As Vladimir Zelensky pretends he is not losing, his citizens are increasingly rising up against forced conscription.
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Ukraine's self-declared above-election leader Vladimir Zelensky has found time to publicly share his fantasies with the only audience he cares about: the West, in particular the US, and specifically its president Donald Trump. Since it must be hard for Zelensky to get anyone's ear in Washington nowadays - who likes a sponger returning for the zillionth time after being shown the door? - he had to do it in public. Luckily, The Atlantic was ready to help (sort of, but we'll get to that).
And yes, that would be the same Atlantic that has downplayed the Epstein monstrosities.Unduly platformed in the Western mainstream media once again, Zelensky used
a conversation with American journalist Simon Shuster to hold forth on his unyielding will to fight to the very last Ukrainian, or, really, the last one who isn't rich and connected. Because, in Zelensky's cozy Kiev office - nicely decorated with some of those Ukrainian unit insignia that look just like Nazi ones -
Ukraine is not really losing the war. Just like Germany back then, I guess. And since Ukraine is not
really losing the war in Zelensky-world, Zelensky seeks to persuade Trump that Russia can be compelled into a peace that does not correspond to the fact that, in the real world, Russia is winning the war. See? Easy! If only Donald would finally get it, too.
Yet, hyper-focused as he is on getting back into the good graces - and purse - of Washington,
Zelensky is missing the fact that ordinary Ukrainians have had enough. Or, of course, he simply could not care less. Yet a fact remains a fact: Ukrainians are not only unwilling to go to the front to die, be injured, or captured in a perfectly avoidable and absolutely hopeless proxy war on behalf of the West, they are also
increasingly rebellious.Indeed, they have long been reluctant enough to produce extremely high rates of going AWOL and desertion: Since February 2022, the total number of prosecutions for both - slightly different - ways of running from the military
has reached about 300,000. Since the authorities do not even have the capacity to go after all cases, this is certain to be an undercount.
Comment: Yes, it is absurd that Germany and Europe as a whole is so woefully prepared for what has been a fairly cold winter, though nothing exceptional. Believing in the global warming and not investing in ice breakers was a disaster waiting to happen and this is only a mild disaster. Denmark is another country, which a few years ago scrapped 2 ice breakers and sold the only other one. Needless to say Denmark is without any plans to have new ones built and no longer having the know how, skills and capacity to build them domestically.
The current Russophobia in the EU has only seen them more dependent on the US for energy and especially in the form of LNG.
According to Grok, then a multipurpose ship is being relocated from the North Sea and should arrive in the Mukran channel on the 18th of February and take over the duty of clearing the passage for tankers.
German's energy situation is a disaster and yet those in power are more interested in war than solving the domestic problems:
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