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Why the Allies Keep Refusing Zelensky
Since they are not going to change, they should do this instead
Putin’s mercenaries are simply not ready to get out of Ukraine without finding the Nazis who were killed in the second world war eight decades ago. Their resolve is so high that they fired 1,000 missiles into Ukrainian soil to exhume the dead Nazis and de-nazify Ukraine.
The Ukrainians on the other hand are not ready to stop until they send the grave diggers back to their dictator land.
It’s a stalemate.
A resolution looks out of reach. Ukraine depends on the allies to counter the Russians. Their president has embraced the job to rally the entire world behind Ukraine and he has been extremely successful so far.
Zelensky’s demands were mostly met to his satisfaction, but the one request he covets the most is the one the allies are reluctant to grant.
“Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people,” Zelenskyy said. “Is this a lot to ask, to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people? Is this too much to ask? A humanitarian non-fly zone, so that Russia…