If Russia goes in nuclear war then they know very well that as soon as they hit the first rocket they will cease to exist as a country as all other nuclear powers will respond accordingly shooting the hell out of Russia.Sure it will be a massive catastrophe in the world but I doubt if Russia is ready for this,they would be better to accept that they are losing this war every day and this is better to accept than starting a nuclear war which will end with the complete wipe of Russia from earth.
Biden administration is seriously looking to provide long range weapons to Ukraine,the Himars were a game changer last year,now the new ones will again be a game changer but a final one and Russia should accept that when you start an aggression based on bullshit reasons like Nazis in Ukraine you will lose this war and after losing it no one will look at Russia the same way again,the horrendous war crimes committed in Bucha,Irpin and Kharkiv will never be forgotten.
It seems Zelensky is cornered - he has less than ten days left to demonstrate success in the counteroffensive, which so far in the Zaporozhye direction (and this is the main direction for cutting the land corridor to Crimea) cannot even approach the first line of defense. And there are no successes in other areas either. Now is the time to attempt sabotage at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with radioactive contamination of the area. So the American sniffer plane obviously did not accidentally fly to Europe to monitor the air. Curious how far Zelenskiy is willing to go? Biden administration is seriously looking to provide long range weapons to Ukraine,the Himars were a game changer last year,now the new ones will again be a game changer but a final one and Russia should accept that when you start an aggression based on bullshit reasons like Nazis in Ukraine you will lose this war and after losing it no one will look at Russia the same way again,the horrendous war crimes committed in Bucha,Irpin and Kharkiv will never be forgotten.
He would need to show some progress, and there is some progress. Not as much as many would have liked and certainly not very fast (I mean, except for RF standards, that take 1 year for Bhakmut and cannot even keep it safe). I think that at this point the US and allies cannot really accept anything that looks too "victorious" for Putin, so if there is no progress, it simply means that the war will continue for another year.
Anyway, next week is going to be quite shaky. There are some indications of more pressure in all fronts.
And here is an interesting recent article in the Washington Post about the recent visit of the CIA director to Kyiv, it seems Zelensky is already considering options for peace negotiations taking into account Russia's interests, that is, with the recognition of territorial losses. I think you are right that the denouement is near, only I think it will be a very different denouement than the one you dream of. More like Ukraine's internal readiness to raise the white flag.
False, there are settlements captured in several sections of the front and a total of 40 km2 south and north of Bakhmut, 138 km2 south Velyka Novosilka and more than 100 km2 north of Robotyne. This is the equivalent of one year of RF fighting in a few weeks. If you measure progress with the same standards that you measure the old RF advances, Ukraine is going top speed.
Peace negotiations with territorial gains for RF ... I do not see that happening under Biden. Nor probably under any US president that understands what happens next if the RF "looks victorious".
Oh... glad to know that you consider the CIA as a trustworthy source... I hope your handlers do too but the article says...
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William Burns was told of Ukraine’s ambitious goal to retake territory and push Moscow into talks by the end of the year
