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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The US has ignored Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s “victory plan,” with the White House limiting itself to allocating only a few billion dollars, The Times reported. This comes as former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has urged Ukraine to recognise the reality that territory has been lost to Russia and to use the model of the agreement made in the aftermath of the Soviet-Finnish War (1939-40).
The British outlet pointed out that “while the Americans sent [Zelensky] on his way with the promise of another $2.4 billion in assistance, he didn’t get the go-ahead” to strike targets in Russia with long-range weapons or any guarantees of future aid and NATO membership, which he so desperately wanted.
Zelensky’s widely touted “victory plan” has not aroused enthusiasm in the US, with a British diplomat describing the plan as a “shopping list rather than a strategy,” The Times reported.
The article also notes that even senior European officials who previously criticised their governments for hesitating to help Kiev are now changing their position.
The newspaper quoted a German official claiming that the war is reaching a “stalemate,” even after Russian forces liberated Ugledar, the last major stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction. Now, Russian troops will be able to advance towards Velikaya Novosyolka, on the border with the Zaporozhye region and Kurakhovo, where the Ukrainian military has defensive lines. In addition, the liberation of Ugledar completely secured the highway between Donetsk and Mariupol.
Nonetheless, despite the German official’s ridiculous claim, he did highlight that Europe could not afford to fund the war “forever” and that the Kiev regime would have to become more realistic in its expectations.
Zelensky said he would present his so-called “Victory Plan” to allies on October 12 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, outlining “clear, concrete steps” to defeat Russia.
“We will present the Victory Plan, clear, concrete steps for a just end to the war. The determination of the partners and the strengthening of Ukraine is what can stop Russian aggression,” Zelensky said in a post on Telegram.
The Ukrainian president is demanding more military aid from allies and authorisation to use Western-supplied weapons against Russian territory. Zelensky is especially desperate since Ukraine’s energy grid nears collapse as winter approaches, Russian forces are rapidly advancing across the front, and fears that American support could be withdrawn if Donald Trump is elected in November.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on Zelensky’s announcement and stressed that the Ukrainian leader has no feasible “plans” even for the West.
This is a reality now even recognised among Kiev’s most fanatical supporters, such as Jens Stoltenberg, who stepped down as NATO Secretary on October 1, who pointed to the experience of the Soviet-Finnish war, also known as the Winter War, in an interview with the Financial Times and hinted that Kiev should consider recognising territorial losses to Russia.
The West should “make the conditions” that would enable Ukraine to “sit down with the Russians and get something which is acceptable… something where they survive as an independent nation,” Stoltenberg continued.
When asked what he could propose to Zelensky, the former NATO chief compared it to the resolution of the Soviet-Finnish war.
“Finland fought a brave war against the Soviet Union in ’39… The war ended with them [Finland] giving up 10 per cent of the territory. But they got a secure border,” the article pointed out.
Stoltenberg suggested that “a kind of new momentum” would come after the US presidential election in early November, possibly introducing “ways to try to get movement on the battlefield combined with movement around the negotiating table.”
Meanwhile, while Zelensky continues to delay peace negotiations with Moscow and instead presents delusional Victory Plans to his Western patrons, Ukrainian soldiers continue to die en mass while military equipment is continually destroyed. The Russian Defence Ministry announced that Ukraine had lost 16,650 troops in the Russian special military operation zone over the past week alone, while since the special military operation began in February 2022, the Russian military has destroyed hundreds of aircraft and helicopters, over 30,000 drones, 18,524 tanks and other armoured vehicles, 1,469 multiple launch rocket systems, 15,569 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 26,915 special military vehicles.
With Ukraine experiencing such a high casualty rate and Russia methodically destroying Western military equipment, Zelensky’s “Victory Plan” is perfectly understood to be nothing more than a pipedream. It is more than likely that Zelensky will be left disappointed after presenting his “Victory Plan” at Ramstein Air Base as he will not receive all that he demands from the West.
