“Putin Is Making His Plans Brutally Clear” by Natalya Gumenyuk 🇺🇦 “His plans are occupation, devastation and destruction…But Ukrainians are still capable of turning their anger into action.”
by themimeofthemollies
“Putin Is Making His Plans Brutally Clear” by Natalya Gumenyuk 🇺🇦 “His plans are occupation, devastation and destruction…But Ukrainians are still capable of turning their anger into action.”
by themimeofthemollies
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OP article no paywall
https://archive.ph/2024.01.16-062446/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opinion/putin-ukraine-war.html
“Russia’s strikes increased as attempts to authorize more funding for Ukraine stalled in the U.S. Congress and in Europe.”
“Since the fall, Kyiv’s western allies have reportedly been quietly pushing for negotiations to end the war.”
“By the end of December, Vladimir Putin was also reportedly signaling that he, too, was ready to make a deal.”
“A Russian political observer I talked to suggested that these signals from Mr. Putin were calibrated to capitalize on the sense of gloom among Ukraine’s allies in Europe and the United States; to further delay military aid when Ukraine was already low on ammunition and vulnerable, and to allow Russia to further press its advantage.”
“But Ukrainians already know that when it comes to Mr. Putin, one must not trust what he says, but watch what he does.”
“From Kyiv it’s clear that Mr. Putin is not preparing to offer anything that Ukrainians could agree to — and he knows it. His plans are occupation, devastation and destruction.”
“Peace would require a genuine guarantee that the Kremlin won’t use a cease-fire simply to rearm and launch a renewed assault from the occupied Ukrainian territories.”
“According to recent polling, most Ukrainians are still against any territorial concessions to Russia and many say any peace deal must also bring Crimea back under Ukraine’s control, lest the threat of invasion continue indefinitely.”
“What Mr. Putin is offering — according to The Times, a cease-fire that “freezes the fighting along the current lines” — is not peace but occupation, and occupation is just a different kind of war.”
Gumenyuk links this NYT report (no paywall):
“Zelensky Calls for Peace, Not More Weapons, in Davos”
“Mr. Zelensky said that 83 countries had participated in a conference of national security advisers on Sunday in Davos to agree on a final draft of the peace proposal.”
“For us, it is very important to show the whole world is against Russian aggression and the whole world is for a just peace,” he said.
“Ukraine introduced the plan in 2022 and has been seeking to build support ever since.”
“After the meeting of national security advisers, Ukrainian officials rejected, as they have done repeatedly, the possibility of talks that would lead to a cease-fire freezing the current frontline in place.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/RdzbHG1Xq3
This is a war that must be WON! 🌻🇺🇦☮️
Because Putin can never be trusted to keep any just peace.
Bottom line truth to power here from Natalya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist and witness of Russian genocidal evil on the ground:
“I understand the emotional fatigue of watching the Russian war against Ukraine from a distance.”
“I understand how a sense of powerlessness can engender disappointment and cynicism.”
“Yet from here, ruminating about giving up feels like a luxury.”
“If the Ukrainian army lays down arms, more people could be harmed.”
“For us, that simple fact drives us forward in this war.”
“So Ukrainians feel it is their duty to persuade the world, and particularly America and Europe, that their support is not in vain.”
“That it saves lives every day.”
Proof from Illia Ponomarenko to reinforce Gumenyuk’s urgent point about saving lives:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/bwh3a3eiSE
FYI: the NYT Ukraine coverage remains peculiar and extremely problematic.
Bias from the NYT seems pretty overt sometimes, yet publishing this OP by Gumenyuk is spot on good for freedom.
Important to remember how the NYT has been extremely suspect and possibly untrustworthy in their bias for Russia since Walter Duranty days…
Worth reading:
‘The New York Times’ can’t shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize”
“Yet the war in Ukraine has renewed questions of whether the Times should return a Pulitzer awarded 90 years ago for work by Walter Duranty, its charismatic chief correspondent in the Soviet Union.”
“He is the personification of evil in journalism,” says Oksana Piaseckyj, a Ukrainian-American activist who came to the U.S. as a child refugee in 1950.”
“We think he was like the originator of fake news.”
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097097620/new-york-times-pulitzer-ukraine-walter-duranty
Putin’s plan has *been* clear for a very long time now, before Ukraine, even before Crimea.
Between outwardly being hostile to the West in its entirety, to making light of Europeans “dying in the cold”, to allowing the operation of camps for abducted men suspected of being homosexual, to trying to overthrow governments and rot them from the inside and not even trying hard to deny it…..
Oh, did I mention their complete lack of trustworthiness? Putin’s government lies, non-fucking-stop. Like pathological liars. State-run news and propaganda. Political talk shows completely unhinged, foaming at the mouth at the use of nuclear arms. Humoring cease-fires just to, well, fire. Oh! And literally invading a country despite saying they weren’t invading anyone. Most of their former subjects *hate* them. Not even all of the UK’s former colonies hate them, ffs. All you have to do is try a little, but Putin’s Russia gives no fucks about relations. They just beat shit with a club until it listens, no finesse.
I could go on, but I feel like everyone here is on the same page
Slava Ukraini