Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said that he removed Gen. Valery Zaluzhny from his position as Ukrainian commander-in-chief, a move that’s expected to backfire due to the general’s popularity both within the military and among Ukraine’s civilian population.
“Starting today, a new management team will take over the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Zelensky said in his evening address on Thursday. He is replacing Zaluzhny with Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s ground forces commander, who is said to be close to the president.
Zaluzhny’s sacking was expected after Ukrainian media reported last week that he met with Zelensky on January 29 and was offered another post, but he refused to step down.
Zaluzhny has overseen the Ukrainian war effort since Russia invaded in February 2022. Zelensky said he thanked Zaluzhny for his service but that the “tasks of 2022 are different from those of 2024. Therefore, everyone must change and adapt to the new realities as well. In order to win together.”
Zaluzhny and Zelensky have long been at odds, a spat that spilled out into the public last fall when the general called the war a stalemate and said there would be no breakthrough in the counter-offensive, drawing a sharp rebuke from Zelensky.
In December, Zelensky said the military requested that 500,000 fresh troops be mobilized, but Zaluzhny denied the president’s claim. “The military command has not made a single request [to the authorities] for any figures,” he said.
Zaluzhny has been rumored to be a potential future presidential candidate if Zelensky allows elections to happen. The general has never announced that he plans to enter politics, but polling has shown the Ukrainian public trusts Zaluzhny significantly more than Zelensky, making him a real political threat.
The firing comes as Ukraine is on the verge of losing Avdiivka, a city in Donetsk that’s been key to the Ukrainian war effort since fighting broke out in the Donbas in 2014.
When rumors of Zaluzhny’s firing first surfaced, a Ukrainian battalion commander expressed dismay about the possibility in comments to The Washington Post. “My personal opinion is you can’t do something like this right now — Zaluzhny is someone 80 percent of the military considers a good authority,” the battalion commander said.
The commander added that nobody in the military likes Zaluzhny’s replacement. “For what is he being removed? It’s not clear. And who will replace him? Syrskyi? God, I hope not. No one in the army likes Syrsky,” he said. “This is a catastrophic step. When this becomes official, we’re screwed. The morale of both the military and society will go way down.”
Military coup?
Hard to tell where the chips will fall, but Zelensky’s days as President of Ukraine are numbered.
I think Nuland still has his back.
I agree, but at some point Nuland will be irrelevant.
When? She has been passed along in administrations of both parties like a war hooker until she reached the level of pimp.
Ha! No I mean irrelevant in Ukraine. At some point things will start to spiral in Ukraine and there will be nothing any imperial apparatchik will be able to do to stop the fail cascade.
That’s true, Frank, but defying the hegemon means risking loss of funding, so it has to be done carefully to minimize the possibly-ensuing disaster.
If I were Zaluzhny and the potential coup plotters, I’d be calling Sergei Lavrov. A long-term deal with Russia is a way better prospect for Ukraine than any deal it can get from US-NATO, and that ought to be easy to understand by now.
At some point, hmm.
It has been two years and the Russian sh!t army isn’t getting any better.
Oh, but we’ll wait for the upcoming spiral in Ukraine.
The end of Ukraine is coming and Jesus is coming too.
I honestly wonder what people like you will do when the war is finally over and Ukraine has ceded territory? Will you slither away never to be heard from again (we can only hope), or you will up the delusion to claim that Ukraine actually won?
I’d probably go back to finish high school if my brain permits then begin mass production of a home ski simulator I patented.
Or just be a TIK TOK MOTHAFUCKA!
What would happen to you if Russia ends up worse off? Hmm, you’d probably be on the run with the rest of your delusional team of trolls.
I think you have all of your eggs in one basket hoping for Russia to crush Ukraine. You already wrote Ukraine off and that’s the bias in you that’s stressing you out.
It’s not easy to be a Putin Lover these days.
That Tucker interview was an abortion.
