Zelenskyy: ‘If Ukraine falls, Putin will surely go further. What will the United States of America do when Putin reaches the Baltic states? When he reaches the Polish border? We have a lot of gratitude. What else must Ukraine do for everyone to measure our huge gratitude? We are dying in this war.’
by marketrent
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If Ukraine loses the first step Russia will take is to modernize their army. I’m sure they are aware how pathetic they compare to Western military. Then they will go for Moldova, Georgia, and other former USSR states. Then in the long-term future they might go for the Baltic states if NATO collapses.
Under no circumstances should be Putin be allowed to win. Imperialism has been over in Europe for more than 70 years and this cunt wants to bring it back
From a transcript of the 60 Minutes interview released on September 17th:^1
>Scott Pelley: The United States has contributed about $70 billion to your war effort, and I wonder if you expect that level of support to continue?
>Zelenskyy (translated): The United States of America [is] supporting Ukraine financially and I’m grateful for this.
>I just think they’re not supporting only Ukraine alone.
>If Ukraine falls, Putin will surely go further. What will the United States of America do when Putin reaches the Baltic states? When he reaches the Polish border? He will.
>This is a lot of money. We have a lot of gratitude. What else must Ukraine do for everyone to measure our huge gratitude? We are dying in this war. (PAUSE)
>Look, if Ukraine falls, what will happen in ten years? Just think about it. If [the Russians] reach Poland, what’s next? A Third World War?
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>Pelley: What will it take? Another $70 billion?
>Zelenskyy (translated): I don’t have an answer. The whole world [has to] decide whether we want to stop Putin, or whether we want to start the beginning of a world war.
>We can’t change Putin. Russian society has [lost] the respect of the world. They elected him, and re-elected him and raised a second Hitler. They did this. We cannot go back in time.
>But we can stop it here.
>Ukraine stopped the Russian advance, but at a terrible cost. Ruined cities, millions of refugees, untold thousands of dead, all for Vladimir Putin’s nation-building vanity.
>Today the war is fought on a 700-mile front. The red area is the 20% of Ukraine still occupied by Russia. That is where western donated tanks were supposed to punch through cutting the Russian force in half.
>But trenches, minefields and artillery stopped the armored advance.
>Now, it’s an artillery duel with each side firing about 40,000 shells a day. Ukrainian infantry is advancing bloody yards at a time.
>It’s World War I with drones.
^1 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-60-minutes-transcript/
We don’t need Ukraine’s gratitude. We need Ukraine to win. Ukraine has our gratitude. Slava Ukraini!
I’m going to correspond with the President and my Senators and Congressperson again. It’s been a few months.
This is a good time for Zelenskyy to visit the US.
Totaly agree with zelenski.
That’s a great answer, for a not so great question. I understand that Americans would like to spend on healthcare, but Ukrainians would prefer not to die now either. Russia started this war. We are already in this reality, and here the only option is to pay with money or blood defending nato, and the question of how much more money needs to be spent only plays into the hands of Russian propaganda, imo. Besides, assistance to Ukraine is far from comparable to what was spent during the Cold War. And now some people act like it’s not a history page.