Ukraine has been hyping Russia’s extreme losses for a while, and this has been their element of psychological warfare. Western media are uncritically reporting Ukrainian figures. However, we never hear about Ukrainian losses, how much does it cost Ukraine to hold the line? In this propaganda, the Ukrainians seem totally invincible but the latter aren’t winning any new territory back. All this propaganda does is feed the hope that Ukraine has a chance to win this war, which is quite frankly only causing further destruction of Ukraine. Ukraine’s historical mission it seems is to perish, while giving Russia the black eye.
So, the Czech media bring up a poll among 601 people conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology that says 54% of Ukrainians don’t want to cede Donbas to Russia. 69% think that Russia wants to genocide the Ukrainians and take away their statehood. 83% think that Russia wants to achieve greater goals than just the takeover of Donbas. 3/4 think that the Ukrainian military is able to hold back the Russians. They believe Russia is advancing slowly with huge losses, and will eventual exhaust itself.
601 in a country that had like 30 – 40 million people before the war (at least officially because Zelensky refused to conduct a census) seems kinda low. Any marketing research here in Czechia gathers like 3,000 respondents. But Ukraine is fucked anyway. The more they continue this war, the worse it will get, the more land will they lose, the more people will leave. In fact, they shouldn’t even have started this in the first place. 😆👌
The Russians are gonna step up the pressure, gradually. Ukraine failed to accept Russia’s demands in Istanbul, Russia changed its strategy. Ukraine kept attacking Russian refineries, now Kiev is freezing. Russia will gradually increase the cost until Ukraine agrees to the demands Russia made clear and did not really change for years. I heard the opinion that Zelensky is purposefully dragging this until the very end and then he will flee to London, and head government in exile, Ukraine be damned. 😆👌
You know what, I find this utterly improbable. Venezuela is far from Russia and there was no way Russia could help Maduro. Ukrainian troops are getting grinned in Donbas. Russia does need to make deals with the Americans to defeat the Ukrainians.
The Czech media are also reporting this with reference to New York Times, they say Putin was given free hand in Ukraine in exchange for Maduro.
LMAO, British bases in Ukraine are the reason for invasion in the first place. These statements by Starmer have zero weight. Besides, Russia would have to be pressured into a ceasefire in the first place.
I don’t know if you can trust these polls from Ukraine but if any referendum was held on the status of these territories in Ukraine, this would be the result. And then Zelensky would say that he cannot constitutionally cede territory.
And what I find absolutely dumb is that the people of Halychyna (Western Ukraine) would decide the fate of the people of Donbas and Crimea. Why should they have any say in this?
Peace talks are a joke at this point. Trump thinks that he can sell Putin a good deal. But the latter knows that an unfinished war would flare up again. The Ukrainians and their Western supporters think that Ukraine still has a chance to win and deal a strategic defeat to Russia. This is the aim of this war, to either defeat Russia, or defeat Ukraine. And it will only be resolved through the capitulation of one of the sides.
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