Tuesday 13 August 2024

Zelensky wants to topple Putin!!!

The embattled, ever-optimistic president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, appears to think that his troops now fighting inside Russia can push on and topple Putin from power. This is clearly cloud cuckoo land unless... Unless the US and the whole of the coalition of nations supporting Kyiv backs Ukraine to try and effect regime-change in Moscow. And that's never going to happen. Indeed, the US claims to be in full support of Ukraine's current incursions into Russia to give Moscow a taste of its medicine, but the Ukrainian units now holding 1,000 square kilometres of Russian territory in Kursk have neither the capability, nor manpower, nor Western backing, nor deep-strike weapons to get anywhere near Moscow. It's a foolhardy venture even though the West seems secretly pleased that Putin is getting a shock of his life. At some point, if for logistical reasons alone, the Ukrainian troops will have to withdraw, having made the point that cross-border incursions are now going to be part of Kyiv's tactics for the future.The fact is, whatever Zelensky dreams of achieving, the West has no interest in regime-change in Moscow. Not that they wouldn't like to see Putin retire to his fancy dacha, but since that is not going to happen, no one anywhere in the 50-nation coalition is going to back Zelensky to topple Putin. It's a total non-starter. So the current incursions by Ukraine are good for morale, good for lifting spirits, but ultimately foolish and pointless, and dangerous.

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