Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
One of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s closest aides has told Time Magazine that the Ukrainian leader has deluded himself into thinking Ukraine can win an ultimate victory against Russia after the failed counteroffensive and amid waning support for the conflict in the West.
The report said that despite the setbacks, Zelensky “does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.”
“Nobody believes in our victory like I do. Nobody.”
Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s lonely fight to save Ukraine as war fatigue spreads https://t.co/7uvz7N4Bh8 pic.twitter.com/tgaQyasld3
— TIME (@TIME) October 30, 2023
The aide said Zelensky “deludes himself,” adding, “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.” The report said that the idea of negotiating peace or a temporary truce with Russia remains taboo to Zelensky.
“For us it would mean leaving this wound open for future generations,” Zelensky told Time. “Maybe it will calm some people down inside our country, and outside, at least those who want to wrap things up at any price. But for me, that’s a problem, because we are left with this explosive force. We only delay its detonation.”
A senior Ukrainian military officer told the magazine that the armed forces has had to second guess orders that came from Kyiv’s political leadership, including an order to capture the Donetsk city of Horlivka.
“They don’t have the men or the weapons,” the officer said. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”
Ukraine is not just running low on weapons to fight the war but also manpower. One of Zelensky’s aides said even if Ukraine’s Western backers supplied all the arms they need, “we don’t have the men to use them.”
The report also detailed the corruption in the Ukrainian government that led to Zelensky’s recent move to sack former Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov. The author of the Time story, Simon Shuster, said he naively thought a Ukrainian official would think twice before taking a bribe, but an adviser to Zelensky told him otherwise. “Simon, you’re mistaken,” the adviser said. “People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow.”
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Zelensky will end up very rich man in some other country, if he survives to get out of Ukraine at the end.
The people of Ukraine will continue to pay the price for Zelenski’s psychopathy, until they have the courage to go after him and take him out.
The Jewish people will also be the ones who will end up paying the price for Netanyahu’s insane murder campaign as they did during the 1960’s, when the battlefield moved to the synagogues and other civilian gathering places.
It seems that the perpetrators of crime on the world stage are rarely the people who pay the price for their evil and insanity.
The Jewish people will also be the ones who will end up paying the price for Netanyahu’s insane murder campaign
They get there thru their compliance with the govt and TPTB
By that reasoning, then we as Americans, are guilty of every genocidal sin our government has committed, which are too numerable to count, even though many of us have opposed it.
It is the defining problem of a ‘democracy’ that when a mob rules the whole will suffer. When the People vote for criminals they get ruled by criminals.
By openly opposing and not participating in their criminal enterprise you do not bear the guilt but will still pay the price. If you participate and legitimize their criminality, then you bear their guilt as well.
Too much cocaine skews one’s thinking. Visions… maybe delusions is a better word… of greatness, invulnerability, & being right are among the mental twists.
The US intelligence agencies control the content in the MSM. For them to publish this article is evidence that they have turned on Zelenski and are going to attempt to blame the failure of the war on him.
As many times as the US has instigated loosing wars, and then run away after the countries we were claiming to help have been destroyed, you would think by now no one would set themselves up for that scenario.
Instead of continuing on his world-wide fund raising tour, maybe Zelensky could actually go home to Eukraine and see what is going on. If he does, he will probably need to take along a few food-tasters.
War is easy from afar. Chuck his ass in the front lines and see how fast that tune changes….POS
Too many have died for nothing.