Ilya Ponomarev (in conversation with Jonathan Fink) : –
“The Kremlin must fall for there to be peace.”
The same massage from Jason Smart: he doesn’t believe that Ukraine can win on the battlefield: they have to destroy putler’s energy infrastructure and force regime change : –
Prof Gerdes :
“Ukraine’s entire theory of victory just changed.”
He believes that Ukraine must just hold the lines whilst smashing the putinaZi energy infrastructure and wait for Kremlin collapse :
Sadly no one seems to believe in Ukraine inflicting a military defeat on putler.
Except maybe for Gen. Hodges, who believes that Ukraine can retake Crimea and thus force a collapse in the regime that way.
And here is the latest toxic outburst from Trump :
Of course Ukraine can win outright militarily. But they can’t do it alone.
They can even do it despite the continued hostility of the pro-Kremlin Krasnov regime :
1/ release the $200 billion to Ukraine
2/ start constructing the NFZ
3/ send 3-4 divisions of mechanized infantry from allied armies, eg UK, Canada, France, the Balts, the Scandies, plus anyone else who would volunteer
4/ hire as many mercs as possible, eg the 100,000 demobbed Peshmerga fighters.
5/ cut putlerstan from SWIFT
6/ seize all putinaZi cash and assets
7/ expel all ruZZian passport holders from Europe.
8/ end all trade, travel and diplomatic links with the cauldron of devilry
9/ impose internment on all Kremlin propagandists in Europe
10/ block the broadcasts of US-based kremkrappers such as Carlson, Jones, Musk/X; aka Z, Macgregor, Sachs etc etc
11/ refuse visas for US-based propagandists, including certain members of the Krasnov regime
such as Gabbard, Kennedy, Vance, Hesketh, Patel, Colby, Bannon, Lanza, Krasnov Jr and of course Witkoff; a ruZZian agent in all but name.
12/ go after China, India, Iran, NK etc etc. Choke off their revenue sources in the west.
“Sadly no one seems to believe in Ukraine inflicting a military defeat on putler.
Except maybe for Gen. Hodges, who believes that Ukraine can retake Crimea and thus force a collapse in the regime that way.”
Well-informed people know exactly what potential Ukraine possesses, and much of it is displayed almost daily in explosive ways.