Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv oblast on Thursday and blamed the Russian offensive in the region on “the world” for not sending enough weapons.
He referred to the delays in Congress passing a $61 billion Ukraine aid package, which was authorized last month. “Brigades are not totally equipped because of the package, which we waited through for eight months,” he told ABC News.
When asked if what’s happening in Kharkiv is America’s fault, Zelensky replied, “It’s the world’s fault. They gave the opportunity for Putin to occupy. But now the world can help.”
Zelensky claimed if he just had two more US-made Patriot air defense systems, Ukrainian forces would be able to hold the region. “All we need are two Patriot systems. Russia will not be able to occupy Kharkiv if we have those,” he said.
While Zelensky blamed the Russian success on weapons shortages, Ukrainian soldiers have said there were no proper fortifications despite intelligence that showed Russia was amassing troops on the border of Kharkiv.
“There was no first line of defense. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined field,” Denys Yaroslavskyi, a commander of a Ukrainian Special Reconnaissance Unit, said earlier this week. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal.”
Martina Boguslavets, a Ukrainian anti-corruption activist, wrote in Ukrainska Pravda that much of the money that was meant to be spent on building fortifications in Kharkiv was likely stolen through shell companies.
I’ve seen elsewhere photos of ranks of anti-tank “dragons teeth” which were purchased by Ukraine but never installed with Russian soldiers inspecting them. One wag called it a gift from Company X (the corrupt military contractors, whose name I don’t remember) to the Russians, who will undoubtedly put them to use elsewhere.
There were no concrete-reinforced trenches, no bunkers, no anti-tank defenses, and no minefields, even though this was an obvious path for the Russians to take and the defensive fortifications had all been ordered and paid for. That goes right along with the NATO weapons that are flooding the black market for arms.
War is wasteful. I also saw unspread out dragon’s teeth in a drone video, rendering them useless. Swords into plowshares, anyone?
Dragon’s teeth into dentures!
Company X (the corrupt military contractors, whose name I don’t remember)
My all time favorite corrupt military contractor was from the Bush W. war on Iraq era… Custer Battles was their name and how prophetic!
At least Zelensky isn’t wasting US tax dollars on new clothes.
or shoes like Imelda did.
Cocaine clown caterwauling a conniption. The blame game begins.
“You Know What Capitalism Is? Getting F***ed!”
~Tony Montana
Kudos, quite wonderful and awesomely accurate alliteration! I rarely get beyond 3 words 🙂
Corrupt Cocaine clown caterwauling a conniption. The blame game begins.
Bernie
Mr Z knows that “the World” is not at war with Russia, right? That it’s just his sad and unfortunate country that is being used by western powers as a fighting field?
… sad, unfortunate, deluded, and corrupt.
I believe the last days of Hitler, he too was also blaming the world when the Third Reich collapsed.
The world didn’t care about the child killed tomorrow night, stop thinking the world will give a damn about you.
Yes. It’s totally our fault if Ukrainian oligarchs friends of Zelensky embezzled the billions of dollars earmarked for defensive earthworks. That’s right. We should take the blame for being so naive. Or at least our inept rulers should.
The whole point of the exercise for “ our inept rulers” was the stealing …
Yes, it might be Munich 1938, as our neocons constantly tell us.
Problem, they are Hitler at Munich, the ones who attack, make promises of wanting no more, then attack again, and again. Their victims pile up. They will never stop.
We are the bad guys. Will our Resistance do any better than the German did?
“That is the question.” to quote a very germane classic.
It’s not just zelensky. Our neocon chickenhawk shill “experts” are doing the same thing, “Betray Us Petraeus” and the intoxicated, inarticulate, possible demented “General Ben Hodges” leading the charge.
Because, you see, while YES, the Ukrainians did pocket the money meant for defensive works, and left their border undefended, if WE had only provided them with nuclear weapons, and four fully equipped armored divisions, this offensive would have been defeated, and the fortifications would have been unnecessary. Therefore, Our Fault.
March 28, 2022. President Zelensky publicly declares that Ukraine is ready for neutrality combined with security guarantees as part of a peace agreement with Russia. “Security guarantees and neutrality, the non-nuclear status of our state — we’re ready to do that. That’s the most important point … they started the war because of it.”
“The world” my ass.
