Ukraine’s Zelensky Blasts ‘Weak’ NATO for Refusing to Start Air War with Russia

Breitbart ^ | 5 Mar 2022 | JACK MONTGOMERY

[conservative98]

President Volodymyr Zelensky has slammed NATO as “weak” for refusing to enforce a no-fly zone in Ukraine, saying it will bear responsibility for future Ukrainian deaths.

Speaking at a public press conference, the Ukrainian president branded a recent NATO summit on the war in Ukraine “weak” and “confused” and evidence that “not everyone considers the struggle for freedom to be Europe’s number one goal.”

“Knowing that new strikes and casualties are inevitable, NATO deliberately decided NOT to close the sky over Ukraine,” he railed.

“We believe that NATO countries themselves have created a narrative that the closure of the sky over Ukraine would provoke Russia’s direct aggression against NATO. This is self-hypnosis. Of those who are weak, underconfident,” he claimed — although it is difficult to imagine how NATO could “close the sky over Ukraine” without directly confronting and destroying Russian warplanes, and likely Russian ground forces tasked with engaging hostile aircraft as well.

“All the people who will die starting from this day will also die because of you. Because of your weakness. Because of your disunity,” Zelensky accused.

[Kevmo]

thanks, youtube, for showing what a j@ck@$$ guys like jmackassUSA can be

[Lurker]

Better them than us.

Wouldn’t you agree?

L

[yldstrk]

If NATO doesn’t stop Putin now Putin will pick off country after country. Yes to the no fly zone.

[Kevmo]

You said you’re familiar with the story. But you don’t seem to be familiar with the whole POINT of the story.

[dfwgator]

Putin may move troops back to Cuba.

[Lurker]

I was just tossing ideas out there. This is the bailiwick of the ICC. Let’s see if they have the stones to do their job when it’s the Russians.

L

[McGavin999]

Propaganda rags are not used to people thinking for themselves. Putin wouldn’t have had any effect on us if we had been producing our own oil.

Personally, I’d be really happy if we became completely self sufficient.

[jmacusa]

Right back at you asshole. Again, thanks for the free parking in your head.

[jmacusa]

Me too and we were under Trump. I want him back. He’s still my president.

[telescope115]

Yup.

[Kevmo]

The thing about “free parking” when you’re a first class jerk to the ‘attendant’ they tend to key your car as soon as you turn your head.

I’ll be that happens to you a lot.

Run along, shortpants.

[JimRed]

NATO taking sides with military action almost guarantees WWIII, nukes and no winner.

[Little Ray]

The Budapest. Memorandum does not promise a military commitment.

[Kevmo]

It promises “security assurances”. So what exactly is your point? That Ukraine should feeeelz secure right now because we’re sending soft words of support?

[rbmillerjr]

Just keep sending Javelins and Stingers...When it is over, we can send Harpoon anti ship to permanently target Russian ships at Sevestapol/Crimea.

https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1499648943520727042?t=l6bGj6ftL7ZbYt6pWHXMng&s=19

[Little Ray]

Nope.
I am say we are in compliance since we sanctioned Russia.
There is nothing in Ukraine worth a single American life.

[Kevmo]

Since we sanctioned Russia? You really feel that was effective? It sure as hell didn’t stop Russia from invading. Even Biden’s press secretary said they had no hope that they would be effective. What kind of nincompoopery is this?

There is no reason any country should trust any agreement that we sign. Like my tagline says, we should be giving back nukes to Ukes right about now.

[Chickensoup]

Boy Soros and the leftists really want killings to happen?

[Kevmo]

I am say we are in compliance since we sanctioned Russia.
***This has got me seriously SMH.

You seriously think that we traded Uke Nukes for sternly written letters towards an invader as "in compliance"?

[Kevmo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances

Canadian journalist Michael Colborne pointed out that “there are actually six obligations in the Budapest Memorandum, and the first of them is ‘to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine’”. Colborne also pointed out that a broadcast of Lavrov’s claim on the Twitter account of Russia’s embassy in the United Kingdom actually “provided a link to the text of the Budapest Memorandum itself with all six obligations, including the ones Russia has clearly violated – right there for everyone to see.” Steven Pifer, an American diplomat who was involved in drafting the Budapest Memorandum, later commented on “the mendacity of Russian diplomacy and its contempt for international opinion when the foreign minister says something that can be proven wrong with less than 30 seconds of Google fact-checking?”[37]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Main article: 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly commented on the Budapest Memorandum by arguing that it provides no true guarantee of safety due to Russia’s coercive power. On 19 February 2022, Zelenskyy made a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he said “Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum. Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. ... If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.”[42] Putin used Zelenskyy’s comments as part of his claims that Ukraine could develop nuclear weapons. Critics have disputed Putin’s claims.[43] This treaty has since been violated by Russia at the outbreak of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.