Posted on 10/17/2024 1:34:02 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he has told former President Donald Trump that Kyiv will pursue nuclear weapons for defense if it doesn’t gain entry to NATO.
“In a conversation with Donald Trump, I told him it comes to this,” Zelensky said in Ukrainian while speaking to the European Council in Brussels.
“The outcome is either Ukraine will be a nuclear power — and that will be our protection — or we should have some kind of alliance. Other than NATO, today we don’t know of any effective alliances.”
Zelensky, 46, emphasized that Ukraine is choosing to pursue membership in the 32-nation Atlantic alliance as its priority.
“I believe that he heard me,” the Ukrainian leader said of Trump, 78.
“He said it was a fair argument.”
Zelensky noted that Ukraine had given up its nuclear arsenal voluntarily with the signing of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
“Who suffered out of these countries? Everyone? No. Only Ukraine,” he said in frustration. “Who gave up nuclear weapons? Everyone? No. Only one. Who? Ukraine.”
Prior to the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine had the world’s third-largest nuclear stockpile on its soil following the breakup of the Soviet Union. It is one of four countries — along with Belarus, Kazakhstan and South Africa — to have voluntarily embraced nuclear disarmament.
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You are an example of why I am fine with Ukraine losing it all.
Zelensky is going to be pursuing exile to some neutral country before that happens.
so Kamala’s talking to talk-show hosts while everyone important is talking to Trump.
President Harris will say that nuclear weapons aren’t green enough for Ukraine to use .... unless she gets the kind of grift Biden has gotten.
President Trump said Zekensky’s argument was fair. That’s new information.
Ukraine could have nuclear weapons within weeks -Bild
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4271609/posts
Zelensky ‘tells NATO - let us join, or we'll get NUKES’: Ukrainian leader ‘issues shock ultimatum - and says his proposal was backed by TRUMP’
Zelensky knows President Trump is on his way to reelection. So does Russia.
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Of, great. Just what we need. A comedian with nukes.
This will never happen. No NATO. No nukes. Go away.
I think the giveaway was when Kim set off the fireworks.
And if Ukraine was really capable of developing its own nuclear arsenal, it would have to be run by retardates if it hadn’t done so already.
Having an argument does not mean it has merit to be decided that way.
It is just acknowledging sides, which is part of negotiation.
I believe it is a fair argument for you to give me all of your money, but you believe I should get none of it.
Do we meet halfway and call it a day?
Top Putin ally calls for Russia to ‘sink damned island of Anglo-Saxon dogs’
Dmitry Medvedev, a former long-time prime minister under Putin who also served as his puppet president for four years, threatened to ‘sink’ the UK in an unhinged social media post on Sunday.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/07/russias-medvedev-calls-putin-sink-damned-island-uk-21749129/amp/
Putin’s puppet threatens to unleash nuclear Armageddon on UK if Russia loses in Ukraine
All the idiot marcusmaxipad can do is repetitive posting that adds nothing g to the conversation. Somehow the mods just love the little idiot.
“Zelensky noted that Ukraine had given up its nuclear arsenal voluntarily with the signing of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. “
I believe that I heard that at the time, Ukraine agreed not to join Nato. So who was really betrayed? In fact the plan to join Nato is what set off the entire war.
He will get what he deserves if he does.
You’re tab Z. Not ours.
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