I would admit I was wrong in my assumptions about the balance of power in the war.
Di you see her on the recent trip to Kiev, speaking to an empty Maidan, at night, with no Ukrainian bigwigs anywhere in sight?
There was a photo of her hugging some woman. I forget who.
This is totally unrelated, but I woke up from a nightmare where I was in charge of applying lipstick on a pig. Everyone was freaking out when we realized it was a war pig! We can’t put enough lipstick on a war pig! …Anyone here knows how to explain dreams??
Nuland is only relevant to you b!tches.
No one in Washington talks about them but you dumbasses here.
You’re the bitch. Specifically, you’re Putin’s little bitch.
No, You are, little b!tch, I criticize him, you support and cheerlead him.
Nope. You keep saying that I support and cheerlead, but consistently fail to provide examples. Fail troll is fail. You are the one who consistently brings him up and obsesses about him. He’s in your head and has you all hot and bothered. Like I said you are his little bitch.
I don’t have to provide examples. I have read your comments since you started posting here.
You are just delusional. You deny your own positions.
The best example is you coming after me, after Rational Thinker and the couple other folks here that support Ukraine and are not anti US.
Not hard to see, Albert Shitstein. Lol
Another baseless comment.
Pure display of Russian propaganda.
Zelensky isn’t going anywhere, dck head.
You’ll be saying that year after year hoping it’ll happen.
You were hoping Zaluzhny would March his forces to Kiyv just like Prigozhin. Lol
Putin will probably be out before Zelensky, oh no, Putin is a dictator, my bad.
Year after year? I’ve only been saying it for the last few months. I may be wrong about it, but I think at some point Zelensky will be deposed.
You mean like Saddam Hessein, Khadafi, Noriega, etc, etc, etc….!
Not exactly, I can see an internal coup happening that is not directed from Washington. I think that at some point the non-banderite faction of the Ukrainian military and political establishment will remove him and attempt negotiations with Russia. The military variable of the equation is important as any political opposition would need the backing of the military. While I think this is where things are heading, I do have significant uncertainty because I have a poor understanding of what fraction of the upper leadership of the Ukrainian military are hardcore banderites.
Edit: As Brian Bixby notes below another alternative is that the banderites themselves might remove him and replace him with Zaluzhny putting one of their own in the driver’s seat.
That’s the Putin lover guy speaking.
Same guy that claims he is not pro Russia, nor anti Ukraine and definitely not anti US
But let’s read his comment again.
BtW, most of his comments are highly similar.
Speaking of banderites and neo nazis; didnt Russia release yesterday over 100 Ukrainian POWs? Probably the same POWs that survived the plane shot down in Russia carrying Ukrainian POWs couple weeks ago.
Yeah, weren’t most of those POW neo nazis and banderites from Mariupol?
Hmm, so much for the denazification objectives of the SMO.
Dude, YOU are a sworn Putin lover. Read your own fcking comments. If you cannot comprehend that, i may be brain damage but you are just straight up RETARDED.
Drunker than a skunk I see.
Better be drunk and dumb.
Reading incomprehension.
Are you near burn pits? I know Russia is out of heating but dont be burning plastic indoor. Not good for your brain. It’s ok. You’ll get better
Lol.
I can edit my comments as well, but I won’t because I could care less.
You could care less?
That means you care. then.
Likely, especially since Zaluzhny is buddy-buddy with the neo-N@z* militias. Just last week he was posing for selfies with the heads of Right Sector and [Svoboda? Azov? can’t remember which], and he’s spoken at their meetings. I’ve read that he was largely responsible for the inclusion of the militias into the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2018, but don’t know how reliable that is.
He was/is a Banderite. But they were who fought Russians as paid for by the oligarch, then trained in the US by the CIA and by NATO in Ukraine. So in that sense, they were the most willing combatants and “best” soldiers.
Zaluzhny is respected by more than the military because he seemed less willing to sacrifice lives v Zelensky’s fight to the last Ukrainian.
