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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would like to end the war with Russia next year through "diplomatic means" as both countries prepare for President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House.

In an interview with the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne, Zelenskyy said he is certain that the war will end "sooner" than it otherwise would have once Mr. Trump becomes president.

The prospect of Trump returning to power in the United States next year has raised questions about the future of the conflict, as the Republican has been critical of U.S. military aid to Kyiv.

Zelenskyy said that Ukraine "must do everything so that this war ends next year, ends through diplomatic means."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

lmao the war in ukraine really was just a Democrat political project

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

And their response to the genocide and pogroms in Palestine proved their hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i wonder if it was an american military industrial complex fueled excuse to create a new profit stream in a new proxy war between russia and nato.

ukraine is perfect because the russians will never give them up for a myriad of reasons and that guarantees that american military contractors will be able to milk profits from ukraine as a proxy battleground country for as long as both russia and the united states exist; longer than any of us here today.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sanctions applied by the west have been the best thing that could have happened to the Russian economy in decades. Their import substitution policy accelerated and even after the war they will now have competitive industries that wouldn't have been considered economically viable had Russia continued to buy cheaper goods from the west. I sometimes think the continuation of the war is collusion by the US and Russia to keep both of their economies doing great at the expense of Europe, who are too busy with their hubris to realise they're getting screwed here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i wonder how much of that economic progress will remain after the ukranian war.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It turns out actually making things is an important part of the economy and i don't think their increasing manufacturing capacity is going anywhere. And if the sanctions end it's even easier to keep making oil money

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Russian ruling class would need to disabuse themselves of neoliberal dogmas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

in that case: i wonder how much "soviet union" is still lives in russia and whether or not there's enough to keep the economic progress from vanishing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Well no, this has been a bipartisan project stretching back decades. Brzezinski Mapped Out the Battle for Ukraine in 1997

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

and the EU vassals went with it blindly

[–] GhiLA 1 points 1 week ago

Because Trump won?

...we're jumping to conclusions a bit, aren't we?