For those keeping score, this is not one of the regions that Russia initially claimed when they invaded the Ukraine. They told Zelensky and his US puppet masters that all they wanted was Luhansk and Donetsk, and they would negotiate and pull troops out of every other region.
However, the US said that they were not going to negotiate under any circumstances, and so Russia just kept taking new territory.
RT:
Zaporozhye Region will hold a referendum on whether to secede from Ukraine and request joining Russia, the head of its administration announced on Monday.
Evgeny Balitskiy said that he had signed an order to organize the plebiscite during a regional forum held in the city of Melitopol. Over 700 representatives from various parts of the Ukrainian region approved the idea, according to RIA Novosti.
Earlier comments by administration officials indicated the referendum may be held as soon as mid-September.
Russian forces took partial control of the region during the initial offensive against Ukraine launched in late February. The eponymous city located in the north of the region on the Dnepr River remains under Ukrainian control.
Officials in Kherson Region, another Russia-controlled part of Ukraine, voiced similar plans to put to a vote the proposal of breaking away from Kiev and seeking to join Russia.
This whole fake war has been kind of like slapstick humor. The original joke was that somehow the Ukraine was going to “win the war” against Russia, which was always retarded on its face.
I think the Ukraine government is still saying they’re going to get a new army and win the war? I don’t know, I haven’t really been following these statements over the last month or two. Whatever the case, the Ukraine – which is a total puppet of the US State Department – is definitely continuing to refuse any form of negotiations. Russia’s response is that they will just keep taking land until there are negotiations. They are also saying that they are not going to surrender any land they take in any future negotiations.
From when the war started, up through the first several months of the war, the Ukraine could have negotiated a surrender and only given up Donetsk and Luhansk (and also signed a treaty saying they won’t join NATO or the EU, ever). Now, Putin has altered the deal, and if they were to surrender, they would lose a huge portion of the east of the country, and also have to sign the treaties to not join these globalist global domination blood pacts.
For those who don’t understand, that current battle line is the last urban area before the fields. After the Ukraine line collapses – which it is probably going to do within the next month – Russia can just make a beeline to the river, moving as fast as their trucks can move.
Here’s the population density map:
There will be little to no urban warfare once those current front lines collapse, until the Russians reach the cities and towns on the river itself.
Now would be the perfect time to surrender. Of course, every time since the war began would have been the perfect time to surrender.
The Pentagon apparently told the State Department that this would turn into an Afghanistan type situation where the Ukrainians were taking up arms against the “Russian occupiers.” However, there has been zero indication of any kind of partisan action at all in Russian-occupied territory, and all evidence we can see shows that the Ukrainians prefer Russian occupation to Ukraine occupation.
This is not Afghanistan, and in fact it has no parallels at all with Afghanistan. It is the opposite of Afghanistan, where the overwhelming majority of the population is siding with the Russians, and no one who is against the Russians has the energy to even protest the invasion, let alone take up arms against the alleged occupiers.
It’s all very ridiculous and hilarious. It is just incredible how bad US strategy actually is.
Now, of course, the US is pivoting to China, because the war in the Ukraine is so obviously lost. China is actually a more formidable enemy. So the situation is similar to when the US pivoted from war in Afghanistan to war against Russia.
“We’re losing against this enemy, so let’s cut and run and then attack a more difficult enemy.”
This is not good strategy. I play open-world RPG games, and when you cut and run from a battle, you find an easier battle to fight, so you can level up your characters and get ready for a more difficult battle. If you were playing an RPG, there is no situation where you would flee a battle to go fight a more difficult battle.
These people should have watched the Divinity: Original Sin II tactician mode instructional materials.