He was involved in peace talks with his Russian counterpart and I think helped orchestrate the POW exchange. He is a mixed bag.
There was a German think tank that came up with the integration in the military, naively asserting it would wash away far right ideology. I no longer have that link, unfortunately.
He’s got Vicky Nuland in his corner.
What else do you need to know know?
He’s got Sullivan too and john Griffin.
Sure but did they fly over there to huddle with the hapless Zelenski?
Do either of them have the name recognition or track record of direct involvement in the abortion called US Foreign Policy?
Hopefully it’s the beginning off the end for the clown zelensky.
Yes, that will backfire big time. You can ask Putin. He knows a lot about Firing Ukraine war Generals.
How many Generals has Putin fired? Hmm, a lot. Hence Putin’s personal war in Ukraine has backfired exponentially.
Your tears provide me sustenance. Moar pleaze.
Interesting! According to you, I’m a Veteran with low IQ and brain damage due to burn pits exposure however, you seem to care enough to counter everyone of my comments with your Putin love.
Shouldn’t you ignore me because I have brain damage?
You are a very confused guy, cannot help you.
Lol, fcking loser.
And Putin lover.
It’s almost like you want me to put you on ignore. Probably because I own your stupid ass in every thread I see you participating in. I suggest you buck up.
Haha, the brain dead Veteran is keeping you awake at night. Lol
You won’t ignore me? Hmm
That’s cause you are obsessed with me. You need me on this blog. I make your day, you just like Wars. That dishonest idiot would come to antiwar just looking for argument with me.
It’s your own contradiction.
Really goes to show you are confused.
I’ll put YOU on ignore once I get tired of your repeated trash. And I’m getting there.
You are a phony.
Keep me up at night? Don’t make me part of your perverted Putin fantasies.
That’s you, you are the Putin lover. Don’t try to flip it, too late for that, fluffier.
Your BS has been exposed.
I’m just a vet with brain damage.
What BS? All of your comments are so vague. Can you ever be specific? I guess not as you now admit you are “just a vet with brain damage.” Brain fog is hard to work through.
Dude, you are obsessed with getting my attention.
You cannot ignore this brain dead, low IQ vet. Lol
Be more specific, what? You want to have a normal dialog now? GTFOH. I’m brain dead, dude.
You started this sh!t so now deal with it.
I’m not here to hold your fcking hand.
Move on if you can’t figure it out.
The Lack of eggs and firewood in Russia is affecting you.
So no you can’t provide one speck of evidence to back up any of your claims?
You’re on to it now, Rizzo The Rat.
Young Donald Julio will rant and rave and “Putin (verb) (noun)” for days without noticing anything you say – UNTIL you a) repeatedly demand evidence for his lunatic assertions, and b) go meta, looking past his angry one-liner nonsense and call him out on the basis of his arguments, the psychology beneath.
Keep hammering him on evidence & his lack of it; how claims and assertions are not evidence; and how he’s a relic of Cold War One just butthurt and sad that his When America Was Great USA didn’t stand over a cold dead corpse of the USSR but instead, the Russians just stopped playing & history doesn’t chalk up an Undisputed Win to Julio’s phantasy ‘Muirca.
He can’t stand introspection or analysis of his flaws. You want him to Block you, run away and crow to everyone else he’s “essential here”, keep on your course, my friend !!!
If you have time to waste, do a deep-dive on my Comment history with Donald & see how I kept him filling his own diapers with rage (and alt-Right poop) until he ran away.
My method is open-source & public domain; borrow to thine heart’s content.
Or just mention his previous love affair with Putin. That really pisses him off. Especially since he was in the US military at the time of that love affair with Putin.
I mean, I’m not inclined to indict someone who changed their mind when new evidence came available. Particularly Donald, because in his case it suggests Once Upon A Time, evidence and critical analysis actually MATTERED to him.
