Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he considers freezing military operations along the current front line and shifting the conflict to the diplomatic track a realistic way to end the war.
He made the remarks in a special interview with U.S. television network Fox News, Operative Information Center-OMM reports, citing the broadcaster.
Asked whether Kyiv would accept a peace deal that froze the conflict along the current line of contact while leaving more than three-quarters of Ukraine’s territory under its control, Zelensky replied:
“Yes. If we have to freeze military operations right now, I think this is the most realistic way to end the war,” the Ukrainian leader said.
I think it’s mostly economics related. As long as Europe is richer, many Ukrainians want to stick on the European side. But we’ve already seen that the power dynamic is shifting massively, and Europe is wasting all their money gearing up for war. Who knows what the future will bring though. A massive economic bubble is looming and I expect Europe to become much more aggressive around 2030 after their arsenal is built up
Undoubtedly, that’s why sanctions work, but they let their oligarchs keep control despite the economic disaster of the post-1991 “experiment”, and that’s partly because of propaganda ; they also considered that there was no viable economic model to their East despite China’s rise, and that’s also partly because of capitalist-induced propaganda.
Their institutions right down to even their statistical institutes were already controlled by the west before 2014, and almost each of their minister of Culture came from western Ukraine(, excepting Ivan Dziouba and Iouri Bohoutsky), among dozens of other things, without counting western lies(, one out of so many, e.g.).
So while socio-economics clearly are the main driver behind leader&population decisions(, it’s not straightforward, the quick catch-up after the 90s curve is less surprising than a country (re)starting from zero like the PRC or african countries, i also have many doubts on the pertinence of the GDP), i’ll still continue to accuse propaganda when it affirms that there is no alternative 🤷.
That said, fighting the Empire means that your population will suffer for your idea(l)s, no doubt that Ukraine would be sanctioned for joining the Russian Federation, and develop perhaps even worse economic difficulties than until now. Russia knows that, and won’t promise them an economic miracle if ukrainians (re)join them.
Well, who knows, but we may apparently not wait for the midterms before “liberating” iranian women from anti-zionism(, if not this year then afterwards) :
Fuck the US, n°1 terrorist state on Earth, as per usual.