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I somehow missed him saying it's pointless for Palestinians. I assumed they meant it in a way we Europeans constantly shit on people for doing photo-ops with Zelensky instead of real action. These things are pointless when the EU spends more money buying russian gas than they spend on defending Ukraine. It's all a front show.
This is very false. Ukraine is actually getting quite desperate with unpopular law changes like forcing men to return to Ukraine or lowering/increasing minimum military age, not even talking about deep strikes which was a big no from many, but Ukraine can no longer afford the slow war, they cannot win by attrition, hence the constant escalation.
The current hot topic seems to be the fact that Russia has turned Zaporizhzhya NPP into a dirty bomb that can go off if backup generators fail. Yes, you read that correctly. The Europe's largest nuclear power plant is being kept active (non-generating, but active in nuclear), only cooled by backup generators which can fail at any moment (backup generators aren't designed to be ran for multiple days in a row), followed by a nuclear meltdown, but no one talks about it because apparently it's no longer a trendy topic, as confirmed by you.