From the moment the Israel-Hamas war was launched on October 7th, practically all talks of the Russia-Ukraine war that started in February, 2022, have fizzled-out in the media. Mainstream media no longer gives it adequate coverage if barely at all, and it no longer graces the headlines of the most popular newspapers. For all intents and purposes it would seem that the United States’ and European nation’s support has dried-out.
Only about a week into the latest Israeli conflict commenced, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking officials saw the writing on the wall, realizing that support from the West was about to try up. Lamenting that attention was being diverted away from his war, Zelensky stated:
There is a risk that international attention will turn away from Ukraine, and that will have consequences.[The tragedies affecting Ukraine and Israel] are different, but both are immense.
Around the same time Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergey Marchenko spoke at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, where he admitted that Western support was coming to a halt and making their sales pitch was getting harder.
[Kiev is having to make] twice the effort right now to convince our partners to provide us with support compared to the last annual meetings [in spring].I see a lot of tiredness, I see a lot of weakness among our partners, they would like to forget about the war but the war is still ongoing, full-scale.
He explained
U.S. President Joe Biden and Treasurer Janet Yellen have claimed that the U.S. is more than capable of funding and fighting two wars, pledging over $100 billion in new aid for Ukraine alone, though such spending package has yet to be decided upon in the Congress and Senate. Until otherwise occurs Biden’s promise remains empty.
After incessantly working to keep the American and European people enthralled with Ukraine and propagandized to support them, mainstream Western media is now finally starting to truly concede the results playing out: that Russia is winning and was going to win, and Ukraine has suffered insurmountable losses and are unable to win.
Almost one year ago TIME Magazine christened Zelensky as “Person of the Year” for 2022, heralding his bravery and tenacity in standing resolute against Russia. Now that same Time Magazine is admitting that Ukraine is lost, but Zelensky is not willing to surrender and negotiate peace, though his top aids now that they have lost.
TIME made this their most recent cover story for this upcoming November.
Time began their lengthy piece by writing,
The invitation to his speech at the National Archives in Washington had gone out to several hundred guests, including congressional leaders and top officials from the Biden Administration. Billed as the main event of his visit in late September, it would give him a chance to inspire U.S. support against Russia with the kind of oratory the world has come to expect from Ukraine’s wartime President. It did not go as planned.
That afternoon, Zelensky’s meetings at the White House and the Pentagon delayed him by more than an hour, and when he finally arrived to begin his speech at 6:41 p.m., he looked distant and agitated. He relied on his wife, First Lady Olena Zelenska, to carry his message of resilience on the stage beside him, while his own delivery felt stilted, as though he wanted to get it over with. At one point, while handing out medals after the speech, he urged the organizer to hurry things along.
Public support for aid to Ukraine has been in decline for months in the U.S., and Zelensky’s visit did nothing to revive it. Some 41% of Americans want Congress to provide more weapons to Kyiv, down from 65% in June, when Ukraine began a major counteroffensive, according to a Reuters survey taken shortly after Zelensky’s departure. That offensive has proceeded at an excruciating pace and with enormous losses, making it ever more difficult for Zelensky to convince partners that victory is around the corner. With the outbreak of war in Israel, even keeping the world’s attention on Ukraine has become a major challenge.
TIME interviewed Zelensky and some of his staffers after that speech to get their take on it.
Zelensky told TIME:
The scariest thing is that part of the world got used to the war in Ukraine. Exhaustion with the war rolls along like a wave. You see it in the United States, in Europe. And we see that as soon as they start to get a little tired, it becomes like a show to them: ‘I can’t watch this rerun for the 10th time.’
Simon Shuster for TIME asked one member of Zelensky’s inner circle how he was feeling. ‘The response came without a second’s hesitation: “Angry.”’
“Now he walks in, gets the updates, gives the orders, and walks out,” says one longtime member of his team. Another tells me that, most of all, Zelensky feels betrayed by his Western allies. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.
Shuster wrote in his piece for TIME
Even though Zelensky continues to save face and continues to grovel for support, his top advisers and aids are now saying that this war is unwinnable.
He deludes himself. We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.
One of Zelensky’s close aids told the magazine
Zelensky told Shuster that the taboo talk of peace and negotiations are not in the cards for him. “For us it would mean leaving this wound open for future generations,” he said. “Maybe it will calm some people down inside our country, and outside, at least those who want to wrap things up at any price. But for me, that’s a problem, because we are left with this explosive force. We only delay its detonation.”
I’ve long lived with this fear. A third world war could start in Ukraine, continue in Israel, and move on from there to Asia, and then explode somewhere else.
When Zelensky met with Congress members and Senators at D.C. in September, looking to secure more aid, Zelensky recalls what he told them in private:
They asked me straight up: If we don’t give you the aid, what happens? What happens is we will lose.
And now with the Winter season rolling in making any really advancement and counterattacks are going to be all the more harder, including for civilian life due to sky-high energy costs. But again Zelensky is unwilling to pause their operations and try again next Spring to make any real dent. “Freezing the war, to me, means losing it,” Zelensky explained.
