'BET THE TRENDS' POLL: RUSSIA WINS UKRAINE WAR

Western politicians and media outlets have tried to frame the war as Ukraine's to lose

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KINGSTON, N.Y.—Gerald Celente, the publisher of The Trends Journal, took to Twitter to ask the public to “Bet the Trends” on who will win the Ukraine War. 

The poll, which was published on 18 April and spanned five days, read, “RUSSIA VS. UKRAINE: Who will win the war?”  

By a vast majority, 76 percent of the responders said Russia will beat Ukraine and just 9.6 percent gave the edge to Ukraine... while some 15 percent said the war will end in a draw.  

The poll is in stark contrast to the drumbeat from U.S. NATO politicians and media outlets who tend to frame the war as Ukraine’s to lose. 

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On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who were in Poland, said Russia was essentially losing and that the U.S. wants to see Moscow’s military capabilities degraded.

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Moscow has "already failed,” said Blinken. Austin, the retired U.S. Army four-star general who commanded troops in America’s losing Iraq and Afghan wars, declared that, "We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine." 

He said Russia “has already lost a lot of military capability. And a lot of its troops, quite frankly. And we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability." 

TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal is completely opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, but—as we have long pointed out—it does not come as a surprise since Moscow views Kyiv’s partnership with the U.S. and NATO as an existential threat. 

But we have been calling for Kyiv to sit down and negotiate for peace. Russia has already identified its demands. 

Its top demand is that Ukraine agrees to take a neutral stance and will not apply for NATO membership. Zelensky has already agreed to this requirement. 

The BBC reported that Kyiv would also have to disarm, would have to deNazify, and must protect the Russian language in the eastern region of the country.

Russia has pulled its troops from Kyiv to focus on its offensive in the east. 

Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian negotiator, told Reuters that there will be no meeting with Putin until “after the country defeated Russia in the east, which would bolster its negotiating position.”

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