Posted on 04/12/2022 8:42:38 AM PDT by blam
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not let up on his criticism of NATO and told 60 Minutes in an interview that aired Sunday that he is “no longer interested” in the military alliance’s diplomacy.
“When you’re working in diplomacy, there are no results. All of this is very bureaucratic,” Zelensky said when asked about recent harsh comments about NATO. “That’s why the way I am talking to them is absolutely justified. I don’t have any more lives to give. I don’t have any more emotions. I’m no longer interested in their diplomacy that leads to the destruction of my country.”
Screenshot/Image source: CBS
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Zelensky has been pleading with the US and NATO to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would mean the Western powers entering a direct conflict with Russia. For not going to war with Russia, Zelensky has slammed NATO as being “weak” and “afraid” of Moscow.
Discussing negotiations with Russia, Zelensky said he would never recognize Crimea as Russian territory even though the peninsula has been under Russian control since 2014. As part of a potential peace deal, Moscow also wants Kyiv to recognize the independence of the breakaway Donbas republics of Donestk and Luhansk.
When asked if he was willing to give up any Ukrainian territory for peace, Zelensky said, “Overall we are not ready to give away our country. I think we have already given up a lot of [lives]. So, we need to stand firm for as long as we can. But this is life. Different things happen.”
“We understand one of their provisions that is always talked about is to recognize Crimea as Russian territory. I will definitely not recognize that,” he added.
The Ukrainian leader said that his country hadn’t been willing to cede territory from the beginning. “Had we been willing to give up our territory, there would have been no war,” Zelensky said.
Yeah, it’s a money laundering operation, using your country, Z.
This is real life, Zee. Not a music video. You are totally out of your depth.
Make peace. No one is going to go to war with Russia to save your @$$. Stop throwing away your people’s lives for nothing.
When asked if he was willing to give up any Ukrainian territory for peace, Zelensky said, “Overall we are not ready to give away our country. I think we have already given up a lot of [lives]. So, we need to stand firm for as long as we can. But this is life. Different things happen.”
***He’s got 15 nuke power plants in his country, he’s got Chernobyl where there’s plenty of dirty bomb material to hurl at Russia. He’s got nuke engineers, nuke material, and now that he’s in an existential war, the motivation to build suitcase nukes.
If he were a country without that capability, he would be striking a much more accommodating tone towards his invaders.
Ruling out diplomacy is a dead end, literally.
This guy isn’t Churchill at all.
I watched Russell Brand’s podcast on this subject. The idea that hedge funds are making up to 300% profits because of the decline in the Ukrainian currency is intolerable. The money we’re sending them is covering those bets. Unacceptable.
By invading Ukraine and threatening Finland, Putin has demonstrated the need for NATO. Now the question is, is Nato an alliance worth joining.
What I find most pathetic is that he could have shown up for this interview wearing a “Bernie Sanders 2020” T-shirt, and there would still be a bucket full of Freepers swearing he is the second coming of George Washington.
I’ll say no thanks to our city baking in 100,000,000° Celsius heat for Ukraine.
>The money we’re sending them is covering those bets.
It absolutely ridiculous. After the war is over, the venture capitalists will swoop in and buy all the non-functional property and buildings at pennies to the dollar just like they did in Russia ‘91.
Has he figured out yet that the US deep-state/NATO are perfectly happy to have every Ukrainian die in the service of their globalist plans to confront Russia?
This gang of sickening U-bots even ping each other to threads to worship this clown.
Seriously? A Bernie Sanders t-shirt?
Geeesh.
Go Ukraine!
Hopefully this hunk of global dung will shoot himself in the nostril by the time this is done.
As long as his bank account keeps rising , he won’t care about Ukrainian lives. He should go for a ceasefire but Soros and the warmongers pay too well....
or maybe Z should go back to social media and his penis piano.
https://twitter.com/AmySpiro/status/1498085663786344452
That and the Biden regime teasing NATO membership for Ukraine caused the war.
And, those in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk should have every right to be independent of a Ukrainian nationalist government that is hostile to their Russian ethnicity and foment illegally through insurrection in 2014.
Zelensky is a hero. Shame on you for calling him a clown. You’re ignorant. FR already has enough stooges Luke.
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