Zelensky: ‘We are trying to find some way not to retreat’

A less honest way of saying: "we're doing what the Nazis did in 1945"

Invent a time machine and don't let Boris Johnson scuttle the peace process.

You could just surrender lol technically it wouldn't be a retreat cause it'd be over

This is the best summary I could come up with:

After the Russian capture of Avdiivka in February, he said, “we have stabilized the situation because of smart steps by our military.” If the front remains stable, he said, Ukraine can arm and train new brigades in the rear to conduct a new counteroffensive later this year.

When I asked whether Ukraine was running short of interceptors and other air-defense weapons to protect its cities and infrastructure, he responded: “That’s true.

As Russian drones, missiles and precision bombs break through Ukrainian defenses to attack energy facilities and other essential infrastructure, Zelensky feels he has no choice but to punch back across the border — in the hope of establishing deterrence.

Zelensky argued that he could check Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid only by making Russia pay a similar price.

The lesson of war for Zelensky, after two years of brutal fighting that has killed many of the best officers and soldiers in the Ukrainian army, is that Putin should have been stopped sooner.

Nobody stopped him.” When I asked whether he would have allowed Biden to send U.S. troops into Ukraine to deter the February 2022 invasion, he said simply: “Yes.” In hindsight, that show of force might have been the only way this terrible conflict could have been averted.

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Good luck with that bud

Zelensky argued that he could check Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid only by making Russia pay a similar price. “If there is no air defense to protect our energy system, and Russians attack it, my question is: Why can’t we answer them? Their society has to learn to live without petrol, without diesel, without electricity. … It’s fair.”

This seems utterly moronic to me. Unless your strikes against energy infrastructure can dampen the war effort, it doesn't make a difference. Especially not against a country as big and industrialized as Russia. For like the past 70 years, westerners still haven't learnt that making civilians' lives harder doesn't make it easier to win wars. I don't understand where this pathological belief comes from.

Zelensky offered a chilling characterization of his adversary. “Putin is cunning, but he’s not smart,” he said. “When you fight with a smart person, it’s a fight with rules. But when you fight with a cunning person, it’s always dangerous.”

.. what?

He said critics of aid for Ukraine didn’t understand the stakes in the war. “If Ukraine falls, Putin will divide the world” into Russia’s friends and enemies, he said.

It's still insane to me that the greatest imperialists in all of human history have the gall to pretend as if it was anyone but them who mercilessly divided up the world.

Zelensky has been the X-factor in this war, mobilizing his country and much of the world to resist Russian aggression. I wish members of Congress who balk at aiding Ukraine could have listened to the Ukrainian leader talk about the price that Ukraine has paid for its defiance — and the risks ahead for the United States if it doesn’t stand with its friends.

Pure idealism. What the US ruling class will gain from a continuation from the war in Ukraine is unclear, which is why you see political bickering and the "aid" being blocked. On the other hand, the US government can eagerly send billions in aid to Israel, where it has an interest for the war to continue and you don't see the parties bicker.