Now I think he just wants to believe his own version of reality, absent any evidence and despite ALL the evidence. He’s the sort that seems to think that if you just wish, want, and believe hard enough, the Universe alters reality to suit him.
I don’t normally indict anyone for changing their mind either. But after every comment towards me contained “Putin lover”, I couldn’t help myself. Even when I told him to seek out one comment I made where I even remotely praised Putin. Of course, he couldn’t but the “Putin lover” accusations continued ad nauseum.
Oh, you asked for a direct citation ? He’ll Block you for SURE now…! “The NERVE of Wars Russ wanting evidence.”
As if any evidence you’ve ever provided had any validity. Lol.
I would have to give one f about your stupid dumbass for me to go out of my happy way to search for evidence to satisfy some idiot full of sh!t who no matter what i present, will discredit it.
So no, no time for stupid ass.
Got it. You just spew BS all day long with no sources or evidence to back you up. Your claims that I am a “Putin lover” remain unsubstantiated given you can’t produce a single comment of mine supporting him and/or Russian in any way. Until you can produce evidence no one will believe anything you say.
ALL of your comments are bulls**t and you refuse to acknowedge sources that YOU don’t like (NEOCON WESTERN PROPAGANDA!!!!!)
You spew garbage that you can never support. That doesn’t necessarily make you a “Putin lover” but it does make you a useful idiot for Putin.
I accept plenty of sources I don’t like. I accept The NYT, NPR, The Washington Post, FoxNews, MSNBC, ect. ect. I do not accept pure neocon propaganda outfits like The Institute For the Study of War or unverified shit sources like twitter or telegram. So wrong again.
Any source that doesn’t support your cognitive dissonance.
No there are plenty of sources that I would accept that I don’t necessarily agree with if they are reporting straight news and not propaganda puff pieces like sources I listed above which span most of the overton window. So, like usual, you are living in a delusion of your own making.
Pray tell what is my cognitive dissonance?
Try this: who is currently winning the war and why do you believe that?
I think Russia is slightly winning at the moment with their advantage only growing as time goes on. Ukraine has gone through three armies at this point. They are now getting set to raise a fourth. I don’t need to go to any alternative media to ascertain these assertions as they are being printed on the pages of the NYT and other major establishment mouthpieces. How many do you want me to link?
Link to as many as you want. I’ll ask if they are opinion pieces or they back up their points with numbers and — especially — current maps.
I’m willing to bet they are opinion pieces. If that’s the case, you’ll have to do better. (And if you base your assumptions on opinion pieces, I’ll reiterate your suffer from cognitive dissonance.)
Neither of us has access to accurate statistics for the war. You think that because you read twitter and follow geolocating mappers that you have some special knowledge about what is going on in Ukraine? You’re a loon and a victim of propaganda. My assertions are based on initial conditions and the corpus of military affairs literature on attrition warfare. Let’s take the recent counteroffensive. Whose assertions turned out to be more accurate yours or mine? If one goes back through your comments it is easy to see the quality of your “information.” You were predicting “thunder runs to Crimea” based on twitter posts. My point about linking to prominent establishment media sources is that even they are now confirming what many here have been saying for months, i.e. that Ukraine is losing the war of attrition. The only reason that they are now reporting negative information about Ukraine is that the “general consensus” in Washington has shifted. Even neocon outlets are now admitting that Ukraine will likely have to cede some territory in a peace deal which was unthinkable and equal to Russian disinformation a few short months ago.
You out yourself on a regular basis. You attempt to come accross like an expert referring to the “ corpus of military affairs literature”. That esoteric approach may keep some from calling you out on it. It won’t work with me. An academic approach identifies you as a true tankie and continuously focusing on my comment about a “thunder run” is an attempt at verbal jujitsu that also will be ineffective in putting me off-balance.
