Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would like to end the war with Russia next year through “diplomatic means” as both countries prepare for President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
In an interview with the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne, Zelenskyy said he is certain that the war will end “sooner” than it otherwise would have once Mr. Trump becomes president.
The prospect of Trump returning to power in the United States next year has raised questions about the future of the conflict, as the Republican has been critical of U.S. military aid to Kyiv.
Zelenskyy said that Ukraine “must do everything so that this war ends next year, ends through diplomatic means.”
He could’ve fled long ago if he wanted instead of facing the risk and staying. I respect him for that.
You are saying this as if he is Yahya Sinwar fighting on the front line and dying a warrior’s death.
He has to stay till the last moment if he wants to keep political power. He’s not in any personal danger.
Ukraine suspended all national/local elections, because he can’t possibly win anything again. Fleeing while claiming to be a hero is certain.
He doesn’t care about what anybody in Ukraine things, the key part is to make sure he can be the next Guaido for the US. If he flees too soon then there’s going to be a new government formed without him and he becomes irrelevant. So, he’s going to wait till there’s a full on collapse to flee and claim to be government in exile.
The Guaido option will be pursued if there is not an anti-Russia government in Kyev, but it would fail as did the Guaido maneuver. Zelensky’s global real estate holding alone, as a result of this war are disqualifying as a legitimate Ukrainian leader in exile. His $20m Miami mansion would look especially bad to make press conferences from. It is more likely that the CIA-NGO long game restarts after a Russia friendly government. A provision in the peace deal that was agreed to a month after the war start was that regions would be allowed after X years to hold referendums in order to join a side. This is key to not making Ukraine a nazi state determined to extract western weapons funding for its naziism, because no one votes for that shit.
Oh yeah very much agree there.
Is this Democracy?
Democracy in Ukraine ended at the apartheid ethnostate rules against Russian speakers. After the war, all pro-peace reasonable parties were banned, for being pro Russian. All local and federal elections were suspended after Zelensky’s term was legally over. Free elections have occurred in Russian liberated regions of Ukraine.
As in Israel, it is inapropriate to categorize apartheid ethnostates as democracies.