{"id":1496987,"date":"2024-10-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1496987"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:00:00","slug":"zelenskys-unrealistic-victory-plan-is-driven-by-one-of-two-ulterior-motives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/zelenskys-unrealistic-victory-plan-is-driven-by-one-of-two-ulterior-motives\/1496987\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky’s Unrealistic “Victory Plan” Is Driven By One Of Two Ulterior Motives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zelensky’s Unrealistic “Victory Plan” Is Driven By One Of Two Ulterior Motives<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Zelensky finally presented the first five parts of his much-ballyhooed \u201cVictory Plan\u201d to the Rada on Wednesday while still\u00a0keeping three of them secret<\/a>\u00a0per his own admission. Readers can review his full speech\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and Reuters\u2019 concise summary\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upon doing either, they\u2019ll see that it\u2019s unrealistic due to Ukraine demanding: an invitation to join NATO; the joint interception of Russian missiles; and hosting \u201ca comprehensive non-nuclear strategic deterrence package\u201d on its soil, among several other demands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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All three are non-starters<\/strong> for NATO since the bloc doesn\u2019t want to get directly involved in this proxy war, which its comparatively more pragmatic policymakers\u00a0who still call the shots<\/a>\u00a0fear could easily spiral out of control into World War III, hence why nothing of the sort has happened yet. That\u2019s not to say that their hawkish rivals stand no chance of changing that, and some are speculatively working behind their governments\u2019 backs to this end, but just that Zelensky won\u2019t get what he wants unless that happens.<\/p>\n

The abovementioned calculations will likely remain constant seeing as how they\u2019ve been in place for over two and a half years so far, which he\u2019s keenly aware of, thus raising the question of what he sought to achieve by making such demands from his partners that have already been rejected. The argument can be made that he was driven by one of two ulterior motives: hint at what he wants after possibly \u201cescalating to de-escalate\u201d in the near future or sow the seeds for a \u201cstab-in-the-back\u201d theory.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Regarding the first, this could take the form of a\u00a0nuclear provocation<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0attacking Belarus<\/a>, while the second was coincidentally lent credence two days prior to Zelensky\u2019s speech by the Royal United Services Institute in an article about \u201cThe Impending Betrayal of Ukraine<\/a>\u201d. \u00a0These scenarios could be averted if the G7 agrees to comply with at least some of his military demands in exchange for being allowed to extract Ukraine\u2019s critical mineral riches like one of the points of his \u201cVictory Plan\u201d strongly suggests.<\/p>\n

That implied proposal builds upon what he promised the G7 in May 2022, which was analyzed\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0at the time and followed up on in February 2024\u00a0here<\/a>, the point being that there\u2019s a precedent for him offering up his country for sale in exchange for getting what he wants. If these critical mineral riches don\u2019t tempt the West into fulfilling at least part of his \u201cVictory Plan\u201d, and it was explained above why they probably won\u2019t, then he\u2019ll likely resort to either of the two backup plans that were discussed.<\/p>\n

The takeaway from what he just revealed is that ulterior motives are clearly at play since his main demands have already been rejected.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even the innuendo that Ukraine\u2019s critical mineral riches could be swapped for supposedly game-changing military support might not get the West to reconsider since it\u00a0fears an uncontrollable escalation sequence<\/a>\u00a0with nuclear-armed Russia.<\/p>\n

That being the case, observers should expect him to soon \u201cescalate to de-escalate\u201d or pin the blame for Ukraine\u2019s defeat on the West.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 10\/18\/2024 – 05:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zelensky’s Unrealistic “Victory Plan” Is Driven By One Of Two Ulterior Motives Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Zelensky finally presented the first five parts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1496988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}