Maps are one tool to use in showing progress in warfare. Sattelite images show the real atttrition warfare. Your problem is that those things mess with your vision of tho war. You can’t see the forest through the trees. But you keep trying! I’ll be here.
Academic literature is peer reviewed by domain experts and therefore as verified as something can be (and also open to challenge by further publications). This is how consensus is formed by back and forth in the primary literature. Your rejection of it shows that you are not a serious commentator, but a propagandist.
Show us your sources then. You claim this amazing granular view of how the war is progressing, but never link any sources. You claim this is because no one will “accept your sources.” That’s a cop out and shows that you are a major league bull shitter. Show your sources or STFU. Got it sporto?
He doesn’t have to STFU any more than you do.
And the open-minded will include his unwillingness or inability to cite sources as a factor in judging the value of his claims.
Your argument is about academics talking to each other about warfare. That won’t cut it in the real world.
I’ve posted my sources in the past and you refuse to accept them. (I won’t do it again.) I’m not writing a college paper.
You have no idea what your talking about because you use sources that theorize about war. They do not review the many sources available that show the current situation. (That then confuses you about what’s actually going on.)
I hope that helped.
Once you linked to the institute for the study of war and I correctly labeled it as a neocon propaganda outfit. You do have more sources than that website, correct? If that is your only source you confirm for everyone here (once again) that you are nothing more than a neocon propaganda shill.
“That won’t cut it in the real world.”
The internet is not the real world. You are not on the ground and have no idea what is going on in Ukraine. You want us to believe that you are some kind of military affairs professional who has access to the hard data. You’re not. You’re just some schlub with an internet connection. Pull you head out of you ass.
Awww. It sounds like I’ve gotten to you.
Just know: you’re full of s**t and you try to talk like an academic but you’re just a person here trying to sound smart. You fail but keep trying. Refer to some obscure “papers” and publications and someone might believe you. Go outside. Try to enjoy the day. Maybe don’t sound like you lead a sad life. (Free advice there for you!)
Provide some sources brosef. I’ve got your number and you’re trying to distract with a bunch low tier trolling tactics. Just admit it your primary sources for your “information” are twitter and the ISW.
Protip: open source intelligence isn’t intelligence it’s propaganda. I highly doubt you have the skillset needed to parse any open source intelligence outlet’s data hygiene. That is if they even provide you with the raw data sets.
ISW is Neocon to you because they don’t tell you what you want to hear, you know, the good news about Russia in Ukraine.
But give them time, if you are right about situation on the ground becoming very bad for Ukraine soon, then we shall get that from ISW.
ISW is neocon because it was founded by and is run by neocons you ignorant fascist fuck.
~Neither of us has access to accurate statistics for the war.~
Then you should stop there and refrain from pretending you are the expert that’s always right and everyone else wrong, dipsh!t.
Compared to the two of you I’m a regular Albert Einstein.
Jeffrey Epstein, maybe. Lol.
And a regular fascist Putin Lover scum.
Russia is slightly?
Slightly, that’s like admitting defeat. What an embarrassment. That army is so incompetent and inept.
Russia is slightly winning against Ukraine? Lol. Sounds like Ukraine is now a super power. Lol.
Three armies?
The F you talking about?
It’s just 15 Ukrainians holding the entire frontline against the “second strongest” army in the world.
Hey dipsh!t, how is your battle for Krinky going?
Dude you suck, you have issues.
Your insecurity level is high.
Yes, slightly. Do you have a problem with your eyesight? LOL you be trollin’ hardcore. I suggest you lay off the sauce.
The article you are commenting on is about the president of Ukraine removing his top general in a time of war. Does that signify that things are going well for Ukraine?
It signifies a need for a change in strategy. I believe it was Zaluzhny being too cautious. The story is he was stockpiling the Weatern gear instead of initiating attacks on weak Russian defenses. We’ll see what happens.
BTW, how many generals has Putin replaced again? (Does that mean they are doing well?)
