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Ukraine is increasingly being pushed onto its back foot on the battlefield with critical U.S. aid on hold as a group of isolationist Republicans put up hurdles to future support for Kyiv. Zelensky told the Post they are “trying to find some way not to retreat” with U.S. aid in limbo. Troops are struggling to defend territory against a larger Russian army as resources, including ammunition and vital artillery shells, deplete from available stocks.

The Hill

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Zelenskyy reveals his Trump playbook: An invitation and a warning
In an exclusive interview, the president of Ukraine talks about his outreach to Trump, stalled Ukraine aid and Russia’s growing influence in the U.S.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine warned in an interview that Russian influence had pierced the American political system and rejected the idea, backed by allies of Donald Trump, that Ukraine could swiftly end the war just by making massive territorial concessions.
But Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he had privately urged Trump through intermediaries to travel to Ukraine and that Trump had expressed interest but had not yet committed to making a trip. Zelenskyy said he was open to hearing Trump’s proposals for the war, while making clear he was highly skeptical.

“If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with Axel Springer media outlets. POLITICO is owned by Axel Springer.

Zelenskyy continued: “I need very strong arguments. I don't need a fantastic idea, I need a real idea, because people's lives are at stake.”

Any deal that merely gave up land to Russian President Vladimir Putin in exchange for an end to hostilities, Zelenskyy said, would just open the way for more Russian wars of conquest in the future. A negotiated peace, he said, had to leave the Russian despot “no room to carry out his plans.”

Zelenski's ideas are very understandable, but are they realistic? Russia is weathering very well the sanctions imposed by the West. How long could she go on? In the meanwhile, Ukraine keeps being devastated and Zelenski is losing much consensus among the population.

The West has kept so far the promise, but two years have been longer than expected and other wars are distracting the public opinion.

The above being said I'm not in favor of easy concessions to Russia, but perhaps Zelenski should change some of his radical views. He has already made serious strategic errors like insisting on keeping terrain where it would have been easier to draw back (to the expense of many casualties). Ukrainian troops are not unlimited and Russia has a vast number of people on which to draw.

Mccoy do you remember Paramahansa Yogananda’s story about the boxer who gave one last slug when both fighters were at exhaustion? I believe this is the case here. We have a slogan here in the states; Liberty 🗽 or death.

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. Henry is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the convention to pass a resolution delivering Virginian troops for the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future United States presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

Wikepedia

Even Adolph Hitler was for his country and not for himself.

https://youtu.be/edQg5FXqG2k?si=a1ye8hRu-qBdonuL

‘Trump doesn’t believe in anything. With Trump everything is seen through the prism of how it will benefit Donald Trump.’ ~ John Bolton , National Security Advisor during the Donald Trump presidency.

China's treatment of the Uighurs and other ethic minorities has brought international condemnation, with about a million people thought to have been detained in camps in the Xinjiang region.

But in Mr Bolton's book, when Mr Xi defended building the camps, the US president suggested he approved of China's actions.

"According to our interpreter," Mr Bolton wrote, "Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53089609

So, maybe calling Trump 'Fuhrer Trump' constitutes an overestimation from your side?

😜 yea I guess I have backed off such a complimentary similarity !  😂
Even Mussolini wasn’t so full of himself as Donald Trump.