Ukraine is severely running out of able-bodied men to fight and are in desperate need for ammunitions to keep going. TIME wrote:
When I raised these claims with a senior military officer, he said that some commanders have little choice in second-guessing orders from the top. At one point in early October, he said, the political leadership in Kyiv demanded an operation to “retake” the city of Horlivka, a strategic outpost in eastern Ukraine that the Russians have held and fiercely defended for nearly a decade. The answer came back in the form of a question: With what? “They don’t have the men or the weapons,” says the officer. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”
In some branches of the military, the shortage of personnel has become even more dire than the deficit in arms and ammunition. One of Zelensky’s close aides tells me that even if the U.S. and its allies come through with all the weapons they have pledged, “we don’t have the men to use them.”
Now recruitment is way down. As conscription efforts have intensified around the country, stories are spreading on social media of draft officers pulling men off trains and buses and sending them to the front. Those with means sometimes bribe their way out of service, often by paying for a medical exemption. Such episodes of corruption within the recruitment system became so widespread by the end of the summer that on Aug. 11 Zelensky fired the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country.
The decision was intended to signal his commitment to fighting graft. But the move backfired, according to the senior military officer, as recruitment nearly ground to a halt without leadership. The fired officials also proved difficult to replace, in part because the reputation of the draft offices had been tainted. “Who wants that job?” the officer asks. “It’s like putting a sign on your back that says: corrupt.”
But faced with the alternative of freezing the war or losing it, Zelensky sees no option but to press on through the winter and beyond. “I don’t think Ukraine can allow itself to get tired of war,” he says. “Even if someone gets tired on the inside, a lot of us don’t admit it.” The President least of all.
Absent from the mainstream at the time, and even now for that matter, The WinePress reported in early September that Ukraine had already lost 400,000 men in this conflict, citing an Ukrainian publication that paid tribute to these fallen 400K troops. That number has assumedly grown much more since that report was made.
Read the rest of the TIME article here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
In July U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller had a massive Freudian Slip, as many called it, where twice affirmed that “the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine.” Indeed, and now the mainstream is finally admitting it.
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Proverbs 27:14
Zelensky knows he’s lost; he knows he was always a puppet and “useful idiot” for the U.S.
Look, we knew from day one that this was a losing war and U.S. and NATO bankrolling was just going to delay the inevitable. But, many of you WinePress readers who were with me in early 2022 when this war broke out, understood this – and I was reporting on all the absurd propaganda that was coming out, so asinine many people, myself included, were even questioning if a war was even being fought altogether because the propaganda was so insane! Go back and read them if you need a refresher.
And then you have to keep in mind that there is a strong possibility that a lot of these weapons sent to Ukraine were actually sent to Hamas through the ratlines. SEE: There Is A High Probability A Lot Of Weapons Supplied To Ukraine Made Its Way To Hamas Instead
The war was a lost cause since day one, but it was used to purposefully redraw boundaries, relationships, trade agreements, and monetary systems; bankrupt the West, deplete the West of military supplies and munitions, strengthen the East as the new world order structure; and even resulting in sending many Jews back to Israel – which leads us to where we are now with the Israel-Hamas war, as the second stage of World War III, in my view.
SEE: New Study Forecasts Mass Exodus Of Jews From Europe In The Coming Years
What TIME did not want to mention is the fact that Ukraine was already one of the most corrupt countries in the world before this war was launched; and it is crawling and controlled by literal Neo-Nazis, that worship the likes of Hitler and Nazi sympathizers like Stephan Bandera.
History has a funny way of repeating itself. When it was clear Hitler was losing and refused to surrender and negotiate peace, many of his top generals and aids tried assassinating him to bring the war to an end but to no avail, and eventually led to Hitler fleeing to South America with other Nazis. With Ukraine being a Neo-Nazi state, and Zelensky unwilling to surrender, you have to wonder if attempts on Zelensky’s will start to occur, and/or eventually bails out to his beach huts and private mansions. Time will tell.
With all eyes on Israel right now, Ukraine will fade into obscurity. That being said, don’t be surprised if the U.S. does something to reignite that conflict again to justify more spending…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Zelensky did his part for the depopulation goal with 400k dead.
Remember the actor Sean Penn brought an oscar for him.
I expect a coup very soon.
“HE FEELS BETRAYED”. AFTER GETTING 144 BILLION DOLLARS, HE FEELS BETRAYED? …. HE IS FIGHTING A WAR THAT CAN’T BE WON. AFTER GETTING A;LL THAT MONEY HOW CAN HE SAY THAT?
UNGRATEFUL. HE NOW WANTS ANOTHER 100 BILLION. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MUCH OF THAT MONEY WENT IN FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS FOR HIM AND HIS GENERALS. THE SOONER WE GET RID OF OUR PRESIDENT THE BETTER OFF WE WILL BE.
A monkey in silk is still a monkey …