If you have a winning strategy, you don’t change generals. We all know the real story, he said the “S”(stalemate) word out loud. And when Putin had his “mutiny” to contend with, I would assume things were going poorly for Russia also. But we’re talking about now.
I think that’s part of it. I think that stalemate was Zaluzhny‘a strategy and that didn’t fly with leadership (and Western allies).
We all exhibit Confirmation Bias.
You do accept RT news and TASS though.
No. I never read them or link to them.
dude. are you spreading some kind of Putin-Love ?
LOL man what is wrong with you …
hey, agent Julio’s job is to get your goat.
don’t let him get your goat.
All is tranquilo. After witnessing months of non stop abuse by DJ of members of the Antiwar community I decided that I would give him back the same kind of treatment. If he wants to troll then I say bring it. The difference between me and him (besides the fact that he is a hard core neocon fascist) is that I typically try to provide evidence backing up what I say. All in all it’s cheap entertainment watching him haplessly try and troll and then raging when people call him on his BS.
“Non stop abuse”. Hahaha
Did I abuse you?
Wow.
Bruh, sorry, dont cry, i didn’t mean to abuse you and hurt your feelings.
But you started this sh!t. You fired first.
You started the name calling, you insulted me first.
Im having a beer now.
What are you doing, posting on multiple blogs pretending to be American?
I’ll try to not abuse you so much.
Actually I was having a nice dinner at a local Italian restaurant with my family. It was fun as we met another family there and the kids had a blast. We talked about what types of local events we could set up for RFK, Jr. A very fun and productive evening. By the incoherence of your comments it looks like you didn’t do much besides drink yourself into a stupor.
You had dinner with family and decided to talk about politics about RFK jr? Great family values.
I feel sorry for your family. Great talk. Your family must have been on their phones. Lol
Are you setting up a campaign shop in Moscow for RFK? Hmm, good luck with that.
The adults had their own table and we were organizing for RFK, Jr. I understand that in your depraved neocon worldview the people organizing against you fascist scum is what you fear most. Tik tock motherfucker.
So even worse, you take you family to dinner then sit them in a separate table so you can talk RFK jr wish dreams? All in Moscow?
Again, good luck with that.
Yes, I’m a Tik Tok MothaFucka!!!!!
Remember that.
I see you don’t have kids. Of course you don’t, no one would ever mate with an abusive alcoholic like you. With the way you treat strangers on the internet, I can only imagine how you would treat a partner of the opposite sex. You live a sad existence. Fantasizing about Putin after a night of hard drinking and waking up feeling self revulsion that compels you to lash online about the object of your desire. Like I’ve suggested many times I think you need to get some professional help.
Albert Shitstein, now you are straight up ignorant.
Whatever you say, dipsh!t.
Were you crying while typing. Have I treated you harshly? Aww.
Well, remember this…
IM A TIK TOK MOTHAFUCKA!!
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I rejoice that this infantile exchange of insults has ended. No one can really predict with absolute certainty what this action will bring other than unintended consequences, as always.
I got him good, didn’t i.?
Even with my brain damage due to exposure to burn pits, i’ve had him working 3 shifts.
There you go again. Name calling. The last resort of the person with no intelligent retort.
ask yourself, who started the name calling and insults.
Perhaps, go back on archives and research.
What did you say? Can you repeat that?
Basically, you and your other personalities, Tim Burton and jake crave the attention. Well, you got it. For the wrong reasons.
That’s fine. It doesn’t affect my life. Im only here to support Ukraine and protest Putin’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine oh and call out your hypocrisy.
You phonies can troll all you want, im still enjoying my beer at the end of the day.
Oh and yes, i am tim, Wars, Donna V, and many others.
It’s what i do and i get paid very well for it. Get to work remotely too.
Do you need a job as a multi troll? I know Russia aint paying salaries these days but send me your resume and we’ll be in touch.
You have to be a US citizen though. Hope you can provide valid proof.
