Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to airwaves this time warning about an impeding famine catastrophe because Ukraine’s last port city of Odessa can’t get its grain out with a Russian blockade. “If we don not export in the coming months, if there are no political agreements with Russia through intermediaries—there will be famine, there will be a catastrophe, there will be a deficit, there will be a high price,” Zelensky said. Zelensky’s evolved into a master propagandist, telling the world that Russia is poised to take over all of Europe, that Putin’s committing genocide against the Ukrainian people, that Russia tries to destroy democracy, that Putin used biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, all suggest his current warning carries little weight. Zelensky decided to take on the Russian Federation not negotiate a settlement that worked for both countries.
Accepting $40 billion in U.S. aid and unlimited lethal weapons, Zelensky has covered up the truth about the war. Zelensky and 79-year-old President Joe Biden, insist that Ukraine has whipped the Russian Federation, except the maps of Russian-controlled territory tell a different story. Whether admitted to or not by Zelensky and Biden, Putin has managed to partition Ukraine, sealing Kiev off from its strategic Black Sea coast. Zelensky, Biden and the U.S. propaganda is so thick, so twisted, so distorted, that the Ukrainian and American people don’t know the truth. When Mairiopol fell after the Azovstal Steelworks surrendered May 20, there was no mention by Kiev, Washington or the U.S. press. Today, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholf asked Putin to return some 2,000 prisoners of war captured at the Azovstal Steelworks plant.
Zelensky and Biden can’t admit that the war against the Russian Federation has been a complete failure. Putin now controls nearly the entire Black Sea cost, far more territory than when the war started Feb. 24. Bidien and Zelensky chose to go to war with the Russian Federation, no resolve the issues at the peace table in Istanbul. But with Ukraine losing so much land, Zelensky’s management of the war has been a disaster, no other way to put it. Putin gave Zelensky an out two months ago saying Ukraine must recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, and recognize Crimea as sovereign territory. Zelensky and Biden told Putin, “no way,” choosing instead to escalate the war, believing that the more advance U.S. equipment, the more likely they could force Putin into surrender, a preposterous fantasy. Putin has methodically partitioned Ukraine, seizing almost all of the Black Sea coast.
Zelensky has lost Mariuopol, Berdiansky and Skadovsk, and Kherson in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. Zelensky blew more smoke in Davos, at the World Economic Forum. “You can unblock them in different ways. One of the way is a military solution. That is why we turn to our partners with inquiries regarding relevant weapons,” Zelensky said, not admitting that he’s lost the battle for Ukraine’s ports, leaving Kiev essentially land-locked. Zelensky always says he needs more weapons. He won’t admit that no matter what weapons he’s received from the U.S. and NATO, he hasn’t be able to hold back Russian forces from seizing the Black Sea coastline. Zelensky wants to get out Ukraine’s grain products but continues to battle the Russian Federation with the hope of forcing Putin out of office. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia of “weaponizing food “to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people.”
If the Ukrainian people are demoralized, it’s because Zelensky has made very bad decisions since the start of the war. Whatever blockade Russia has on the port of Odessa, it’s because the two countries are at war. Putin isn’t likely to take his foot off the gas unless the U.S. and Ukraine make direct peace overtures, including ending all Russian sanctions. “As a result of the Russian government actions, some 20 millions tons of grain sit unused in Ukrainian silos as global food supplies dwindle, prices skyrocket, causing more around the world to experience food insecurity,” Blinken said. If Blinken cared about “food insecurity” he’d do everything possible to pressure Zelensky to the peace table in Istanbul. As long as the U S. fights a proxy war with the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the U.S. can’t expect Putin make peace. Russia has left Odessa alone, other than the blockade in the port.
U.K, and Ukraine won’t admit that their war against the Russian Federation has failed, creating more destruction and carnage, but more importantly, using priceless land on the Black Sea coast. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 98, said yesterday at Davos that Ukraine most negotiate and end to the conflict to get back its lost territory. Zelensky gambled he could bring the Russian army to its knees, and he lost his bet. Putin has seized almost allof Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, without any prospects of getting it back. If Zelensky could have rescued his fighters at Azovstal Steelworks, he would have but he didn’t. Zelensky continues to blow smoke at Davos that all he needs is more weapons to beat back the Russian army. After three months of war, it’s clear that Zelensky gambled away Ukraine’s strategic Black Sea coast. Ukrainians must figure out what’s really happened in Ukraine before it’s too late.
