President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a stark message to Congress in an interview on Thursday as Russian missiles were pounding southern Ukraine: Give us the weapons to stop the Russian attacks, or Ukraine will escalate its counterattacks on Russia’s airfields, energy facilities and other strategic targets.
"give us more weapons or we're going to attack Russia"
lolwut. why wouldnt you just do that regardless? life is rough for a CIA asset who isn't allowed to surrender.
that explains the energy facilities and other strategic targets part, not sure why they would stop attacking airfields though, seems like Ukraine should want to do that either way.
What an incredible strategy, though. "If you cut off your support for us, we will launch a massive hail marry in an attempt to get Russia to initiate MAD and kill the entire world including you."
Zelensky did called for preemptive nuclear strike on Russia, but liberal media shushed that one successfully. He also appeared particularly stoned in that video, so afaik he never repeated that publicly after.
Mind you, if they can somehow scrape together another offensive and it crashes and burns as hard as the last one, I'm sure that's going to be great for whatever is left of their morale.
“We lost half a year” while Congress bickered, he said. “We can’t waste time anymore. Ukraine can’t be a political issue between the parties.” He said critics of aid for Ukraine didn’t understand the stakes in the war.
Damn if only there was some precedent to learn about what it's like to be America's proxy. This kind of political shit fighting has happened in literally every us proxy war, to the detriment of the proxy.
i can hardly wait to listen to it in a few years, while every larger gathering is in danger of being terrorist attacked by the ukro-fash, who the media is going to blame on russians
The Russians ran out of missiles and started fighting with shovels two years ago. However, as Asiatic Mongols, the Russians gain a +15 bonus to primitive weapons use.
he declared martial law and suspended elections, so the people can’t do it, and the west has been satisfied enough with his performance to not have him replaced yet
"Consolidating positions and building out defenses" thats the words... I give them to you Mr. Zelensky, free of charge. Stop getting your people deaded.
I recall reading how they haven't been building defences for basically two reasons. First, building defences is an admission that they're planning to retreat making it politically impossible, and second much funnier reason is that it's easier to embezzle the money "spending" it on other stuff.
You're missing the point, if its all about political statements and grandstanding.
The Ukrainian government doesn't need to actually build defenses, you just call, redeploying troops away from the faltering front lines "consolidating positions" and standing down the majority of the conscripts to go back to work in the civilian sector as "building out defenses". Effectively/practically declaring they've been defeated and are ending their part in the war without stating it openly.