“Im only here to support Ukraine and protest Putin’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine”
So you admit you are a propaganda troll?
“Tim Burton” who is he? Is he taking my place in the Holy Trinity of commenters?
From Telegram:
🇺🇸🙅♂️ WHITE HOUSE WARNS AMERICANS NOT TO WATCH TUCKER-PUTIN INTERVIEW: John “I hate peace” Kirby reveals Washington’s fretting over upcoming bombshell interview with Russian leader.
Apparently
Americans shouldn’t take what Putin says “at face value” (00:44) or
support for Ukraine could be undermined and BILLIONS of dollars might
stop being pumped into Kiev regime.
🥺Handy Kirby translation: “Pretty please don’t listen to Putin, only listen to us, we never lie…”
Are you guys sure you want to talk about Tucker’s interview!
https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1755917710557397315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1755917710557397315%7Ctwgr%5Ed0351a62035ea7a9819e39d7f1f48fb225719347%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F2024%2F2%2F9%2F2222387%2F-Tucker-Carlson-interviewed-Putin-and-boy-did-that-go-off-the-rails-fast
That was a horrible interview.
Tucker did Putin a great disservice.
And towards the end Putin used the word WAR to characterize his actions in Ukraine.
Any other citizen would’ve been arrested for that.
Agreed! But I DID learn it was Poland’s fault WWII started. They forced Hitler to invade their country! (I wonder how the Poles feel about that!?!) It was a VERY convenient re-write of history by Putin.
The more you know history the more you support Putin.
We know you are a Putin’s war supporter.
Yeah, The more you know the history he is telling you.
His manipulation of history is only believed by his supporters.
Don’t you know that Poland together with Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938?
They didn’t really. They annexed a small portion of Czechoslovakia with a large Polish minority so it would not be seized by the Germans. You can absolutely argue this was opportunistic or wrong, but the Polish annexation did nothing to hasten the German annexation and it was not their intention to aid the Germans.
Plus, how much of that belongs to Poland or Germany today?
Partition of Czechoslovakia is good, partition of Poland is bad?
Then why don’t you insist that western Ukrainian regions, including, of course Lvov, must be returned to Poland?
Neither partition is good.
And the Soviet Union was a full German partner in the partition of Poland.
Did I say I support that annexation?
Read what I stated.
I don’t support any country annexing land from any country.
There are peaceful processes.
How far back should we go to rearrange borders?
There have been international agreements with signatories (Budapest Agreement?).
If people like Putin suddenly decides to ignore those agreements because of political coup, his own version history, and other made up excuses, then other countries should do the same. Germany needs to reclaim Kaliningrad, China reclaim its Manchuria region from Russia, etc.
I have to admit, now that the government doesn’t want me to see it I have to lol.
I think racist critical stinker is full of it. I dont believe Kirby said that.
Regardless, i watched it and it doesn’t look like it had the desired outcome. In fact, i would ‘ve advised against Putin doing that interview if i was his advisor. IMO, bad interview for Putin.
For every firing of a war General, they become tomorrow’s opposition.
Russia is in trouble then.
Was Lincoln in trouble?
I dont know, Is Putin in trouble?
You can fill a library on what you don’t know.
That’s a true statement on every human being on earth, genius.
Sure but you ain’t human.
Hmm, I’d take that as a compliment.
Im flattered so Thanks.
Even upvoted you.
I’m sure humanity feels the same.
I meant the Ukrainians generals, my slow witted friend.
The analyzer failed to figure out his own analysis.
So your statement is only true for the firing of Ukrainians generals?
Not the sharpest knife in the kitchen, are you?
Zelensky is brilliant. It’s a simple and effective move. The Titanic could have been saved if its deck chairs were rearranged after it hit the colossal iceberg.
Hitting nail on head. Good one.
Zelensky does care only about his own arse. Titanic may go where it belongs.
No dipsh!t, that’s Putin you are talking about.
