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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The “Victory Plan” presented by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is an acknowledgment of capitulation because it is obvious that, even in his estimation, without the massive involvement of NATO countries in the conflict, the Ukrainian army will not be able to hold back Russian forces in the foreseeable future.
Zelensky presented his Victory Plan to the Ukrainian parliament on October 16 and the European Council on October 17. The plan consists of five points and three secret amendments. In addition to admitting defeat, Zelensky’s Victory Plan also reveals a desire for maximum escalation of the conflict, where, of course, the main burden should be borne on NATO countries and not Ukrainian forces.
The Ukrainian president thinks that escalating what led to the suffering of his citizens and destroyed the economy will lead to Ukraine’s victory.
At the same time, his Victory Plan could be used to pressure Biden or his successor to make decisions about striking deep into the Russian Federation without, supposedly, provoking Moscow to react excessively. Nonetheless, the Kremlin has already said Russia will respond to any attacks.
The Victory Plan truly hinges on US support and not European. Therefore, bodies such as the Council of Europe only serve to give the Biden administration legitimacy when he puts pressure on some parts of the American establishment that are clearly resisting further support for Ukraine.
The first point of Zelensky’s Victory Plan is geopolitical and concerns Ukraine’s immediate invitation to NATO. The other points concern the Ukrainian military and its allies destroying Russia’s aviation, deploying a non-nuclear strategic containment package on its territory, strengthening sanctions on Russia, and allowing Ukrainian soldiers to replace part of the American contingent in Europe in the post-war period.
According to the latest available data, 84% of Ukrainians want their country to be a member of NATO. Despite the widespread support for joining the alliance and although NATO has declared Ukraine’s membership path irreversible, it cannot be completed during the war, and the alliance declined to put a timeline. In effect, NATO has categorically ruled out membership until the war is over, which already makes Zelensky’s Victory Plan detached from reality since the very first point of the plan to defeat Russia is to join the bloc.
For this reason, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova condemned Zelensky’s Victory Plan as nothing more than a collection of “incoherent slogans.”
“This is, of course, no plan at all. It is a collection of incoherent slogans. It is blood foam at the mouth of a neo-Nazi murderer,” the spokeswoman stated during a briefing on October 16.
She also criticised Zelensky’s intention to damage the Russian air force with the assistance of his allies, saying, “He is pushing NATO to a direct conflict with our country and again insists on getting permission to use long-range weapons on Russian territory, knowing perfectly well, at least those who wrote him these speeches, realised what it would lead to because the corresponding statements by the Russian leadership were made just a week ago.”
“Taken as a sum, all these points and secret sub-clauses are not Zelensky’s plan of victory but a plan to bring misfortune upon Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. This aims to keep the money flowing and present his terrorist capabilities. I think that today Zelensky definitively proved to everyone that he hates Ukrainians to the extent that can be characterised as Ukrainophobia,” Zakharova added.
Since Zelensky evidently does not have any plans to begin serious negotiations, as seen by his Victory Plan, any negotiations conducted in the short term can be used by the West and the Kiev regime to freeze the conflict in Ukraine, replenish their capabilities and launch new attacks against Russia.
According to Western media, including The Washington Post, Zelensky has shown himself more open to holding talks with Russia amid Ukraine’s weakening positions. At the same time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that no adequate proposals had yet been received regarding the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, apart from the hype in the Western media.
Zelensky’s masters in the West are beginning to see that they are not able to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and are beginning to ask for negotiations. For the moment, they are resorting to negotiation chatter, as mentioned, to try to freeze the conflict and build up forces. In this context, the only way to end the conflict is the complete defeat of Ukraine, peace on Moscow’s terms, and the strategic retreat of the West from Russia’s borders.
The Victory Plan has certainly dominated headlines and occupied the attention of many world leaders, but Kiev has no way of enforcing it, especially since, from the very first point, it ensures failure, considering NATO has been very clear on Ukraine’s membership path, which cannot progress until the war is already over.
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existential conundrums find you far more boring.
hillbilly anon bored–cannot pay hillbilly lgbt enough shekels for sodomy
he needs to formally and unconditionally surrender himself and the rest of his army to russian authorities.
he needs to invent a time machine, go back to jan, 2014 and run through maidan like paul revere, screaming ‘ukraine’s nazis are coming, ukraine’s nazis are coming!’
furthermore there will be no lasting peace without odessa and kharkiv back in russia
he can’t. his script demands that he has to keep going until there are no ukrainian citizens left to feed into the meat grinder. who wants to make ukraine their number 2 land, now that they have outstayed their time in the me?
putin’s new strategy for ukraine: escalatory capitulation
with the corps of over 800,000 of his own citizens under belt, he’s repeating his last stunt: moving the focus to another scene. kursk was a misery but now it’s him, who’s getting his deserved share and not from the russians or nato…no… his own people will seek a special conversation.
g7, dedicated to defence, with ukraine part of the group of hasbeens. meanwhile, russia is holding the brics summit, where the intelligent leaders go, in a few days. ukraine, were denied entry into nato, back in 1997, owing to the fact they have never ratified their borders in accordance with international law, as confirmed by the un. still have not ratified the borders, so why is nobody telling them ‘just why they cannot join nato’?
strategic retreat of west from russian borders is not a viable option. finland, estonia, latvia, lithuania and poland all belong to nato. lithuania is building with latvia a string of defensive lines and fortresses between russia and kaliningrad. finland is building major nato base to joensuu, less than 100 km from russian border able to hit petersburg and murmansk.
no worries, rf already has the building blueprints of all the new fortresses and bases over there and is ready for a ‘first strike’🤫✌️💪
the ones you name are all nazi-states and can thus not be condidered serious. poland is the only one tha5 would be deemed a threat, the others would be mince-meat before they have time to say squat!
finns drink more vodka per capita than russia, ukraine and poland combined, and it shows.
when everything is done and dusted the criminal leaders of the eu must be put to answer for their misdeeds, like bringing the union into the war and spend say 200 billion € in support of ukraine. this is an unelected arm of the eu and no one bothered to ask the citizens in the union what they thought. von der lugen took it on herself to participate in the killing of say 750000 ukrainian male persons and for that she must hang! and borrell too!
eu citizens allow it
the word is out there that vladimir klitshko is the biggest pimp of all europe. under his penthouse there are 2 brothels, one of them is called “rio”.
first of all it’s me, not vladimir, who runs the family hoe business. and second, i am the not the biggest pimp of all europe. i am the biggest pimp of the entire planet motherficker
the day ukranazis join nato is the day that nato will be preemptively be wiped out from the face of planet earth with unstoppable nukes.