Summary
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that enforcing a peace deal with Russia would require at least 200,000 allied troops, emphasizing Europe’s need to strengthen its defenses against Russian aggression.
Speaking at Davos, he called for greater EU investment in military technology and urged NATO membership as Ukraine’s best security guarantee, despite opposition from the U.S., Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Zelenskyy criticized Kremlin demands to shrink Ukraine’s army and warned that if Russia wins in Ukraine, it could threaten other nations.
Zelenskyy said European leaders should not ask themselves what Trump would do next, and said that they instead needed to take collective steps to defend their continent at a time when it was under aggressive attack by Russia.
“We all need to unite,” he said, adding: “Europe needs to learn how to fully take care of itself, so the world cannot afford to ignore it.”
Zelenskyy showing some true leadership in Davos.
Also, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia need to shape up and stop blocking Ukraine in NATO (and peace in Ukraine).
We all need to, Australia only just broke 2.4% GDP on Defense spending.
We usually do pretty well with value for money in ADF (minus every RAN submarine program ever) but the amount is so small. We should be taking notes from Ukraine on how to beat back big players with commodity and easily replicable technology.
.ml won’t want to hear it, but we’ve got a belligerent China to worry about and 2049 is getting closer and closer.
Zelensky for German Bundeskanzler
This war didn’t end? It’s been over a day since trump took office. He said he would end the war on day 1. No way a stand up guy like donald would lie right?
He did actually walk that back last week, so technically he didn’t lie.
If he said it before being elected and walked out back after being elected…
Meh who cares what he says now. Trump will negotiate the deal with Putin and then somebody will let Zelensky know what it is. Just like it happened for South Korea.
Like hell he will
He totally will. Of course Ukraine can choose to continue on fighting without US support. That prolly won’t be very productive. At least not in terms of recovery of land, but they can delay total loss by at least a few years if they choose this.
The EU has helped more at this point. Of course it won’t be easy, but Ukraine can win on just EU support.
They can’t “win”. If by winning you mean take all their land back. But they can delay losing long enough for administration change in US maybe. EU is helping but it’s not enough, their stores are depleted. Also long term prospects in EU don’t look good for Ukraine. Many governments are shifting right.
New EU factories that have been in the works for years are just kicking in. Some of those EU factories are actually in Ukraine, companies like Rheinmetall have vested interests in not letting that go.
Time is not working for Russia, it never did. They have this year to push, then the EU alone will outmanufacture them.
The best Trump can give them is this one year window.
