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Ukraine's Zelenskyy says he wants to end war with Russia through diplomacy next year
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What he likely means "ending the war by diplomatic means" is not talking or negotiating with Russia. No, that would be worst heresy imaginable. When he has previously talked about the use of diplomacy to find peace, what he really means is for Ukraine redouble it's efforts to beg for more money and weapons, but also get US and Europe to put more pressure on countries like China and India to ditch Putin and support Ukraine instead. Zelensky has talked along these lines before. Make his position seem reasonable to those who who want Ukraine to seek settlement, when it really isn't any different from "Zelensky's peace plan" that can be summed up in demand Russia's unconditional surrender as a precondition to any kind of dialogue.
I fear it's this kinda crazy talk that we are looking at. Zelensky or his inner circle just bring themselves to talk to the Russians, nor can they talk about things like giving up even places like Crimea. They just can't give an inch and we all know what happens to the reeds that don't bend with wind.
Zelenskyy literally cannot advocate for negotiated peace. The Right wing nationalist elements of Ukraine's coalition will effectively murder him if that becomes his position. It remains to be seen what will happen to him when he's forced into it by the reality of the war and the waning of international support by his patron states.
He's likely just going to flee to US or UK in the end.
He could've fled long ago if he wanted instead of facing the risk and staying. I respect him for that.
You are saying this as if he is Yahya Sinwar fighting on the front line and dying a warrior's death.
He has to stay till the last moment if he wants to keep political power. He's not in any personal danger.
Ukraine suspended all national/local elections, because he can't possibly win anything again. Fleeing while claiming to be a hero is certain.
He doesn't care about what anybody in Ukraine things, the key part is to make sure he can be the next Guaido for the US. If he flees too soon then there's going to be a new government formed without him and he becomes irrelevant. So, he's going to wait till there's a full on collapse to flee and claim to be government in exile.
The Guaido option will be pursued if there is not an anti-Russia government in Kyev, but it would fail as did the Guaido maneuver. Zelensky's global real estate holding alone, as a result of this war are disqualifying as a legitimate Ukrainian leader in exile. His $20m Miami mansion would look especially bad to make press conferences from. It is more likely that the CIA-NGO long game restarts after a Russia friendly government. A provision in the peace deal that was agreed to a month after the war start was that regions would be allowed after X years to hold referendums in order to join a side. This is key to not making Ukraine a nazi state determined to extract western weapons funding for its naziism, because no one votes for that shit.
Oh yeah very much agree there.
Is this Democracy?
Democracy in Ukraine ended at the apartheid ethnostate rules against Russian speakers. After the war, all pro-peace reasonable parties were banned, for being pro Russian. All local and federal elections were suspended after Zelensky's term was legally over. Free elections have occurred in Russian liberated regions of Ukraine.
As in Israel, it is inapropriate to categorize apartheid ethnostates as democracies.