Ukraine..What's the Next Step?

High ranking officials from Zelensky’s inner circle have been purchasing multi-million dollar properties in Switzerland 

Yep. Saw this last month:

”Did anybody stop to think that sending billions of dollars in no-strings-attached aid to one of Europe’s poorest countries — that also happens to be one of the world’s most corrupt countries — might be a poor use of US taxpayer funds?

According to Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, (a scale of least to most corrupt nations), Ukraine ranked 122nd out of 180 countries, the most corrupt in Europe.”

Statements from US and Western officials, as well as accounts in the mainstream media, have created a purposefully misleading image of Ukraine. There has been an effort to portray the country not only as a victim of Putin’s aggression, but as a plucky and noble underdog and a champion of freedom and democracy in the region. CNN’s John Blake literally compared Ukraine to America in the Revolutionary War.

The reality is darker and troubling: Ukraine has long been one of the most corrupt countries in a world of corrupt countries.

Ukraine’s track record of protecting democracy and civil liberties is not much better than its performance on corruption. In Freedom House’s 2022 report, Ukraine is listed in the “partly free” category, with a score of 61 out of a possible 100.

While there is no evidence US funds were spent on these Swiss properties, corruption has been rampant in Ukraine since the end of the Cold War and the world is now turning a blind eye while pumping Kiev’s coffers full of the folding stuff. Given this sobering reality, calls for Americans to “stand with Ukraine” are misplaced.

There's merit in her argument.  Wars aren't won by slowing things way down and dragging everything out over years.   Just ask the Republicans who got us into two wars in the middle east lasting nearly two decades, until finally a savvy Democrat got us the hell out.

As long as the majority of Western countries continue united to militarily and financially support Ukraine, chances are Putin going to lose his war against Ukraine. 

“This is an (Ukraine) existential threat. They’re fighting for the very life of their country, “So, your ability to endure suffering, to endure casualties is directly proportional to the object to be attained.”--Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-06-22/russian-troops-in-ukraine-face-extraordinary-casualty-rates-u-k-intelligence

Russian losses.

Ukraine, which regularly provides updates on Russian military losses, said on Facebook that since Vladimir Putin's war began on February 24, Russia has lost 1,637 tanks, including 35 in a single day.

The Russian military has also lost 36,900 military personnel, 3,811 armored combat vehicles, 828 artillery systems, 247 multiple rocket launchers, 107 air defense systems, 217 aircraft, 669 operational-tactical UAVs, 15 warships and boats, 2,685 vehicles and tankers, and 187 helicopters, according to Ukraine's combat losses update, posted by the general staff of the country's armed forces.

Secondary front women enlisting in Ukraine army is highest ever.

Asked why do they want to fight?

" I want to kill as many Russians as possible for what they done."

Here is your AR 15 go get me tigress..... Kill all you can.

Snake island has been liberated.

Reminds me of the symbolism in iwo Jima

Putin states meet him in an open battlefield.

Crippling sanctions seized property colossal failure as an invadion...

Oh.... So you getting your candy ass whooped by wheat farmers so obviously  it time to have your city wiped from the face of the earth..... 

Little man is having a tantrum cause he a loser.

Saudi Arabia is agreement to create more production and Iran is negotiating a settlement with European union so Russia can't leverage oil....

He is desperately clinging to antiquated notion of a Russian empire. 

W why doesn't he just take his cargo tanker ban

Go from turkey...oh ya turkey is a member of NATO that ship and the grain it stole is now ours to pay for Ukrainian rebuilding programs.....

When will US taxpayers be paid back? Has Zelensky’s inner circle already spent the money on real estate in Switzerland? 

Wait......are you talking about the fascist-dictator Putin  or  the neo-fascist wannabe dictator donald trump?

Donald Trump is 6’3” 

Ukraine is making a major diplomatic shift ,

firing its ambassadors to India, Czech republic Germany and Hungary.

A major shake up in its diplomatic core.....

HIMARS appears to be the game changer in the Ukraine War, 4 sets of these Multiple Rocket Launcher System have already smashed 20+ Russian ammunition depos and several command posts and destroyed one Russian military base at Melitopol airfield in Zaporizhzhia. 

Biden Administration has also approved sending additional four sets of HIMARS to Ukraine.   

Updated at 03.00: Later, the so-called "Luhansk People's Republic" stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had fired nine missiles from American-made HIMARS multiple-launch rocket systems at Luhansk

Both U.S. and Ukraine senior officials have agreed with that Multiple Rocket Launcher System, HIMARS, have obtained major military objective against Russian forces in the battle of Donbas.

"In the last weeks, over 30 of the enemy's military logistical facilities have been destroyed, as a result of which the attacking potential of Russian forces has been significantly reduced," Ukraine's Defense Ministry spokesperson, Oleksandr Motuzianyk said Friday on national television.*

*https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-us-say-rocket-strikes-significantly-slowing-down-russia-/6660942.html

The himars systems are effective efficient and accurate...

So...let em rip boys... Kill every officer in any place they seek shelter...

Putin's bastard son...dead....

The little man can not stop NATO any more than Hitler could stop patten.

My licence plate said live free or die... Welll.... Is life so precious we become slaves again.....

Stop pandering to Russia....

Find a mass grave and bury them.

As clear as I can get.

From the prophets mouth to president zelensky...

1 Samuel 15:3
“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

Biden bans Russian oil

Biden begs Saudis for oil

Saudis can’t provide it

Saudis buys oil from Russia

Saudis put dirty vig on oil, sell to US

Biden thanks Saudis 

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-saudi-arabia-doubles-q2-russian-fuel-oil-imports-power-generation-2022-07-14/
 

Bejing states if you do this to Putin.... ( drop a nuclear weapon) we can not be aligned with your country. Guess Putin's super secret meeting was hacked by the "russians"

The words came out of Valeriy Zaluzhniy, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, "the timely arrival of M142 HIMARS, which deliver surgical strikes on enemy control posts, ammunition and fuel storage depots,". 

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-07-18-22/index.html

It appears these highly accurate rocket systems provided by western countries, mainly the U.S., have tipped the advantage point toward Ukraine from Russia in the battle of the Eastern and Southern Front. 

Putin is 5 3..... 

Today.

Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, visited Washington at the invitation of the U.S. first lady Jill Biden. Zelenska met Monday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Blinken assured her of the United States’ commitment to Ukraine, and commended her for her work with civilians dealing with trauma and other damage from the war. Zelenska is expected to meet with Jill Biden on Tuesday.