As if Russia hasn’t fired dozens of its Generals.
Aren’t they at war with each other? Sometimes even having shoutouts?
Yes, Russia certainly has rearranged its chairs. Lol
Reminiscent of Hitler firing generals in 1945 and replacing them with NAZI sycophants, who will tell him what he wants to hear. I wonder if he is even aware of how bad things on the ground at Avdiivka, and Marinka, and Kupiansk, and Krynky, among other places, are actually becoming?
When the last Ukrainian Soldier falls the war will end with Putin the winner something the Americas / Brits fear so they will push the idiot Zelensky to carry on fighting until the last man does falls .
Putin is already a loser.
What’s his KIA count? 350K. Over 22 Generals killed.
No air superiority, a weak Navy unable to operate in the Black Sea
Cannot even take Kinky defended by 15 Ukrainian soldiers.
But Yes, one day Putin will take Kyiv in 3 days. Lol
Zelensky is defending his country and you are cheerleading the guy who invaded his country.
A truly antiwar activist. Lol
“Zaluzhny has been rumored to be a potential future presidential candidate if Zelensky allows elections to happen…”
There’s your motivation right there.
Looks like the Neo-Cons will continue to sacrifice Ukrainians to “weaken Russia”, but for how long?
https://ukraine-kartell.net/?ref=1023&cn=sidebar
It is a book written by a reputable German journalist living in Russia.
It is in German and can be ordered by the publisher.
As if that’s gonna make any difference…!
Gen. Zaluzhny is probably a man seasoned and wisened by leading men in war and losing. In short he might have been someone with whom Putin could have negotiated the wrap-up and sequelae; not a subserviant to the NAZIs or Neoconia. And that could explain Nuland’s ordering Zelinsky to ditch him.
So that was Victoria Nuland’s order to Zelensky when she recently visited.
Indeed.
Soon you’ll see Victoria Nulands’s orders to Putin.
Big changes are coming to the Kremlin.
And Sullivan is in on it too. 🤷🏽♂️
Heaven helps us.
I believe she was there to get Zuluzhny in line. Notice he was removed shortly after her visit after refusing to resign.
Liar. Where’s your evidence?
By evidence I mean, real fcking evidence, not your anti US sources.
In this case the evidence is the timing, and what happened after she left the country.
Notice you said:
“I believe she was there to get Zuluzhny in line.”
You believe? WFT? Is your evidence based on belief?
In this case, timing is not evidence, you dumbass.
That sh!t might work in your Russian corrupted legal system.
No wonder why your views are so F up.
Yes humans can have beliefs based on circumstantial evidence. I understand why something so basic would be hard for an imbecilic clown like yourself to understand.
“Zelensky…thanked Zaluzhny for his service but [said] the ‘tasks of 2022 are different from those of 2024. Therefore, everyone must change and adapt to the new realities as well. In order to win together.‘”
Floored…floored with mouth hanging open – make room on the wall, Gettysburg Address and Nelson Mandela’s ‘I am prepared to die’ speech…& in defeat, throw away your quill and ‘Ain’t I a Woman’ scribbles, Sojourner Truth.
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On a side note what’s with all these names that start with V or a Z? I imagine they have more than two letters in their alphabet.
At this point in the war, I think all the A-to-U Ukrainians have been killed. Leaving only the V, W, X, Y, Z citizens, the 0-9’s and the ASCII ones.
It will make little difference; the war is essentially lost, as Ukraine’s offensive capability is shot. Russia may not take much more (although they seem to be gaining ground, incrementally, all along the front) but what they have I expect they’ll keep; only question is how many more Ukrainians have to die, how many more need to emigrate, how much more of their infrastructure needs to be wrecked, and how many more of my tax dollars do their leaders get to steal before they wake up to reality?
And how many more Russians will also die?
Them too; but the killing will stop when Ukraine agrees to negotiate. So it’s in Ukraine’s hands.