Bloomberg Says the West Isn’t Buying Zelensky’s Master Plan

They can’t just keep going with this.

Someone needs to explain what is going on.

RT:

Expectations should be lowered for a so-called ‘victory plan’ that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is presenting to the US and other allies this week in New York, Western officials have told Bloomberg.

People familiar with Zelensky’s conversations with his foreign leaders do not believe that the much-hyped scheme can deliver a breakthrough in the conflict with Russia, the agency reported on Tuesday.

The ‘victory plan’ does not include any “real surprises” and is not a game-changer, one source noted, while another described the initiative as nothing more than a “wish list.”

“The gloomy assessment of the plan underscores a deepening sense of pessimism among allied nations” regarding the outcome of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Bloomberg stressed.

According to the agency’s sources, at least one ally has suggested that it is “time for a new round of outreach” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, either by Zelensky or by Ukraine’s foreign backers.

Another official claimed that the West is still eager to support Kiev for as long as necessary – but that it needs clarification from the Ukrainian leader as to what peace with Moscow might look like.

That would be the British.

The ‘victory plan’ has not been made available to the public, but the Sunday Times reported that it is based on four clauses: Western security guarantees for Ukraine, similar to NATO’s principle of collective defense, a continuation of Kiev’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region to serve as a territorial bargaining chip, deliveries of “specific” advanced weapons by foreign backers, and international financial aid for Ukraine.

In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Zelensky claimed that “that we are closer to peace than we think.” However, he stressed that his scheme “is not about negotiation with Russia,” but about “the strengthening of Ukraine.”

In his address to the UN Security Council later in the day, the Ukraine leader reiterated that the conflict “cannot be calmed by talks” and that Moscow “can only be forced into peace.”

This comes after “that math” shows that the West has halved its free money to the Ukraine.

RT:

The flow of Western funds into Ukraine’s state budget has almost halved compared to last year, the Russian newspaper Vedomosti has calculated after reviewing data from Kiev’s Finance Ministry.

Between January and June this year, the US and its allies, who have been backing Kiev throughout its conflict with Moscow, financed only 27% of the country’s budget expenditure, compared to 50% in the first half of 2023, the paper said in an article on Monday.

In monetary terms, Western financial aid to Kiev decreased from $19.1 billion to $10.6 billion, during that period, Vedomosti noted.

According to the article, authorities in Kiev are expected to attract $37 billion in outside loans in 2024 to cover the budget almost entirely, but in the first half of the year they managed to receive only a quarter of that sum.

The loans are from selling the entire country to BlackRock. That’s also apparently why the war keeps going.

But it’s gotta be closing in on an ending here pretty soon. The frontlines are going to collapse.