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Dreading November
A little help here. More help. A little more help. And posthaste.
That, in a nutshell, was Volodymyr Zelensky's message to NATO this week.
Regaling an audience at the Reagan Institute in Washington, Zelensky implored Kyiv's allies to get moving. "It's time to make decisions," he said, speaking just 48 hours after a Russian missile barrage killed dozens in Ukraine and damaged the nation's largest pediatric hospital.
The world, and particularly America, shouldn't "wait for November," he went on
I really feel for Ukraine and Zelensky, time is running out on them and he knows it, Putin’s plan of waiting until the US election is starting to look like a checkmate move. The “Democratic” West lost a golden opportunity to provide real support to Ukraine and call Putin’s bluff while we had a chance, the US will likely pay dearly for this blunder, but for Ukraine the cost will be existential.
If Trump is elected and cedes Crimea to Putin, Odessa will be next, followed by the whole Black Sea litoral to Transnistria (the breakaway, Russia-aligned province of Moldova), effectively turning what’s left of Ukraine into a landlocked state with no Black Sea ports for its huge grain harvests. End of story for the Ukrainian people.
I am seeing lots of negative posts in comments on the web about Biden, much like I saw about Hillary in 2016. I can’t help but think these are Russian Disinformation posts posting in comment sections around the internet. Sort of like an attack by ants.
Without US help, I hope the EU/Germany finally wakes up and we help the Ukrainian thoroughly defeat the Russian invasion.
TBH, recent assessments of the situation on the ground are pretty favorable to Ukraine. Russia expanded a lot of material and men when Ukraine was at its weakest (thanks to US Congress wannabe traitors) and didn’t get much for its efforts, not to mention that the fear of Russian advances convince the US, the UK etc. to loosen the RoE for Ukraine and allow it to attack Russian territory with western weapons.
The end result seems a strategic loss for Putin, even if he got 100 km2 out of all that.
Ukraine can really bleed and eventually destroy the Russian army by itself. But it does need the weapons to do it.