From article Even amid murderous Russian raids, western apathy is Kyiv’s deadliest foe. Simon Tisdall. November 27, 2022.
Putin’s missiles are raining down on Ukrainians, but the BIGGEST DANGER UKRAINE FACES IS WEAKENING SUPPORT FROM THE US AND EUROPE.
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A two-day-old baby is killed in an attack on a maternity ward in southern Ukraine.
Officials say at least 437 children have died since Russia’s invasion began. More than 800 have been injured.
EVERY DAY, VLADIMIR PUTIN GETS AWAY WITH MURDER.
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The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station is shelled again, despite repeated UN warnings of Europe-wide catastrophe.
In liberated Kherson, more grisly evidence of war crimes is uncovered. Wherever the Russians go, it’s the same horror story.
Every day the killers go unpunished.
Relentless waves of indiscriminate missile strikes darken Ukrainian skies, pulverising apartment blocks, clinics, shopping centres and schools.
MOSCOW NO LONGER EVEN PRETENDS TO TARGET THE MILITARY.
ITS AIM: TO TERRORISE CIVILIANS.
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Destroying electricity, heat and water supplies to the main cities, already suffering food and medicine shortages, is key to Putin’s winter war.
He strives to break Ukraine’s will, imperiling millions besieged by snow and ice.
Every day, he perpetrates crimes against humanity.
Russia’s red-handed army of homicidal generals, incompetent field commanders, out-of-control soldiers and hapless conscripts is ATTEMPTING GENOCIDE – ANNIHILATION OF A NATION AND A PEOPLE – IN PLAIN SIGHT.
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THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTED LAST WEEK TO DECLARE RUSSIA A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.
Good. Now order Putin’s arrest!
Issue warrants for the president and all his gang.
Expel his lying diplomats. Penalise his pals.
Close the borders. Or is this feelgood Euro-posturing?
The question is rhetorical. You know the answer.
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As blacked-out Moldova warned last week, another huge humanitarian and migrant crisis looms, akin to that of last spring.
It will challenge every EU country.
Yet as the strain of multiple Ukraine-related problems begins to tell, European support may be faltering at this critical juncture.
THE WAR AND ITS ATROCITIES ARE BEING NORMALISED and, increasingly, discounted.
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Where is the outrage now? Where the visceral fury?
Nine months in, western public opinion is dulled, deadened and desensitised by a daily diet of remote, unceasing, almost routine carnage.
People are no longer shocked, nor even greatly surprised.
They feel powerless. The majority still wants Ukraine to prevail.
Victory is not expected soon.
IN THE ABSENCE OF PEACE TALKS OR ANY RELIEF, WAR FATIGUE TEETERS TOWARDS APATHY.
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In Italy and Germany, far-right voices complain they are “fed up” with the war’s costly knock-on effects.
Protests against the stand-off with Moscow pockmark central Europe. CONFLICTED FELLOW TRAVELLERS GIVE PUTIN LEAVE TO CARRY ON KILLING.
It’s only November. For everyone, the worst of winter is yet to come.
And there are limits to how often Kyiv can repair damaged pylons, cables and power plants. As soon as they are fixed, missiles blow them apart. “Invincibility shelters” can only do so much.
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NATO countries have provided generous billions in financial aid and weapons systems to Ukraine.
But the pace is slowing.
The EU’s latest sanctions package has been repeatedly diluted and delayed.
It is bickering over a Russian oil price cap.
THE WEST IS STRUGGLING TO MEET UKRAINE’S DESPERATE NEED FOR ANTI-MISSILE DEFENCES.
Stocks of Stinger, S-300, Nasams, Hawk and Starstreak missiles are low. Supplies of more sophisticated systems, such as American Patriots and Germany’s Iris-T, are limited by production and training issues.
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The Ukrainian people are a formidable force.
They have shown they can beat their enemies.
But should they fear their friends?
A WEAKENING OF US AND EUROPEAN SUPPORT, LEAVING UKRAINE OUT IN THE COLD, IS PERHAPS THE MOST DISMAYING HAZARD THEY FACE.
Putin is counting on it.
Might the peoples of the west, for the sake of a quiet life, really get “fed up” with the war to the point where they are ready to ignore or even tolerate mass murder, war crimes and the evisceration of a sovereign nation as the new normal?
It’s democracy’s biggest test.
Every day, it gets harder in Ukraine. One thing is certain: it’s going to be a long winter.
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“Victory is not expected soon. In the absence of peace talks or any relief, war fatigue teeters towards apathy.”
Russia wants to keep at least some Ukraine territory, and Ukraine vows to not quit fighting until it regains all Ukrainian territory.
No room for peace discussions?
How about:
Both sides declare an end of hostilities armistice.
Russia to keep Crimea and the Ukraine east areas it now occupies, under a 20 year lease.
After 20 years internationally supervised elections to decide whether Russia or Ukraine will attain ownership of the Russia-occupied Ukrainian territories.
Until then Russia is suspended from the United Nations or at least suspended from the Security Council.
Ukraine immediately joins NATO.
Russia gas supplies resume.
Russia pays for damages to Ukraine from resumed gas exports profits.
Putin to be given amnesty.
Fundamentally it is no matter who owns or occupies the Ukrainian territories now occupied by Russia.
Eventually and ultimately, hopefully soon, tHAT expanded renewed reinvigorated USA model – one language, one currency, free goods, people, and assets movement – will envelope the world.
Countries and divisions of countries, including the Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine, and Russia itself, will become (as if) U.S. states: friendly not violent competitors.
In the end Putin may be seen as one of the greatest HATters: the ultimate negative-side world-changing fire-inspirer.
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