re: Breaking via nypost: Ukraine tells WH it is 90% on board with peace deal

Zelensky needs to put up or shut up. Otherwise, he will be on his own.

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just what they call ‘de jure’ and ‘de facto,'”

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The frick

frick Ukraine. I hope Trump walks away. Accept it as a loss and cut Americas losses. Let Ukraine and Europe deal with it.

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But as I understand it our problem is not just mining the materials but refining them into useful forms and that's apparently very difficult. That's where China has the world by the balls, and it isn't just the US.

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The excessive federal regulations in the US is what makes refining them " difficult " and not cost effective to do here in the US.

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Anyone taking Zelensky seriously at this point is retarded

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LSURussian would literally suck Zelensky’s dick

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And here is the cargo pants derangement. EVERY body exchange the last few months....the Russians are delivering 12 times as many as the Ukranians are returning.

Every liberal rag runs stories about how its Ukraine throwing old men, handicapped men, etc to the front lines.

The Russians have 10 times the artillery of Ukranians, why on earth would they rush the front lines nakedly?

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Can't speak to being a liberal, I'm a Goldwater/Buckley Republican.

As far as the 'advantages' the Russians have, ehhh, no. The Russians are down to a 2/3 to 1 advantage in artillery, and since it's coming from North Korea, whose reliability is beyond suspect it's believed to be barely even. The Russians are almost out of armor and APC's and don't have the capacity to keep up with production so that's why they are sending out their infantry in golf carts, or 'naked' as you say. Doesn't matter anyway - the defenders in a force-on-force war enjoy a 6-1 advantage over the attacking force, so that's why Russians manpower advantages haven't yielded any real results over the past 3 years. That, and, yeah, the age thing makes it harder to perform - I should know. But hey, that's what the Russians have always done, historically speaking, for better or for worse, so why stop now?

But that's not the worst of it for them. Right now, the Ukrainians are expected to produce around 5M drones this year to Russia's 10-15K and the drones account for about 80% of the Ukrainian kills on the battlefield and rising - they tripled the number of Artillery systems destroyed in the month of March alone. Add to that the fact the F-16's are up and running and starting to slice up the Russian Command-and-Control, logistics, communications, etc. and the Ukrainians hold the cards, no matter who tells you what.

Russia, to put it politely, is F*cked.

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90% means 0%

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Yep.

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So Ukraine does not need us. Great! When do they start paying us back?

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Since the Russians are our #2 Geopolitical Rival behind only the Chinese (and the Chinese have been watching this whole thing) that they've done all the heavy lifting to beat our adversary. I don't argue with the President on that one - it's been a smart, if possibly shortsighted, approach to get the Ukrainians to do all of our dirty work for us. That, and as an old dismounted Infantryman, it's been FUN to watch our old Bradley's with half a dozen combat tours between them FUK UP Russian T-90's; that platform never got enough credit. God knows the Ukrainians' have put them to good use, God bless'em.

But the smart play isn't to demand reimbursement from them - he's wrong on that front. The smart play is to build the relationship and continue to work through them to increase American hegemony at a fraction of the price - that's where the money comes from.

The plan should be to dump all of our the combat equipment off on our allies like it was a Salvation Army donation, let them kick the sh!t out of our rivals while kissing our arses for the support, and then work through them to support a world order that not only puts us at the center of world investment - we get 70% of all investment in the world right now - but does so on our currency as the reserve. They money that comes in from foreign investment - ESPECIALLY THROUGH BONDS - utterly crushes the nickels and dimes that go out to foreign aid right now.

THAT's the play right now. Wish somebody actually understood that.

Z leaving some wiggle,room for,his handlers to up the ante

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It will be very interesting if liberals in America turn on Zelenskyy if he agrees to a peace deal they deem ls inadequate

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jfc, that's your take on this? American liberals' responses?

Some of you are just so eaten up with this stupid TDS/OMB shite, your brains have turned to mush.