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Related: About this forumZelenskyy Has Choice Words For Putin As Ukraine Makes Remarkable Progress Repelling Russia - TRMS
Rachel Maddow reports on the significant amount of land Ukrainian forces have taken back from Russia's invasion and shares a strongly worded statement from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Vladimir Putin. - Aired on 09/12/2022.
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Zelenskyy Has Choice Words For Putin As Ukraine Makes Remarkable Progress Repelling Russia - TRMS (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Sep 2022
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Irish_Dem
(47,446 posts)1. No longer necessary to compare Zelensky to Churchill.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has attained iconic brilliant leadership in his own right.
speak easy
(9,320 posts)2. In 1940 Britain stood alone.
No one had Churchill's back. That is the difference.
Irish_Dem
(47,446 posts)4. I could argue that Zelensky is smarter than Churchill.
Zelensky got the US to enter the war right from the start.
It took Churchill much longer and only because of Pearl Harbor.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)3. "Repelling Russia," forsooth?
First time I ever saw a successful counteroffensive characterized as "repelling" the enemy. Who's running Ukraine, Rodney Dangerfield?
-- Mal