From CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata:
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met our CBS News team at an undisclosed, bombed-out building in the far east of his country. Bombed-out buildings aren’t hard to come by here.
With spring approaching, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s forces had managed to hold off Russian advances through the worst of the winter months.
“We have stabilized the situation. It is better than it used to be two or three months ago when we had a big deficit of artillery ammunition, different kinds of weapons,” he said, “We totally didn’t see the big, huge counteroffensive from Russia… They didn’t have success.”
But Zelenskyy acknowledged that the invading Russian troops and their seemingly endless supply of missiles and shells had destroyed “some villages.”
“We didn’t have rounds, artillery rounds, a lot of different things,” he said, stressing that while his troops have managed to keep the Russians largely at bay up to now, they’re not prepared to defend against another major Russian offensive expected in the coming months.
and he’ll have the Ukrainian people and their resources to conscript against NATO
Idk man. I think we should really try to not escalate by further dismantling our militaries and not really doing anything to end the war. Appeasement is the only way, it’s been proven throughout history. If you show the aggressor you’re afraid and not willing to stop him he will relent and retreat behind his own borders.
The richest countries in the world cannot collectively supply enough arms to push back a third world country with the GDP of Italy, i’m tired boss.
If only Western politicians holding power believed that. But almost everybody, or at least too many, seem to be in denial. Or fatalistic maybe, believing what happens, happens and they can’t affect the outcome. But I think it’s more of a case of furiously burrowing one’s head in send and pretending everything will be back to the way it was in 2007 when they take it out, which they don’t plan on ever doing.
Scholz will keep scholzing on, though.
My guess is that Putin will trigger article 5 to be able to surrender while saving face.
He can’t stop the invasion without loosing face.
He can’t win the invasion in his lifetime or at all.
He will do something that mobilize NATO against him then he will sue for peace saying he was winning until NATO stepped in.
Autocrats are nothing if not predictable.
I am all for full on European support for Ukraine but I really doubt Zelensky’s claim here and doubt he believes it himself. Russia has nothing to gain and everything to lose from attacking NATO soil.
Before Ukraine invasion, Putin said “i have no plans to attack Ukraine”. The west believed him. 2024, Putin said: “i have no plans to attack NATO, once again, the west believes him. How… fucking… STUPID… are… we???!!!
I wish he would, trigger article 5, and let us fucking smoke them.
He’s not wrong.
Then the uninformed will bitch endlessly about “why didn’t we do something about it?”
define “very quickly”. Even if he somehow takes Ukraine, he’d first have to pause and rebuild for a decade or 2 likely more
Moldova sure, maybe Georgia. He can’t even handle ukraine, which has 3.5x less people. Nato would delete what’s left of the Russian military in days if not hours.
Putin and his mafia government are a blight on humanity. Imagine destabilizing the rest of the world being a requirement to supposedly uplift your country of lies from a gradually ruining state.
Hearing from friends, it gets closer everyday. People need to seriously wake up and realize that russian aggression won’t stop itself. My heart goes out to Ukrainians everyday.
We need to change rhetoric here in EU:
Escalation = appeasement
De-escalation = more artillery shells, more long range missiles
In the last two years we have seen that the best way to reduce escalation was providing more military support to UA.
He’s already testing by sending missiles over Polish airspace… Turkey shot down a jet without consequences. Stop Russia now before they’re sending AK-47s over the border to Polish “separatists.”
Ok, let’s indeed say that Ukraine falls. Russian economy in tatters, hundreds of thousands of dead, disabled people everywhere, brain drain that doesn’t stop. What’s a dictator to do then, besides continue war?
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From CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata:
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met our CBS News team at an undisclosed, bombed-out building in the far east of his country. Bombed-out buildings aren’t hard to come by here.
With spring approaching, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s forces had managed to hold off Russian advances through the worst of the winter months.
“We have stabilized the situation. It is better than it used to be two or three months ago when we had a big deficit of artillery ammunition, different kinds of weapons,” he said, “We totally didn’t see the big, huge counteroffensive from Russia… They didn’t have success.”
But Zelenskyy acknowledged that the invading Russian troops and their seemingly endless supply of missiles and shells had destroyed “some villages.”
“We didn’t have rounds, artillery rounds, a lot of different things,” he said, stressing that while his troops have managed to keep the Russians largely at bay up to now, they’re not prepared to defend against another major Russian offensive expected in the coming months.
**Read more:** [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-zelenskyy-says-putin-will-threaten-nato-quickly-if-not-stopped/?ftag=CNM-05-10abh9g](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-zelenskyy-says-putin-will-threaten-nato-quickly-if-not-stopped/?ftag=CNM-05-10abh9g)
and he’ll have the Ukrainian people and their resources to conscript against NATO
Idk man. I think we should really try to not escalate by further dismantling our militaries and not really doing anything to end the war. Appeasement is the only way, it’s been proven throughout history. If you show the aggressor you’re afraid and not willing to stop him he will relent and retreat behind his own borders.
The richest countries in the world cannot collectively supply enough arms to push back a third world country with the GDP of Italy, i’m tired boss.
If only Western politicians holding power believed that. But almost everybody, or at least too many, seem to be in denial. Or fatalistic maybe, believing what happens, happens and they can’t affect the outcome. But I think it’s more of a case of furiously burrowing one’s head in send and pretending everything will be back to the way it was in 2007 when they take it out, which they don’t plan on ever doing.
Scholz will keep scholzing on, though.
My guess is that Putin will trigger article 5 to be able to surrender while saving face.
He can’t stop the invasion without loosing face.
He can’t win the invasion in his lifetime or at all.
He will do something that mobilize NATO against him then he will sue for peace saying he was winning until NATO stepped in.
Autocrats are nothing if not predictable.
I am all for full on European support for Ukraine but I really doubt Zelensky’s claim here and doubt he believes it himself. Russia has nothing to gain and everything to lose from attacking NATO soil.
Before Ukraine invasion, Putin said “i have no plans to attack Ukraine”. The west believed him. 2024, Putin said: “i have no plans to attack NATO, once again, the west believes him. How… fucking… STUPID… are… we???!!!
I wish he would, trigger article 5, and let us fucking smoke them.
He’s not wrong.
Then the uninformed will bitch endlessly about “why didn’t we do something about it?”
define “very quickly”. Even if he somehow takes Ukraine, he’d first have to pause and rebuild for a decade or 2 likely more
Moldova sure, maybe Georgia. He can’t even handle ukraine, which has 3.5x less people. Nato would delete what’s left of the Russian military in days if not hours.
Putin and his mafia government are a blight on humanity. Imagine destabilizing the rest of the world being a requirement to supposedly uplift your country of lies from a gradually ruining state.
Hearing from friends, it gets closer everyday. People need to seriously wake up and realize that russian aggression won’t stop itself. My heart goes out to Ukrainians everyday.
We need to change rhetoric here in EU:
Escalation = appeasement
De-escalation = more artillery shells, more long range missiles
In the last two years we have seen that the best way to reduce escalation was providing more military support to UA.
He’s already testing by sending missiles over Polish airspace… Turkey shot down a jet without consequences. Stop Russia now before they’re sending AK-47s over the border to Polish “separatists.”
Ok, let’s indeed say that Ukraine falls. Russian economy in tatters, hundreds of thousands of dead, disabled people everywhere, brain drain that doesn’t stop. What’s a dictator to do then, besides continue war?