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an endless buying plan is excellent strategy. the top elites in ukraine and the u.s. have already cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, mainly to the benefit of the blackrock investment group and the rothschilds. not to mention, they are pushing the dark agenda of depopulation of the planet and white men replacement, agreed upon at bilderberg sometime around 2010. everyone called this information a “conspiracy”. now all these “conspiracies” have become true.
the rothschilds own jack the only real estate is real. estate not fiat money. they know it that’s why they’ve been wanting to marry into the royals who won’t let them.
wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong again.
good article and pictures on infowars today on this subject “corrupt ukrainian official’s son found lying in bed with huge sum of money, $6 million in total seized from medical fraud operation”
well info wars is being split up and auctioned off they’ll get 2 bucks for it cause that’s all it’s worth.
who cares? it’s all over alt-media. nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide.
there is a plan, and it could succeed
in the first hour more than a thousand drones will be launched from ukraine on targets in russia. in a day number of drones and missiles fired at russian territory will be in thousands, with all the support of electronic warfare. info on targets (as usual) will be provided by usa.
try it… i can tell you how it’ll end blindfolded.
the thing is: nato in this present state of the conflict in ukrane does not have other effective methods to cause harm on the russian side. before they move onto potentially catastropic escalation, they will use what they have
you forgot to add the khinzal pizza into your girl math equations…
targets: energy, logistics, some in industry. the goal will be to make damage so destructive that russia becomes logistically crippled, drastically reducing it’s capacity to supply the frontline.
knowing previous failures or russian side to recognize coming enemy offensive, i think they could succeed
carry the sarmat nuclear missiles, divide by 0.5% of patriot batteries, and subtract the pizza… and the answer is, it’s still a bad idea to fuck with russia, and y’all gonna fucking die if you don’t fucking stop it off.
nato will use what it has and has proven effective. mass drone and missile attacks -have proven to be effective – and sufficient number of this ordinance they can amass in acceptable time. your math is? sarmat divided by 0.5 – pizza? good for an 11 year old. congratulations.
follow the money
laughable victory plan and those gullible western stooges who jump on that wagon. what damage they do to their reputations when even common folks can see the silliness of what ukr is demanding. western leaders choose to support these useless ideals and use tax payer funded trips to support. is there a crime for laundering money is this fashion by govt leaders.
nato belongs in the last century, just like the ussr. it’ll soon be kicked back there with its pants down.
ever since the collapse of the ussr, it’s been an ever more active sponsor of terrorism to achieve its goals. its reckoning is nigh..
war is a racket. read zee book, writen by butler, bout sums it up what’s going on right now…his insights are still relevant today, 100 years nearly and still kicking the truth.
zelensky’s ‘victory plan’ looks more and more like a full shopping bag caught in a downpour, spilling its junk food all over the parking lot.
this endless zelensky pantomime is getting nauseating… how much more of an arms dealer poster boy does this cokehead need to be? zelensky be like, we need guns cause russia… everyone needs the more guns, give to ukraine, we fight for you… this whole idiotic ‘project ukraine’ has been a giant frikken arms lobby commercial, with real people dying in the adverts… nato is morally bankrupt for doing this shit.
nato was morally bankrupt and wallowing in shit way before doing this shit.
yeah, back in ’99 they went on a mission to break kosovo from serbia. now they’re on a mission to keep the donbass from breaking away from ukraine and that’s after the ukranazis slaughtered way more civilians in the donbass than the serbs did in kosovo. nato might fight for hegemonic monopolarity but damn, if they’re not a bipolar nutcase.
zelensky still talking about victory, is a testament to the danger and power of high grade cocaine.
russian victory and ukrainian defeat@unconditional surrender!,de-nazification!, de-militarization&de-coupling from nato!.total concession of ukrainian coast from mariupol to odessa liking to transdinistria!.the only real-peace deal that us&eu nato can get plus zelenskky’s head on a platter for russian revenge!!. ru -z!!.