Posted on 10/17/2024 8:47:34 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Kiev has the capability to build a nuclear weapon "in a few weeks," a high-ranking Ukrainian official has told Bild, the German tabloid reported on Thursday after Vladimir Zelensky announced his atomic ambitions.
Ukraine needs either membership in NATO or nuclear weapons, Zelensky said on Friday in Brussels, arguing in favor of his "victory plan" to end the conflict with Russia.
This prompted Bild to reveal that a Ukrainian official involved in weapons procurement told them "a few months ago" that Kiev was willing to go nuclear.
"We have the material, we have the knowledge. If the order is given, we will only need a few weeks to have the first bomb," the unnamed official said, according to the German tabloid, adding that the West should "think less about Russia's red lines and more about ours."
In his speech on Thursday, Zelensky claimed to have informed former - and possibly future - US President Donald Trump about Kiev's atomic aspirations.
"Speaking to Donald Trump, I told him: 'What is the way out for us?'Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and they will serve as protection, or we need to be in some kind of an alliance. We don't know any effective alliances except NATO," Zelensky said. He also claimed that Trump agreed with him.
Trump has made no mention of Zelensky's nuclear proposal, however. In the time since their meeting, he also made a case in an interview that nuclear weapons were the greatest threat to humanity and that he hoped to make a global deal on eventual denuclearization during his first term in the White House.
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I’m looking forward to the Broadway musical adaptation. I hear Flatus and Kumala sold the rights to Andrew Lloyd Weber.
The babushka chorus scene will be fun.
Ukraine in 1994 was still Russia. It took a few more years for Nationalist NAZI ilk backed by the west to fan the flames of ethenic hatred in Ukraine as they were actively doing in the former Yugoslavia. Race and Gender are the favorite tools of the FDR Democrats today.
Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 after a referendum in which 90% of eligible voters supported independence.
Ah, the view of the Russian nationalists, and Putin's justification for the war. The Ukrainians, however, are not Russians and never were, despite having been ruled by the Russian tsar. Russians need to let Ukraine go.
Should have done it a few years ago.
Should have done it a few years ago.
I can see it now. The 288 MM Howitzer with a nuke shell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Zozvmxat0
I read it “ submit to the bully“. That appears to be what you mean.
“I read it “ submit to the bully“. That appears to be what you mean.”
Agree, that’s what they did, rather than try to work with Russia to settle things.
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