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Zelensky: ‘We are trying to find some way not to retreat’
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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The USA instructed them to stop attacking Russian oil refineries because it was fucking with the price of oil in an election year.
In effect, they’re telling the US they will fuck with the pump price of gas if they don’t get a more bombs.
Yeah in the abstract it makes sense but it is in the context of demanding ammunition for front line needs, so posing these secondary and tertiary targets as a “supply us or else we will do this” pretty much reveals the game.
In the context of begging for weapons to stabilize a collapsing front line, then prioritizing secondary targets like airfields and tertiary targets like oil refineries doesn’t actually make much sense.
It reminds me of the Germans investing massive resources to the V2 rocket program to strike London. At face value it might seem impressive to be able to strike your enemy’s capital but when you look at the competing strategic concerns Germany was facing at the time, you quickly realize it was a move of desperate impotency.
For Ukraine to pose this as an “or else” to the west like this makes it clear to me they’re playing a kind of brinksmanship.
Supply us or else we will seek to drag you into this anyway. Supply us or else we escalate the war with Russia at a point when we are already losing. Supply us or else we make it untenable for Russia to have a negotiated peace, making this a war of annihilation - meaning you will have to deal with the prospect of Kyiv and Lviv eventually being occupied. Supply us or else we will maximize the cost of Ukraine losing this war and make you pick up the tab.
Supply us or else we will continue targeting strategically close-to-meaningless oil refineries for the sole effect of jacking the price of oil for you.
It’s all about Ukraine seeking to desperately avert impending military collapse and seeking to avert it by maximizing the cost of that failure to the west.
Ukraine is seeking to change the calculus: Supply us with your weapons or will make sure you have to use them anyway, so your cost-benefit analysis will force you to give them to us now.
Brinksmanship played against their benefactors. Something something biting the hand because it stopped feeding you.
So now Ukraine is threatening to interfere with the election to tip it against Biden and in favor of dRumpf! Russia has already won! /lib
What an incredible strategy, though. "If you cut off your support for us, we will launch a massive hail marry in an attempt to get Russia to initiate MAD and kill the entire world including you."
Zelensky threatening to reveal his Final Form now that you've defeated him three times already
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
He really was a stand-up comedian, huh?
He's certainly method acting being one
Zelensky did called for preemptive nuclear strike on Russia, but liberal media shushed that one successfully. He also appeared particularly stoned in that video, so afaik he never repeated that publicly after.
It sure is a mystery why the mad coke dictator of Ukraine keeps threatening to end the world!
Weird ultimatum. I'm sure Congress is quaking in its boots.