The man is a clown and a crack-pot. He’s a walking advertisement for Imodium.
For his verbarrhea no doubt.
What the criminal Zelensky doesn’t mention is that his collaborators have been shelling the people in the city of Belgorod for months, precisely from this area. Russia stepped in to stop the killing of civilians. They have now taken almost all the towns used by the terrorists.
Of course the Biden-loyal media won’t mention any of this.
If Biden did mention it he would say that Belgorad is located on one of the Pacific Islands, where his uncle was eaten by cannibals, so how could US-supplied munitions hurt anyone there.
One of the biggest victimhood clowns on the globe, right behind Israel.
Well the world is sick of NATO and it’s **** so I guess he has a point
On 24 May Zelensky will no longer be the elected leader of Ukraine.
Notice that Russia works withing international and domestic laws. Russia will not assassinate an elected leader of a sovereign nation.
Therefore, when Zelensky is no longer the elected leader of a sovereign nation what is his life expectancy?
An interview with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
https://tass.ru/interviews/20819137
Anyone that’s not Russian on here, or paid by the Chinese? This place is scary, can we at least add a few pacifists, Nazi’s, nihilist’s and communists to balance the dialogue? RFK? I’m not even sure what he is. I’m against senseless wars and wasted national budgets to fund a war for elitist interests too but not at the cost of a world run by Xi and Putin. If you cheer lead those clowns, seek help.
To this point, the policy of the Chinese government has shown no predisposition toward threats, sanctions, proxy wars, coups, color revolutions, unauthorized military presence in other countries, or use of NGO’s to destabilize governments.
To this point, beyond finally resorting to the use of force to oppose the imposition of foreign troops and weapons affiliated with a military organization, imposition which has been opposed without a resort to force over a period of over 30 years, Russia made the determination to use force to defend its interests as a state.
If you would like to discuss in detail the record of the US government in these categories over the past 70+ years, I’d be happy to oblige.
My advice? seek help.
Yawn..all lies. Defend itself? That’s a real stretch. Redrawing maps is no longer going to fly. It’s going to just cost blood and a lot of money. For us of course, not Sputin.
Characterizing the actions of countries in terms of their leaders is evidence of an infantile attachment to cartoons substituting as history. Time to move past cowboys and indians.
“unauthorized military presence in other countries”
They’ve had an “unauthorized military presence” in occupied Tibet for nearly 75 years now.
It’s more about accepting a world that includes those you may not like. And not desiring to kill or overthrow them for some dubious morality.
I completely agree, and I call for diplomacy. The problem is the people, don’t really have a say on who runs our government, and haven’t since at least the end of WWII. It’s a sham and diplomacy, is dead.
What kind of an idiot are you? Where does this insane hostility towards Xi and Putin come from? … that you’ve swallowed hook line and sinker?
Putin rescued Russia from the clutches of the oligarchs and the neocons, bringing it out of the depths of despair to be restored to the powerful and prosperous country it is today.
And he accomplished his rescue despite the determined effort by western forces to destroy, humiliate, and loot Russia. Simultaneous with his rescue of Russia he enabled European prosperity by selling them substantial quantities of cheap, clean natural gas via the Nordstream pipeline, a gift of mutual prosperity that Putin/Russia was about to expand by doubling the gift of cheap energy with the opening of Nordstream 2.
Instead, the Wolfowitz doctrine led the once prosperous West to the slaughter … on the altar of war, economic collapse, and cultural degeneracy.
But not Russia … and not China.
In short, Putin is the preeminent statesman on the world stage today. Would that we had such capable leadership.
And as to Xi, he is without question the preeminent technocratic leader of the modern age. The miracle wrought in China by Deng Xiaoping and Xi is of a scale and character unprecedented in the history of humanity.
But somehow, your addled brain has been filled with a lot of China- and Russia-hating nonsense. It’s not an accident and it’s not a mystery: the Western media has brainwashed you.
The good news is that a new world is emerging led by the BRICS+ and “the global south”. The Europeans will bail on the predators and join that new order, and when the US has hit rock bottom it too will shed the predators and begin again.
You aren’t worth the effort type. Good bye.
Zelensky, such an annoying little POS. He’s just like a miniature Biden, babbling inanities all day every day.
It would be so nice if he would just shut the fuck up and give the world some peace and quiet.