Zelenskyy will present ‘victory plan’ to US president during trip to Washington next week, when he is also likely to hold talks with Trump
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to carry out long-range strikes inside Russia with US-supplied weapons, and to earn “a place in history” by “strengthening Ukraine” before he leaves office.
Speaking before a crucial trip next week to Washington, where he will meet Biden and the US vice-president and presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, and address the UN, Zelenskyy said he would present a “victory plan” to end the war.
His vision for a “just peace” has not been made public. But in a media briefing with the Observer in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said it involved carrying out deep strikes with western missiles inside Russia – something London and Washington have so far refused.
Also, I genuinely do not believe they will do anything about Putin, for a long time.
Russians, are weird. They now see Putin as idempotent to Russia, they are the same thing.
10 years ago things would be different, but now he’s just been in charge too long, and he’s either the only leader people know, or the only decent leader they know (he was a huge improvement in the 2000s in their opinion, he picked Russia off of the dirt).
It’s not just fear of him, Russia fears what they would be without him, they aren’t like us, they don’t think most people are generally trustworthy and decent, they think everybody other than them is corrupt and cheating, Putin is actually the best of the bunch, and if he’s cruel, well you have to be cruel to keep the others in line.
We need to convince him to give up on Ukraine because otherwise they’ll be too weak when China decides to start taking bites.