All over his quixotic desire to join NATO, an objective that was never going to be achieved because of geopolitical realities.
That’s NATO stuff is Russian gaslighting. That issue was always open to negotiation. Don’t listen to drooling Putinists and their fairy tales on that subject. Ukraine wants EU membership, though.
Its not propaganda. Zelensky himself stated not long ago that he had “cooled down” about Ukraine’s bid to join NATO. So NATO membership has been a goal for some time.
A country in our hemisphere wanting to enter into a defensive military alliance with Russia would never be tolerated by the U.S. Cuba comes immediately to mind. We would view it as a serious threat, not unlike how Russia views Ukraine. Rightly or wrongly, its all about geopolitical realities. Zelensky’s unrealistic desires have led to much destruction within his own country — and now a growing economic problem for Europe.
Was bringing us closer to WW III worth it?