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Zelensky's Sobering Christmas Message to Ukraine Describes 'Loss of Hope'
Newsweek ^ | 12/26/22 | Scott McDonald

Posted on 12/26/2022 12:12:05 PM PST by JonPreston

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses his nation every night with a speech that usually gives updates of war, whether good or bad. His delivery on Christmas Eve was more somber than upbeat. It discouraged Christmas lights and bells. He said meals aren't warm and that there may be an empty seat or two at this year's table.

Zelensky described a loss of love, hope and even himself as the war hits the 10-month mark on Christmas Eve.

"Our houses and streets can't be so bright. And Christmas bells can ring not so loudly and inspiringly. Through air raid sirens, or even worse – gunshots and explosions. And all this together can pose a bigger threat. It is a disappointment. Of the higher forces and their power, of goodness and justice in the world. Loss of hope. Loss of love. Loss of myself ..."

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KEYWORDS: christmas; democult; disappointingprofits; ftxdonationstodems; message; newsweak; notourwar; sobering; themoneystillflows; zelensky
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To: ransomnote

Russia started the war.


21 posted on 12/26/2022 1:15:24 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: JonPreston

He lost billions in the laundry-FTX!


22 posted on 12/26/2022 1:15:57 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Williams

OUR borders aren’t protected. Doesn’t that bother you even a little bit?


23 posted on 12/26/2022 1:17:20 PM PST by GOPJ (Illegals coming idiopathic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE) )
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To: JonPreston
Zelensky called Russia the "evil and darkness" that has invaded his country, and he vowed Ukraine would use the "wisdom of God" to overcome it.

"Isn't this what evil and darkness, which have taken up arms against us, want in their essence? We have been resisting them for more than three hundred days and eight years," Zelensky said. "And will we allow them to achieve what they want?

"In this battle, we have another powerful and effective weapon. The hammer and sword of our spirit and consciousness. The wisdom of God. Courage and bravery. Virtues that incline us to do good and overcome evil.

"Our path is illuminated by faith and patience. Patience and faith. These are twin forces. As it was said, "he who rules and controls his own spirit, is better than he who captures a city." To endure does not mean to accept the circumstances. Patience is watching to make sure that we don't let any doubt or fear into our minds. It is faith in one's own strength."

24 posted on 12/26/2022 1:22:27 PM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: OHPatriot
Why is he so somber? Didn’t the little faggot just pick up a big fat check from Joey before Christmas.

Yes, but after Joe, Nancy, Mitch and the others get their take, most of the rest will be funneled back to Dem and RINO campaigns and DoD contractors.

The mincing little grifter says “sorry, but there’s nothing left for the human shie- errr…people of Ukraine.”

25 posted on 12/26/2022 1:22:41 PM PST by Allegra
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To: JonPreston

Should have negotiated last February.


26 posted on 12/26/2022 1:27:28 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Williams

Blah blah blah... STFU already.

Nobody gives a single f what you think - ranting,Uke-apologist windbag.


27 posted on 12/26/2022 1:31:04 PM PST by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: OHPatriot

He just wants to increase the size of the check. Notice that his European neighbors did not give him a Christmas present but that it is Uncle Stupid who goes ho, ho, ho. US generosity extends to others but not to our kids. Ukraine might as well become the 51st state.


28 posted on 12/26/2022 1:40:38 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: ransomnote

Of course he is forlorn...the guy has got a lot of stuff on his mind...:-) His measly cut of the U.S. big bucks, alone, could bring tears. Not to mention the Americans are hot on the trail of some of his graft.

https://t.me/s/rezident_ua/ (Ukrainian Telegram Channel with excellent inside source)

Resident
#political season
Despite Zelensky’s media-effective visit to the United States, the congress continues to split over the issue of military and, especially, financial assistance to Ukraine. The list of weapons was determined by the Pentagon and the White House a week before the visit, which means that Biden needed the trip to push through the defense budget with the necessary parameters before the House of Representatives came under the control of the Republican Party. If you look at the expenditure items from military assistance to Ukraine, in reality we will get only 20-25%, and the rest goes to the EU and the American military-industrial complex.

Zelensky played the role of a battering ram in the interests of the Biden Administration and once again annoyed the Republicans, which was evident from the reaction of congressmen and politicians.
Thus, some members of the US Congress, who were sitting on their phones during the speech of the head of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, or even did not come at all, did not change their minds about the “opaqueness” of allocating funds to Kyiv. Many members of the Republican Party in Congress were extremely unhappy with Zelensky’s visit. So, four congressmen refused to applaud the Ukrainian president, and two of them did not stand up when Zelensky took the podium. Florida Congressman Matt Goetz called the policy of supporting Ukraine “America comes last.” According to the politician, the US itself needs money because of the crisis in the country. Moreover, the Republicans still demand an audit of aid to Ukraine and increased aid to Taiwan. As a result, in the near future, Kyiv is threatened with financing on a residual basis,

As a result, the Democrats and the Biden Administration benefited from Zelensky’s trip, and Ukraine became the main bone of contention in the internal political struggle in the United States, which will further strengthen the Republican attack on our country.

