The Washington Post is out with a leaked story about something American Democratic Progressives suggested a few weeks ago and got beat up for….
America IS starting to lean on Ukraine President Zelensky to come around to being receptive allow talks about settling the Ukraine/Russian conflict ….
Yes… Zelensky SHOULD be pissed at hints from the Americans to make a ‘deal’ to end things….
Yes…Putin IS bombing Ukraine cities….
Yes…The Ukraine IS making advances…..
BUT?
President Biden, America and the West simply will NOT be able to keep standing on the side pumping money into the Ukraine….
Aware that Putin himself has pressue on himself with the Ukraine gaining in the conflict?
One would think the West thinks this IS the time for thye side’s to end the carnage….
Biden HAS been able to keep the West united behind the Ukraine…
But the clock IS clicking…
Zelensky and Putin REALLY DO need figure out how get their domestic postives out their actions and work something out before things start to go sideways and escalate ….
And YES…
President Biden WILL HAVE TO get involved weither Zelensky likes it or not….
He and America and the West have and counties to have his back…
But things are splintering amount other countries which are feeling the effects of the conflicts in their economies and political lives….
The discussions illustrate how complex the Biden administration’s position on Ukraine has become…
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Despite Ukrainian leaders’ refusal to talk to Putin and their vow to fight to retake all of Ukraine, U.S. officials say they believe that Zelensky would probably endorse negotiations and eventually accept concessions, as he suggested he would early in the war. They believe that Kyiv is attempting to lock in as many military gains as it can before winter sets in, when there might be a window for diplomacy.
Zelensky faces the challenge of appealing both to a domestic constituency that has suffered immensely at the hands of Russian invaders and a foreign audience providing his forces with the weapons they need to fight. To motivate Ukrainians domestically, Zelensky has promoted victory rather than settlement and become a symbol of defiance that has motivated Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.
While members of the Group of Seven industrialized bloc of nations seemingly threw their weight behind a Ukrainian vision of victory last month, endorsing a plan for a “just peace” including potential Russian reparation payments and security guarantees for Ukraine, some of those same countries see a potential turning point if Ukrainian forces approach Crimea….
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Illustrating Russia’s elevation of Crimea, the Kremlin responded to an explosion last month on a bridge linking the region to mainland Russia— a symbol of Moscow’s grip of the peninsula — by launching a barrage of missiles on Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, ending a long period of peace in the capital.
In the meantime, Ukrainian leaders continue to telegraph their intention to pursue total victory, not only to their beleaguered citizens but also to Moscow….
image….Newsweek