one.
The way to stop him is to stay united and ensure victory for Ukraine. A victory for Putin would only empower him.
Mail complaints and viceral disgust directly to the gremlins in the kremlin. Overnight express, if one can afford the postage.
Let’s get a grand alliance together to stop Putin and his axis of evil, no more p*ssyfooting around. Make Ukraine part of Nato, activate article 5, and unify the fronts. One giant war all the way from the Baltics over Teheran to Taiwan and Korea. That will show him for starting WW3.
I feel bad for the Ukrainians, but reality is starting to set in.
Their kingdom and the allegiances it made was not enough to defend against Russia’s kingdom and the allegiances they made.