Posted on 02/26/2024 8:09:49 AM PST by John Semmens
The 2024 presidential elections in Ukraine originally scheduled for March 31, 2024 have been postponed. The emergence of a candidate who opposes current President Zelensky's policies inspired the decision. That candidate is former Zelensky adviser Oleksiy Arestovych. He promises to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia. Ukraine's National Police force has commenced a criminal investigation of Arestovych.
While the postponement of the election would seem to contradict the contention that Ukraine is a democracy battling against an autocratic Russian adversary, advocates for carrying on with the war insist that the fight must go on. Both Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) agree that "it's not important whether Ukraine has elected leadership. Our $100 billion investment in the war will have been wasted if a new Ukrainian leader negotiates a peaceful settlement."
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) said "I welcome the opportunity for voters in Ukraine to choose between candidates representing different approaches for ending the war. Impeding that opportunity and siccing the police on the candidate who offers an alternative to the Zelensky regime has a disturbing resemblance to what is happening here in how President Biden is handling Trump's opposition to his policies."
"What my junior colleague overlooks is that the money we have invested and the additional $60 billion more we tried to enact last week flow to the great American corporations who manufacture the weapons Ukraine needs for its fight against Russian tyranny," McConnell asserted. "Keeping these fine corporations in prime financial condition is essential to our national security. If our government doesn't buy their weapons they may be forced to sell them to hostile regimes to stave off the possible bankruptcy that a return of Trump and his peace policies to the presidency could bring down on them."
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Wonderful today how reality has set in…two years ago Babuskas where taking up arms…today, 16 million Ukies have fled Ukraine, their press gangs are roaming the streets capturing males and sending them to the Eastern front….
Fact is the Ukies legislation for more mobilization is severe, freezing bank accounts, jail terms, ….all because St Zelensky feels the need to supply more fresh meat for Vlads meat grinder…” Where’s the meat” ( and money)? says he.
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