Posted on 04/09/2024 5:24:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine warned in an interview that Russian influence had pierced the American political system and rejected the idea, backed by allies of Donald Trump, that Ukraine could swiftly end the war just by making massive territorial concessions.
But Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he had privately urged Trump through intermediaries to travel to Ukraine and that Trump had expressed interest but had not yet committed to making a trip. Zelenskyy said he was open to hearing Trump’s proposals for the war, while making clear he was highly skeptical.
“If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with Axel Springer media outlets. POLITICO is owned by Axel Springer.
Zelenskyy continued: “I need very strong arguments. I don’t need a fantastic idea, I need a real idea, because people’s lives are at stake.”
Any deal that merely gave up land to Russian President Vladimir Putin in exchange for an end to hostilities, Zelenskyy said, would just open the way for more Russian wars of conquest in the future. A negotiated peace, he said, had to leave the Russian despot “no room to carry out his plans.”
In the interview, Zelenskyy swerved at times between expressing impatience with Western allies that have not delivered military aid readily enough — he faulted Germany most explicitly — and admitting that Ukraine is under considerable pressure to show new progress in the war. The interview was conducted in a combination of English and Ukrainian, partially using translators.
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Why would Trump want to step foot in that Deep State Cesspool,?
Z, the short pandhandler/pickpocket/ragman can get humped. Down with Eurotrash !
That's the only way Ukraine will stop fighting. The peace treaty will have to include NATO membership and we'll have to send in troops immediately to secure Kyiv once the war is over.
Zelensky anally raping the US taxpayer while Congress supplies the lube.
Ukraine has DEFINITELY penetrated US politics.
No that was China. They deliberately dumped it so they wouldn't have to comply with Trump's tough trade deals he held their feet to.
I hope he doesn’t go.
Ukraine better update their presidential and governing documents which state that the president of Ukraine cannot negotiate with Putin.
If it were merely a Zenlinski thing his removal would suffice. However, Putin may well demand Zenlinski himself grovel just to spite the little Nazi duce.
The acceleration of eastward movement of the frontlines is going to quite possibly happen so quickly that Ukraine will cease to exist as a NATO Proxy.
The Biden Admin is pushing fir a limited nuclear confrontation in Ukraine again. Russia knows the nuclear angle was tied to the Concert attack. I really believe that this current Administration is so ignorant of history that they are willing to play nuclear flich with Putin, and that they are not the smartest people in the room. They are going to find out if they push too hard that Russia really will hit them first and it won’t be a warning shit. If the US thinks we can introduce nuclear or nutron bombs without a massive retaliation from Russia they are gambling with everyone
S lives.
Russia will disarm this hostile Ukraine and make it a landlocked neutral rump city state. This doesn’t end with NATO in Ukraine. It ends with Ukraine having a police force without tanks or APCs.
This doesn’t end with NATO in Ukraine.
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Yep...any demand that Ukraine must be allowed to join NATO is a Neo-Con pipe dream. It will merely prolong the war (which Neo-Con scum want anyway).
Seriously......
He should complain.
Trump would never go there.
It’s nowhere and Z is nobody.
What about just sending old weapons?
Does Russia get to keep areas it has taken that were not majority ethnic Russian?
Bingo!
Maybe reality is entering politics in Washington when it comes to Ukraine. Our money is not going to bring victory to Ukraine. All we are doing is killing more Ukrainians and filling the pockets of corrupt assholes on both sides of the world.
I agree with you...it’s a trap!
Its all about hurting Russia and to what end?
My sense is that Marxist Moles in our government hate Russia because it isn’t Communist anymore want to bring Russia down and or force it in Communist China’s arms.
Bill Clinton started the eastwards expansion of NATO in 1997 and Obama was POTUS when the US backed coup in Ukraine triggered Russia’s takeover of Crimea in 2014.
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