Comments on: Why Ukraine’s Stalemate Will Likely Last Another Year ?

By: penny2

penny2 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:20:50 +0000

Sorry for my spotty updates and absence
Have been dealing with elderly parent issues for past couple of weeks.
I’ll be back!
You’ve been warned 🙂

By: Gallier the Elder

Gallier the Elder — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:58:03 +0000

There are five main points in military affairs.
If you can attack, you have to attack.
If you can’t attack, you have to defend.
If you are not able to defend yourself, you have to flee.
The remaining two points mean only surrender or death.
Sima Yi (Chinese strategist and politician [179-251])

By: Mark Finnegan

Mark Finnegan — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:26:25 +0000

In reply to Gary Wilson.

Well said, Gary.
Note how the word ‘negotiate’ never appears in the article. Instead the author uses “bargaining and haggling”. Well they will not haggle a bargain out of Putin when he dictates the terms of surrender. Also the onus is all put on Zelensky to end the war, no mention of NATO or the US negotiating to end the war they started and financed.
When surrender terms are agreed upon their will be no chance of what’s left of the Ukraine entering NATO and moving missiles into the Russian defensive sphere. Putin’s war aims were clearly stated. (As opposed to ours).
A terrible video was posted today of female Ukrainian casualties in the trenches, their situation is critical all along the front, the Ukrainian army will crumble, the Russians have amassed a vast stockpile of missiles and infantry reserves, and this might not last too long into 2024.
I see a flicker of hope that the end is near.

By: Gary Wilson

Gary Wilson — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:11:05 +0000

Hi Penny:
Words like stalemate and frozen conflict only describe the bias of the western media like Time. For some time now Ukrainian solders have been simply cannon fodder in the failed attempt for Ukraine to regain territory. Entrenched Russian soldiers kill the poor Ukrainian soldiers sent at them. At the beginning of the special military operation it was said that the US would fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian. This has been becoming true. It is amazing to me that no one cares about the horrendous number of Ukrainian solders being killed or horribly wounded. In the world I live in, money is the only thing of value and human lives have no value in the attempt to make money.
In Russia, Putin is a pacifist. The military and the Russian population want the military to march west to the Polish border and end this thing. Putin, however, wants to live with the Ukrainian people after this is over and he does want to provoke NATO to enter the war even when a NATO war would not go well for NATO as NATO cannot compete with the current Russian military. What is NATO’s defence against hypersonic missiles? They will easily put NATO’s ships at the bottom of the sea.