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Media: Putin told China's Xi Russia will fight for 'at least 5 years' in Ukraine
The Kiev Independent via Yahoo ^ | December 28th, 2023 | Dinara Khalilova, The Kyiv Independent news desk

Posted on 12/28/2023 6:51:41 PM PST by Mariner

Russian leader Vladimir Putin allegedly told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a meeting in March that Russia planned to continue its war against Ukraine for "at least five years," Nikkei Asia reported on Dec. 28, citing its anonymous sources.

The article follows media reports suggesting that Putin may be ready for a ceasefire in case Russia keeps the territories it illegally occupies in Ukraine, while the West's strategy on supporting Ukraine is leaning towards preparing conditions for Kyiv-Moscow talks.

In its analytical piece, Nikkei Asia wrote that Putin's words to Xi were apparently his way of summarizing a situation on the battlefield that was at that time unfavorable for Russia and assuring the Chinese leader that Russia would eventually win the war.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014; putinbot
Russia has been consistent on this.

They will fight until they prevail decisively.

But it's certain the US won't be in it that long.

1 posted on 12/28/2023 6:51:41 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Russia knows that breaking a nation’s will to fight first looks like a little blemish, then a small crack.

Finally, a shattered windshield.


2 posted on 12/28/2023 6:58:55 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

“They will fight until they prevail decisively.”

There is no plan. For some reason not known to me Putin thought he had to fight a hot war.


3 posted on 12/28/2023 7:12:37 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Mariner

WWI ended with an armistice.


4 posted on 12/28/2023 7:14:20 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Mariner

All for

Viral marxism

Dnc liberal diversity

Pc superiority - supremacy

What a waste


5 posted on 12/28/2023 7:17:57 PM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: Brian Griffin

It was called an Armistice, but it amounted to unconditional surrender by the Central Powers.


6 posted on 12/28/2023 7:35:55 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Mariner

Looks like the “Mariner” cell of the troll farm has been reactivated.


7 posted on 12/28/2023 7:56:19 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik

You’re an idiot
and everyone here knows it


8 posted on 12/28/2023 8:07:18 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Like the Czars government they will find opposition from their own people. Putin may fight 5 years but, his people won’t. The long suffering people of Russia will only accept so much.


9 posted on 12/29/2023 8:32:01 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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“The long suffering people of Russia will only accept so much.”

You sound like a Russian political expert.

Or, a wishful thinker.


10 posted on 12/29/2023 9:49:48 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: amnestynone
Like the Czars government they will find opposition from their own people. Putin may fight 5 years but, his people won’t. The long suffering people of Russia will only accept so much.

The Russians have a 'cursed capacity for suffering' as was pointed out in Dr. Zhivago.

11 posted on 12/29/2023 9:51:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Look at Russian history and you will see a history of revolts when the wars go on and on or they lose. You don’t have to be an expert on Russian history. The whipped cur comes out in the long run.


12 posted on 12/29/2023 3:47:53 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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