Ukrainian servicemen of the 80th Independent Air Assault Brigade take a break at their base near the frontline town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine February 24, 2023. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Consortium News: Western Leaders Privately Say Ukraine Can’t Win the War
The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defense pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Western leaders privately told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine can not win the war against Russia and that it should begin peace talks with Moscow this year in exchange for closer ties with NATO.
The private communications are at odds with public statements from Western leaders who routinely say they will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes until it achieves victory on the battlefield.
The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the private remarks to Zelenksy, said:
“The public rhetoric masks deepening private doubts among politicians in the U.K., France and Germany that Ukraine will be able to expel the Russians from eastern Ukraine and Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014, and a belief that the West can only help sustain the war effort for so long, especially if the conflict settles into a stalemate, officials from the three countries say.
‘We keep repeating that Russia mustn’t win, but what does that mean? If the war goes on for long enough with this intensity, Ukraine’s losses will become unbearable,’ a senior French official said. ‘And no one believes they will be able to retrieve Crimea.’
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Zelensky at an Élysée Palace dinner earlier this month that he must consider peace talks with Moscow, the Journal reported.
According to its source, the newspaper quoted Macron as telling Zelensky that “even mortal enemies like France and Germany had to make peace after World War II.”
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WNU Editor: Ukraine President Zelensky is not listening .... Zelensky Says Ukraine Is Preparing to Attack Crimea (Antiwar.com).
On a side note. I always ask my Ukrainian friends and family members who are 100% convinced that Ukraine will win the war on how can that be accomplished when Russia has ten times the manpower, resources, and fire power committed to the war that Ukraine has. I am still waiting for an answer.
8 comments:
Zelensky will get many more killed before the inevitable takes place. Somone needs to take him out and put an end to his madness.
UN general secretary just gave a speech on human rights, how we made so much progress over the last 100 years, but now lately have moved backwards
And I was like "fcking incredible. UN finally talking about the massive human rights abuse during Covid, all the sinister deaths, the mass murder through wrong medical protocols, the silencing, the theft of trillions"
Nope. No word.
It was about the war in Ukraine. That's what the UN investigates and makes priority. Not what happened to 6 billion people when they were lied to and forced to take unsafe drugs. And all the money that flowed, how small businesses were destroyed, being locked down, while big stores profited like never before.
DEATH PENALTY is too good for these people.
The Russians have a vote now though I doubt it would count until there is more dissatisfaction with their current government. Much much more and even then I would expect a questionable result.
Probably the youth, who have experienced an unimaginable change starting with Gorbachev, will turn their backs on putin and like minded apartcheks[?].
Well no kidding? A blind man could have seen this coming.
They knew this from the beginning. But they wanted to please the US, and repeated the stupid narrative.
But now it is coming to the time to "pay the piper" and they are all cringing at the thought of it.
Anon 1:PM
Most of the world drank the koolaide of ignorance and dishonesty coming from the likes of Fow_see, gates and so forth. Gotta close up the ranks, ya know.
The efforts against polio were different back when. A sugar cube with a drop of vaccine for starters. Less hysteria, less ill thought out amounts of debt and deceit, and fewer "experts", not to mention the widespread impact of available to all media.
Now the "experts", "leaders", etc., have to worry about image.
Agree with your comments.
this man is need mental help
WNU, I'm sure you got your answer.
I'm sure it wasn't something you wanted to hear or believed in.
Even more surprising that you still call them 'Ukrainian' friends when in fact your blog has been the complete opposite.
Can't imagine the amount of brain damage I would need to suffer in order to conclude that this is a pro Russian blog when 90% of the linked articles are from outlets pushing the mainstream narrative.
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