The levels of ignorance amongst Ukrainians regarding the conflict and its origins still takes me by surprise. I have an inkling that the tide of opinion is turning now in the west regarding support for US/NATO propaganda in general and people are becoming more amenable to question what they’ve been told to believe, but I see none of that amongst Ukrainians. Maybe it’s just a small sample size I have.
There’s a lack of reflection too, people are gloating that Russia turned back from Kiev after they inked the deal with Boris to bring in like 200,000 more bodies.
Why?? Because at the time you could claim it wouldn’t be for nothing? Jesus Christ!!!
Gotta be the strongest example of sunken cost fallacy.
One way to victory is to stretch Putin and his army so thinly that he is forced to give up, the source said, adding that no matter what the president’s threshold for pain was, he was unable to sustain the war indefinitely. “2024 isn’t about big operational success — there’s unlikely to be a big breakthrough this year. 2024 is about stretching Putin into 2025 and beyond — effectively calling his bluff and testing his resolve,” the source said.
Mykhailo Chaplyha, a political commentator and former vice-ombudsman of Ukraine, said he believed most people in Ukraine wanted a truce but were “afraid to admit it to themselves”. He said there was an atmosphere of “total mistrust and fear” in Ukraine and that anyone who dared to think of a truce would immediately become an “outcast and a traitor”. One Ukrainian former official said that President Zelensky was losing support in Ukraine and that although the West was saying Ukraine should not give up, there was no war strategy and men and women were being “sent to the front line to die”. “It is nonsense to send in our soldiers to die if we don’t have enough armament and resources to win militarily. What is the strategy, to keep us dying for what? And not less important — where is our diplomacy?” he said.
Europe’s Cannon fodder
