[Zelensky] said he was contemplating the move to ensure the country remains led by individuals who are “convinced of victory” against Russia.
is so fucked
to ensure the country remains led by individuals who are “convinced of victory” against Russia
Surrounding yourself with yes-men in the middle of a war you're losing is always a great idea.
Worked for Ngô Đình Diệm
Until, you know, the thing
So I suppose running the war like a start-up is going really great
Hey now Walmart and Amazon ran st a loss 📉 for a long time and created some of the most wealthy bastards on earth. So a war run by the same Wall Street logic should yeild the same results
just keep spending in deficit until your competition can't keep up and closes shop.
Zelensky being assassinated by his own army would be Double Christmas. Do the funniest thing possible and end the war tomorrow.
He's the goofball half pint underling that does what he's told with a smile. Killing him would be about as meaningful as blowing up a big "Slava Ukraine" billboard.
It wouldn't do much domestically beyond give peacemakers a chance to assert their power, but internationally Zelensky is the only charismatic Ukrainian liberals have attached to and I don't think they can replace him with someone similar. Ukraine's next leader isn't going to have the same ability to convince foreign voters to keep giving them money. If it causes a spiral of instability, that also forces Ukraine to the negotiating table all the same. It's an inevitability that I don't think has drawbacks if the goal is to end the war.
internationally Zelensky is the only charismatic Ukrainian liberals have attached to
Because he's been the one getting all the attention and praise. Modi gets the same treatment in India. Macron gets the same treatment in France. Milei has been getting big glow-ups in Argentina since he began running for office. NPR/CNN/et-al are still trying to make Navalny a thing in Russia.
They could bring in new media darlings if they wanted to. It would just take a bunch of work, running this person through the media machine a few dozen times until Americans were comfortable with them again. But then... why? What's the point? When you already have Zelensky and he's already doing literally everything you ask of him, what else do you actually need?
Zaluzhny isn't a peace maker. He's very much aligned with the psychotic far right in ukraine. He doesn't want to make peace, he wants to stop hurling away people on political objectives that have no military value (bakhmut, idiotic counteroffensives, hold the line at all costs type thinking that dominates the zelensky gang)
It’d just be blamed on Russia. The West will never report on such an event.
Ukrainian president confirms he’s thinking about dismissing the country’s military chief
That doesn't sound like something one should just openly say if they don't want to get coup'd. Either just do it or shut up about it until you do.
"Hello, guy who's in control of my military? I might or might not dismiss you, idk tho"You're absolutely right. Just look at him:
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If I casted a 2005 movie about a Ukrainian wartime coup I would be begging for Zelensky and this guy to play the two main roles
He has surpassed the thumb phenotype to become something greater
Who does this guy remind me of? I've seen some character with his face recently but can't place it.
I mean it would be very funny if Zaluzhny snapped Zelenskyyyyyy like a twig and fed him to vultures
Yea that strikes me as a really bad move. Why announce you're "thinking about it"? Either lock him out overnight and strip him of official power fast enough that he can't react or keep your mouth shut. Zelensky may as well be asking to be couped (not victim blaming) if he's behaving like this
If Zaluzhny would just clap more and believe harder Ukraine could transcend material reality and tap into the Great Narrative to achieve victory
Zelenskyy said “we have 30 million people in this country” when questioned about whether the army has sufficient manpower
Don’t worry the superior Ukrainian Will shall bolster the volk into an undefeatable army! The women, children, elderly, disabled and cowardly politicians remaining will win!
there were like 42 million people in that country a few years ago... going well.
It's a good thing Russia has less than 30 million people in their country then! Surely Russia couldn't have a larger population than Ukraine.
That statement really reads like "I am willing to sacrifice every last person in this country".
If Zelensky had any brains at all he'd resign, grab a bag, and dip the fuck out
He's asking for a bullet now lmao
Yeah he should have created an exile government in Mar-a-Lago a while ago. Just collect free cash while sipping mojitos.
Why must Ukrainian use of Cyrillic be so complicated compared to Russian?
The USA won't let him. They sent Victoria Nuland over to Ukraine to give Zelensky the order to fire his general or find him a new job in the government.
Russian immigrant Vladimir Yksnelez arrives in Maldives to seek new job on fishing boat, June 2024
In unrelated news, far right militias claim to have assassination president Zelensky after a dispute in military tactics. CNN is unable to confirm this report.
Zelensky’s desire to fire his commanding general is the result, some Americans believe, of his knowledge that Zaluzhny had continued to participate—whether directly or through aides is not known—in secret talks since last fall with American and other Western officials on how best to achieve a ceasefire and negotiate an end to the war with Russia. It was those talks that led Zaluzhny to declare to the Economist that the war was stalemated. Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians. Ukraine, of course, would need renewed funding from the Biden administration to do so. It is not clear that Republicans in Congress are prepared to finance another counteroffensive, but there is little doubt that the Biden administration would lobby hard for the funds. (On Thursday, the EU approved funding for Ukraine in excess of 50 billion euros.)
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-president-vs-the-general
Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians.
horrifying. under the circumstances, how could you think of doing this to your long suffering people.
and yet, the unnecessary deaths this brings about will be added to the list of communist deaths within a decade
Zelensky is such a sack of shit. Throwing hundreds of thousands of people into the meat grinder in the name of a war that will end in defeat anyway, for the sake of western profits.
Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians.
Killing another generation off? They're going to run out sooner or later.
They already are. They are having a lot of problems mobilizing this batch and can’t find enough people
Dear god, he wants to stop the killing! Fire that man immediately, the blood must flow!
Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians.
jesus christ, man
Zelensky tries 2 years too late to prevent the inevitable azovite stab in the back myth
too much coke, dude. your brain can only handle the flood of dopamine so long before you start really believing your own hype.
a soft coup would just be locking zelensky in a room and cut him off for like 3 days
I get the appeal, the only time I was into map games was when I was doing a lot of blow.
When im on adderall I apparently get euphoric feel good dopamine feelings that other people don't get because it felt literally the exact same as the one time i tried cocaine and anyway my point is it definitely helps me focus on my map games
First as farce then as a yet unknown (yet likely highly comedic) coup-borne phenomenon in cyclical history
Except if Luzhie wins, then it just wraps around to tragedy. Whatever happens will at least settle the long running “loop vs. spiral” debate in marxohegelian historical analysis
Radio WarNerd has several episodes on the conflict between Zelensky and Zaluzhny. The TLDR is basically a struggle between the civilian institution and the military one. As the war progresses and society gets militarized, the former institution is being questioned.
Just warming up the public for it now at this point. Zaluzhnyi is very popular, more so than Zelensky.
This is PUTIN-ganda. Why must you spread these lies hexbear?
Ukraine is a DEMOCRACY and has no power struggles
Isn't this what we are told Putin did. Replaced all his top guys with yes men?
It’s closing in on 500,000. It’s a little higher than 450,000-460,000.
Yeah modern warfare is very deadly. Ukraine is the very definition of a transitional moment where old ways of thinking are smashed against new realities.
Yeah the war is fundamentally an artillery war, and Russia has the advantage here in terms of the sheer quantity of artillery rounds available to them from Soviet stockpiles, and their ability to manufacture ammunition at a much faster pace than the collective West.
Quantity has a quality of its own, as is often said.
Enemy at the Gates, but with artillery pieces and suicide drones.
They're running out of bodies to toss at the meat grinder.
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