A stronger alliance with India would make a lot of sense. Of course, the BRICS (including India) are only being pulled/drawn further together by this war. I
ndia's trade with Russia has grown suddenly to a record level, as well as with
China (up over 30 percent).
To the post above yours, yes, many 'leaders' over the years have happily 'sacrificed' hundreds of thousands of their subjects in furtherance of their own power. The list is too long to even start (it includes many Russians/erstwhile 'Ukrainian' leaders of the past), but there's no real reason to presume Zelensky is more ethical than those, or unwilling to do so. He's happily ordered conscripts into the meat grinder just like Putin, over a pile of rubble for instance in Bakhmut, without seeking a ceasefire. In his brief history there is much brutality, if often ignored in certain media.
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It honestly astounds me that a functioning adult can honestly think that the leadership of Ukraine is willing to sacrifice 100,000 citizens, stolen children, razed cities, destroyed infrastructure, stolen rich ag lands and ports, and to top it off have Russia go along with it at a cost of a decimated military.
Well, about that;
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Western media has looked the other way, however, as Zelensky and top officials in his administration have sanctioned a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination of local Ukrainian lawmakers accused of collaborating with Russia. Several mayors and other Ukrainian officials have been killed since the outbreak of war, many reportedly by Ukrainian state agents after engaging in de-escalation talks with Russia.
"There is one less traitor in Ukraine," Internal Affairs Ministry advisor Anton Geraschenko stated in endorsement of the murder of a Ukrainian mayor accused of collaborating with Russia.
Zelensky has further exploited the atmosphere of war to outlaw an array of opposition parties and order the arrest of his leading rivals. His authoritarian decrees have triggered the disappearance, torture and even murder of an array of human rights activists, communist and leftist organizers, journalists and government officials accused of "pro-Russian" sympathies.
The Ukrainian SBU security services has served as the enforcement arm of the officially authorized campaign of repression. With training from the CIA and close coordination with Ukraine's state-backed neo-Nazi paramilitaries, the SBU has spent the past weeks filling its vast archipelago of torture dungeons with political dissidents.
On the battlefield, meanwhile, the Ukrainian military has engaged in a series of atrocities against captured Russian troops and proudly exhibited its sadistic acts on social media. Here too, the perpetrators of human rights abuses appear to have received approval from the upper echelons of Ukrainian leadership.
While Zelensky spouts bromides about the defense of democracy before worshipful Western audiences, he is using the war as a theater for enacting a blood-drenched purge of political rivals, dissidents and critics.
Better guy than Putin? Maybe, I dunno, but not someone I want to just go have a beer with, either way. Oh, and outside of all the outrage about a war crime (beheading) by a Russian unit, the
Ukes-Russians exchanged hundreds of prisoners last week. Probably not covered on the war pimp channel.
