It’s not looking good, and it doesn’t really make sense to fight a losing war.
How do the Ukrainian people go about even discussing surrender among themselves? I’d imagine any mention of it would be met with hostilities, perhaps even violence.
It’s a shame because that lack of reasonable discussion can directly influence how many people die that could’ve otherwise been saved.
Not only are you promoting defeatist propaganda, but you’re also implying that patriotic Ukrainians have violent tendencies, something that’s quite rich when they’re the ones defending their homeland, not trampling stolen territory and kidnapping and murdering innocent civilians.
Promoting “peace in our time” that only leads to another war later, as was the case before World War II, is not an effective solution, and parallels the same fascist mentality encouraging Palestinians to leave Gaza “for their own safety”. Rather than promoting fascism, the solution is to participate in Starmer’s coalition of the willing, even without the participation of the US, and increase military aid to Ukraine and tariffs on Russia until it becomes too costly for Russia, both in terms of casualties and energy infrastructure losses.
Nothing less will promote a lasting peace.
That’s ironic. The truth is not propaganda.
This is nothing unique to Ukrainians. It’s part of the mob mentality and instinctual responses that take hold when nations are at war, similar to how you’re lying about me spreading propaganda when I’m just telling the truth.
I guess if you have a crystal ball, then sure. What exactly do you think Russian control of Ukraine would look like? Do you think Russians would treat Ukrainians different from their own citizens?
We know they would treat Ukrainians terribly because we know what happened in the regions captured by them.
While I have my opinion and you have yours, Zelensky’s popular support increasing to an even greater majority than before, not decreasing, after his defense of Ukrainian sovereignty during his visit to the White House, is telling of Ukrainian support for the continued defense of their sovereignty from Russian invaders.
Russia has already kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian children, covered up the torturing of murder of Ukrainian civilians, needlessly targeted Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, and claimed that the Ukrainian identity is a fabricated offshoot off being Russian. With such contempt for the linguistic, cultural, and self-deterministic rights of the Ukrainian people, anyone who for a second believes that Russia would allow for free and fair elections in Ukraine when it already targets political opponents, LGBTQ+ rights, and freedom of speech is either naive or intentionally deceitful.
Support for Zelensky isn’t the same as support for the war. Kyiv independent also doesn’t scream “impartial news source” to me. I could be wrong.
I agree that Russia will likely not allow fair elections or freedom of speech if they take over Ukraine, similar to how they’re not allowed in Russia now.
Nope, and Russian citizens aren’t exactly treated well. That’s kind of partly why they don’t want Russians to be in control. Because they suck at every level.
That’s a good point to bring up and I agree with you.