Good as I am sure many of us get fed up with the same worn out behaviour that has occurred in past. I can only commend, support and encourage this stand.
Right here.
Moved it for yea.
Yes, now back to playing new civ. Just had to check the world was not ending.
I guess at this stage Ukraine will have to think of what they can honestly do. They’re at a manpower disadvantage and have shown they don’t want to increase the draft age and they are overly reliant on partners who are never going to ship them the quantity of weapons needed to actually win the war. Realistically Ukraine isn’t going to be able to take back the occupied territory without a massive manpower influx that they just don’t have the resources for. I’m afraid in 5/6 years we’ll be seeing another Russian push for more of Ukraine unfortunately unless someone in the west grows a spine and pushes for actual measures towards ensuring Ukrainian security for whatever concessions the Ukrainians are going to have to make.
Sounds awfully like "Zelensky is not a legitimate leader because he wasn't elected for another term and thus we can't negotiate with him."
Those Euros need to get f'in serious about sending peacekeepers...
Now that they’ve mentioned the possibility of peacekeepers acting outside the NATO alliance maybe we’ll see it.
I think the deal Trump is proposing is to receive the minerals in exchange for the U.S. providing large amounts of weapons to effectively replenish the Ukranian stock piles so if the Russians try this again they will have much better weapons from the start. If the ukranians are okay with trading the resources it’s not the worst deal as they’d be considerably more powerful then they were three years ago.
Gotta admit I understand what Trump is offering with the minerals not a fan personally though. But if we’re being honest there is zero chance Ukraine regains all of its territory. It’s clear its partners aren’t going to provide the weapons nor do they have the manpower. Also there’s more than the United States that won’t let them in NATO Spain, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, and Turkey have all said they would veto it. Nobody likes it but it’s clear Ukraine’s allies arent going to do anything about it so if your Ukraine what’s your options? Try and make a deal with the hope you can rebuild your army and try to gain some deterrence through international peacekeepers, or keep fighting slowly losing territory hoping for a miracle Russian collapse that isn’t all that likely.
