White House talking points on the Ukraine War has made a bad situation worse hyping Ukraine’s “heroic” resistance against the Russian juggernaut. But instead of helping Ukraine’s military campaign, President Joe Biden promotes the fake narrative to the Western press that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “angry and frustrated” with the progress of the war. CIA Director William Burns, using the vaunted Intel Agency, profoundly declares March 8 that Putin is “angry and frustrated,” because he wasn’t able to conquer all of Ukraine’s major cities in three days. So the White House narrative has damaged Ukraine’s resistance by leaving the international community the impression that they’re winning the war. Nothing could be further from the truth. Putin is systematically dismantling Ukraine. Ukraine’s military has fought hard but they can’t s top Putin’s methodical onslaught.
Turkey’s chief Ukraine War adviser Ibrahim Kalin told 68-yar-old Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that a face-to-face meeting between Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky and Putin would not yield any constructive results. Primed with $14 billion from the U.S. and promises of more offensive weapons, Kalin doesn’t think Zelensky’s ready to compromise on the peace table. “Zelensky is ready to meet, but Putin thinks the positions to have this meeting at the leaders’ level are not close enough yet,” Kalin said. Zelensky complains daily to the U.S. Congress and European Union that the West doesn’t get the scenario that Putin plans to knock off the rest of former Soviet satellites, either part of NATO or not. Zelensky says the West has appeased Putin, unwilling to set up the no-fly-zone needed to control the skies inside Ukraine’s borders.
Zelensky and his tough-talking 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba don’t want to surrender to Putin’s demands, asking for the Crimean Peninsula to be recognized by Ukraine as part of Russia. Zelensky knows, in fact, Putin controls Crimea
for the last eight years but is unwilling to hand over the deed to the Kremlin. It’s one thing to accept Putin’s illegal annexation, still another to hand the territory back to Putin. Zelensky and Kuleba keep the war going under the illusion that they can outlast Putin and eventually deal with a new Russian regime. Zelensky and Kuleba think if they can keep the war going long enough, maybe one of Russian rich oligarchs will pay for a hit on Putin. Such wishful thinks permeates Kiev’s thinking, while they watch the destruction of their country. Biden and the U.S. press doesn’t help with a narrative that Ukraine is winning the war.
Biden didn’t pay Zelensky $14 billion to fold his tent and accept Putin’s conditions for surrender. Zelensky and Kuleba are of the mindset that every man, woman and child should fight Russian occupation to the death, a kind of suicidal patriotism. “There will be a peace deal at some point. Of course, we all want this to happen sooner rather than later, but probably Putin thinks that he wants to be in a position of strength when he does that, and not appear to be weak, weakened by either military losses of by economic sanctions,” said Kalin, believing that war will go on for a while. Zelensky and Kuleba haven’t accepted that Putin follows a methodical strategy laying siege to Ukrainian cities and town, leaving the nation in ruins. Until Zelensky concludes that all is lost when it comes to beating Putin on the battlefield, the war will continues to decimate Ukraine.
Putin set clear conditions for ending the conflict, including, (1) recognizing Donetsk and Luhansk as independent territories, (2) acknowledging that Crimea is a Russian territory and (2) declaring that Ukraine is neutral, no longer pursuing NATO or European Union membership. Zelensky and Kuleba reject all of Putin’s demands, including the one related to neutrality. Zelensky and Kuleba believe it’s Ukraine right to determine its own security and affiliations. Both think Putin’s conditions force Ukraine into surrender, something Putin wants to hear. Zelensky isn’t thinking clearly believing he’ll outlast Putin if he continues to fight. “Even though we fully reject the Russian war on Ukraine, the Russian case must be heard, because after this war, there will have to be a new security architecture established between Russia and the Western block,” Kalin said, something Zelensky and Kuleba don’t accept.
Turkey understands the future of Ukraine better than Zelensky, realizing that compromise is on the horizon with the Russian Federation. Zelensky operates on the premise that Ukraine can outlast Putin in a confrontation. Zelensky and Kuleba believe White House and U.S. press propaganda that the war is going better than expected. Reporting from the ground in Ukraine tells a different s story that Ukraine’s cities and town are laid to waste, with civilians caught in the crossfire. Taking $14 billion from the U.S. to prosecute the war, Zelensky has no intent of throwing in the towel. “At the end of the day, the goal is to establish peace and security for all,” said Kalin, not buying Zelensky’s approach to fight to the bitter end. Spurred on by Biden and Congress, Zelensky has no plans of ending the war anytime soon, letting Putin decimate cities and massacre Ukraine’s civilian population.
