| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:What about Ukraine | |
| Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
| Date/Time: | 17/01/24 10:14:00 |
| The mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children by the Russian state is an established fact ruled on by an international court with warrants for the arrest of the perpatrators issued including Vladimir Putin. Claims of Ukrainian child trafficking you repeatedly make are unevidenced from shady blogs obvious sponsored by the Russians in an attempt to obfuscate their crimes. We all know what is going on and so do you but you repeat these falsehoods in a sad attempt to be interesting. With regard to your claims that it is over because Zelensky is asking Switzerland to negotiate peace terms, this is self -evidently false and based on a post by a financial sector Twitter account with no direct knowledge of what is going on. What actually has happened is that Ukraine is asking more world leaders and the summit in Davos to sign up for their peace formula which they have been proposing for some time. This includes full Russian withdrawal from the territories they have illegally invaded such as Crimea. If the Russians accepted this it would be over but they haven't. That's not to say things are going well for the Ukrainians right now. The log jam in funding from both the EU and US has left them desperately short of munitions while the Russians have increased supply from North Korea and Iran. However, despite this short term tactical advantage, the Russians are making tiny gains at huge cost. While the land war is going badly, the Ukrainians have now made the western half of the Black Sea theirs and are increasingly winning the air war. The shooting down earlier this week of the A-50, a $250 million plane is probably more strategically significant than the sinking of the Moskva and leaves the Russians with massive blind spots. This is even before the F16s have been introduced which looks imminent. The Ukrainians are proving that if they are willing to accept more strikes on their civilian population by moving Patriot batteries forward they can score major successes. The big question is can they move from the current situation of air parity to air supremacy particularly over Crimea. If they can the game may be up for Putin and enabling them to do so is entirely in the west's hands. |