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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to send out a firm message of defiance.

When we met this weekend in the government headquarters in Kyiv, he said that far from losing, Ukraine would end the war victorious. He was firmly against paying the price for a ceasefire deal demanded by President Vladimir Putin, which is withdrawing from strategic ground that Russia has failed to capture despite sacrificing tens of thousands of soldiers.

Putin, Zelensky told me, has already started World War Three, and the only answer was intense military and economic pressure to force him to step back.

"I believe that Putin has already started it. The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him... Russia wants to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves."

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[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 29 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Putin wants to, but can't. Ue doesn't have the economy to sustain a war on that scale. He hopes to destabilise NATO, the EU and the US (and has had quite a bit of success) so he can pick us off one by one.

The way to stop him is to stay united and ensure victory for Ukraine. A victory for Putin would only empower him.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

He hopes to destabilise NATO, the EU and the US (and has had quite a bit of success) so he can pick us off one by one.

Exactly why he and his cult sees excitement in the failings of the West, so that once their enemies are weakened, the rest of the world would bow to him and Mainland China.

[–] join@lemmy.ml 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Let’s get a grand alliance together to stop Putin and his axis of evil, no more p*ssyfooting around. Make Ukraine part of Nato, activate article 5, and unify the fronts. One giant war all the way from the Baltics over Teheran to Taiwan and Korea. That will show him for starting WW3.

[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

My friend, you woke up and chose pure controversy.

[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

Mail complaints and viceral disgust directly to the gremlins in the kremlin. Overnight express, if one can afford the postage.