Exposing the fraud of Ukraine’s war with the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the surrender of some 2,000 Ukrainian military at the Avostal Steelworks. Russia had been bombing the steel plant for months, completing the seizure of the strategic port city of Mariupol. When you listen to Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky, the brave Ukrainian fighter were like “300” when a small band of Greek Spartans defeated Xerxes mighty Persian army. Well when those same fighters walked out of Azovstal Steelworks May 20, Washington, Kiev and entire Western press was silent. Zelensky won’t admit that he’s lost nearly the entire Black Sea coast to the Russian Federation. Zelensky’s “300” battle fizzled because the Ukrainian military could do nothing to save the Azovstal military unit, exposing for all to see that Mariuopol was lost to Putin.
Zelensky can’t continue to demand more U.S. cash and sophisticated weapons if they can’t get anything done. French President Emmanuel Macron, 44, and 63-year-old German Chancellor Olaf Scholz asked Putin to release the Azovstal fighters, now prisoners of war. But on what basis should Putin heed Macron and Scholz’s demands? Putin spent months trying to conquer Mariupol with the last pocket of resistance, which was really no resistance at all, hidden in the Steelwork’ internal labyrinth. Zelensky promised the world that the brave Azovstal fighter would defeat the Russian Federation. So the world sees that Zelensky never tells the truth about the so-called progress in the war, with Putin sealing off nearly the entire Black Sea coast. Zelesnky fears clearly that if his people—and the world—knows that he’s badly losing the war there would be no incentive to keep going.
Macron and Scholz asked Putin to lift the blockade on the port of Odessa, so Ukrainian wheat shipments could go out to market. But how realistic is it while the U.S. and Kiev prosecute a war against the Russian Federation.to expect concessions from Putin? Kremlin officials believe the U.S. fights proxy war against the Russian Federation using Ukrainian fighters. President Joe Biden, 79, and his 68-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have admitted that the aim of the Ukraine War is to weaken the Russian army to the point it can no longer wage war. Well, if that’s not a declaration of war on the Russian Federation then what is? Macron and Scholz need to go back to Biden as ask what he’s trying to accomplish by supplying Ukraine unlimited arms-and-cash. As long as the war against the Russian Federation goes on, Putin’s no going to make any concessions to Ukraine.
White House and Western press have given a fake message that they’re winning the war against the Russian Federation. Biden and Zelensky insist that Ukraine’s brave military drove the Russian army out of Kiev. But there’s zero evidence that Putin did anything other that execute his plan to control Donbas, now locking-down the strategic Black Sea coast. If Zelensky and Biden were honest, they’d admit that Ukraine has been partitioned by the Russian Federation, controlling nearly the entire Black Sea coast. No mention was made by Kiev and Washington that Mariupol was lost to Putin. Hiding undeniable losses and highlighting Russian failures hides the fact that Putin is firmly in control of the strategic Black Sea coast. Watching Azovstal Steelworks surrender was barely reported in the Western press, hidden because it doesn’t fit Zelensky and Biden’s narrative about beating the Russian army.
If Zelensky and Biden want to change the direction of the war, they need to get to the peace table in Istanbul and try to negotiate a peace deal. All the talk about beating the Russian military is pure war propaganda, designed to deceive the Ukrainian people into thinking the military is making progress evicting occupying forces. When it comes to a truthful narrative, there’s no question that Putin has completed most of his objective in Ukraine, creating a corridor from Russia to the Crimean Peninsula. Zelensky had no control of Donetsk, Luhansk and the Crimean Peninsula before the Feb. 24 invasion. Zelensky’s gamble to keep fighting the Russian Federation to get all his land back has backfired, letting Putin partition Ukraine, controlling the Black Sea coast. When the Ukraine public sees Zelensky’s failure, he’ll no longer be seen as a war hero but a complete fool for wreaking havoc on Ukraine.
Macron and Scholz need to meet with Zelensky and get real about Ukraine’s losses under his leadership. Had Zelensky accepted Putin’s conditions for ending the conflict two months ago, accepting the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and
Russian sovereignty over Crimea, the Ukraine war would have stopped. But no, at some point Biden decided he would challenge the Russian army by supplying unlimited arms-and-cash to Kiev. Well, if Biden and Zelensky were honest about the war’s progress, they’d admit that Zelensky has lost most of Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. With that kind of strategic failure, beyond the fall of Mariupol, how can the U.S., NATO or EU have any confidence in Zelensky? When you look at the map of Russian-controlled territory in Donbas, it tells the real story of how Zelensky has failed. Zelensky gambled and lost, now must pay the price.
