President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has emphasised that the speed of war ending directly depends on Ukraine?s support by the international community.

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    When UK’s Secretary of State for Defence publicly says “If Putin loses in Ukraine”

    The guy who is stepping down due to backlash over his ridiculous statements of late? Quite the opposite is the reality here. The only thing NATO is concerned about at this point is the Nukes. Every other concern is like a Parent being concerned their toddler might throw a tantrum. Changes nothing. The child gets punished for its bad behaviour regardless.

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      Politicians are the talking heads here. Our military leadership, in at least the oldest of the NATO states, know exactly what they’re doing. The military, in the US at least, doesn’t talk to the public except through the president, or very few, select press hearings with very high-level brass, and what they say is almost always directed at the international opposition (China and Russia) and as such never reflects the true strategy. I fully believe that NATO is maneuvering to destabilize Russia, and that their goal is regime change.

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        I fully believe that NATO is maneuvering to destabilize Russia

        NATO is acting after loads of Russian aggression. Above sounds too much like the Russian talking point that Russia somehow is a victim and was somehow forced to annex the various regions over the last 20 years or so.

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            While the WW2 comparisons are of course not perfect they’re still certainly interesting to make. Appeasement seems to have had very similar results. Both Germany and Japan also miscalculated when they thought the western powers would be willing to just sue for peace at certain points (Germany thought Britain would give up the fight and go for peace talks once France fell and Japan thought USA would if taking their occupied areas back would be costly enough).