Resident
⚡️⚡️ ⚡️#Inside
Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President decided to increase funding for the network of Russian telegram channels in order to continue working on rocking the situation within the Russian Federation. Bankovaya, together with TsIPSO, developed a strategy for a network of regional channels throughout Russia, which should discredit the Kremlin’s policy and highlight all the mobilization cases, primarily the death of soldiers and the illegal work of military commissars. The project budget has been increased from 10 million dollars to 30 million dollars a month, which will allow creating hundreds of small news and entertainment telegram channels in the regions of Russia, which will be interconnected.

Resident
⚡️⚡️⚡️#InsideOur
source in the OP said that the technologists of the Office of the President see the buildup of the internal political track in Russia as the main task for 2023. In the format of a protracted war, the country that was able to create tools of influence from the enemy and clean up the information space at home will win. Bankova was in a hurry to pass a media bill this year to ensure full control over the media and limit the influence of the oligarchs. Telegram remains the only platform, but the Office of the President solves this problem on an individual basis.

Resident
After publications in telegram channels of information about a new wave of mobilization, the General Staff decided to shift the focus and announced planned activities.
The head of the personnel department of the headquarters of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Roman Gorbach, in a commentary to Channel 24, said that the distribution of subpoenas takes place in public places, because it is ineffective to hand subpoenas at home addresses - people do not open doors.

“That is why the heads of territorial centers choose places where there are a lot of people,” Gorbach said.

Another difficulty is that men practically never inform the territorial recruiting centers about what kind of education they received, where they moved, when they got married, divorced or had children.

“If the conscripts themselves submitted updated data to the territorial centers, no one would catch them on the streets,” Gorbach said.

There is only one question left: why was it necessary right now to hand out subpoenas so abruptly?

https://t.me/resident_ua/15670
Telegram
Resident
Military registration and enlistment offices across the country have stepped up the distribution of subpoenas, a new wave of mobilization should not only close the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern front, but also increase the number of the Ukrainian army by 15-20% by February 2023.

https://t.me/nabludatels/26505

Resident
forwarded from
ZeRada
💰💰The US continues to put pressure on Bankova

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Direct reporting to the US) is conducting a series of searches in Dnipro, at the homes of persons associated with the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentin Reznichenko.

Searches are being carried out at 15 addresses, in the offices of Reznichenko himself, in a number of departments of the regional administration, even at the fitness trainer Yana Kh, who was associated with him.☝🏻

Even the mistress was not spared, Pindos...

We are talking about large-scale corruption within the framework of the “Great Construction” in the implementation of road construction projects.

According to sources in law enforcement agencies, the fitness trainer’s firm and the heads of regional state administrations “mastered” more than 1.5 BILLION HRYVNA in 2022 alone.

The implementation of such a large-scale scheme is impossible without the “protection” of the project from Kyiv, searches were also carried out at the home of Yuri Golik, the coordinator of the “Great Construction” with Bankova.

Earlier we wrote about the colossal corruption in this project, the threads of which stretch to Kyrylo Timoshenko, a native of the Dnieper.

The Americans are approaching Kirill Timoshenko.


29 posted on 12/26/2022 1:41:47 PM PST by Cathi
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To: BRL

But there will be gay marriage now in Ukraine...so they won. He already demonstrated that during a time of war this was the most pressing thing to rally a nation around.....what a miserable piece of work.
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That’s what happens when you do a deal with the devil. Immorality has divine consequences. Senile Joe ( the US) is the drug dealer, peddling it’s filth, there is much harsher “ punishment “ to dealers than users.

It’s coming, make no mistake….for all the world to see.


30 posted on 12/26/2022 2:00:51 PM PST by delta7
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To: MeganC

Russia started the war.
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Ukraine started the regional conflict in 2015 by shelling the ethnic Russian provinces.


31 posted on 12/26/2022 2:02:50 PM PST by delta7
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To: delta7

Russia started the war in 2014. No one was being shelled before that.


32 posted on 12/26/2022 2:14:21 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
Russia started the war.
Biden did. In the least he didn't stop it. At worst, he greenlighted it.
33 posted on 12/26/2022 2:43:52 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: JonPreston; lightman

The little creep Zelensky banned the true Orthodox Church of Ukraine!

And he continues to steal billions from the American people, with the help of the bidenite traitors!

He can go fry ice!!!!


34 posted on 12/26/2022 2:50:28 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

He banned the Russian Orthodox Church - the one that reports to the Moscow patriarchate.


35 posted on 12/26/2022 3:01:28 PM PST by Reily
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To: nicollo

Obama was president in 2014. What country are you from that you don’t know this?


36 posted on 12/26/2022 3:09:45 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Reily; lightman

Ir’s AUTONOMOUS!!!!


37 posted on 12/26/2022 4:19:19 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

From what I have read this is the one he banned.

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (1990–), a church which established independence from the Russian Orthodox Church; the church was previously as an autonomous church under jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church


38 posted on 12/26/2022 4:32:51 PM PST by Reily
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To: JonPreston

...the tears of a clown...


39 posted on 12/26/2022 4:41:34 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: AAABEST

F U

another ignorant name caller.


40 posted on 12/26/2022 4:57:06 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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