Zelensky would have certainly hit the button as he clearly stated recently Nato should. Had he had Nuclear capability he would have used it.
The only thing Putin has accomplished is increasing the size scope and speed of the globalists agenda.
The rainbow f[l]lag Zelinskites see otherwise.
He's saber rattling to intimidate and drive up opposition in countries aiding Ukraine.
If Russia uses nuclear weapons, the US will have to respond, and does not have to use nuclear weapons.
Globally, economically, political in regional or world influence, Russia will be a pariah for years.
Putin wants a empire, he does not want to turn Russia into the largest third would country on Earth.
I guess Putin secretly bought The Federalist too.
Let the euro-weenies do it if they really want it.
Of no use to us. Not worth a dime or drop of American blood.
it aint gonna happen, 1 vote discounts it but NATO wants war
Russia won’t launch nukes without having all of its forces shut down afterwards. Then the problem will be gone.
The people who replaced Gorbachev with Boris Yeltsin were the first set of idiots who started us down this dangerous path.
I could be wrong on this, but I presume one of the major desires of the American Revolutionaries was to decouple the U.S from Europe’s destiny. Seems they failed.
Domestically the article is right.
From the other members’ perspective, America unilaterally pulling the plug on the NATO “open door” article of the organisation (article 10 iirc)is as big a deal as revoking article 5.
And doing it only in response to Russia’s blackmail draft agreement from last December would be ruinous for America’s reputation within NATO.
The simple fact is, out of Russia’s demands from December only 3 were tenable; the rest amount to removing all protections over the Warsaw Pact region, terminating three uncontroversial membership processes already in flight, no military exercises without Russian approval, and no - absolutely no - reciprocal concessions by Moscow.
They even threw in a clause allowing them in effect to invade eastern Europe if they have a “self defense” argument for it - which is effectively legitimising their “Ukraine is about to invade the Donbass” argument that they used (amongst other equally bullshit causus belli) to invade Ukraine.
Yes, by all means sign up to that and let a rogue state tell all of Europe and the USA that it has a veto on their defence policy; what could possibly go wrong...
When did the Soviet Union request to join NATO?
March 1954
The document below is a translation of V. M. Molotov’s proposal to the Soviet Presidium in March 1954 that the USSR should issue a diplomatic note to the Western powers stating its willingness to consider joining NATO.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/molotovs-proposal-the-ussr-join-nato-march-1954
“THIS TREATY IS NOT A PACT FOR WAR, BUT A PLEDGE FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS.”
Lester B. Pearson,
Speaking at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty Washington, D.C., 4 April 1949
Canada, a founding member of NATO, was one of the first countries to propose the idea of a transatlantic defensive alliance. Working closely with their American and European colleagues, Canadian negotiators helped write the 14 articles of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Mulroney chose to cancel an increase in forces envisaged for West Germany and in fact decided to withdraw the last Canadian land forces from Europe. On 10 July 1993, the last Canadian Armed Forces personnel left Europe.
As long as ukraine is in conflict with russia they will not be in nato.
Get out of Ukraine!
It’s not our war, in any way, shape or form.
Both Putin and Zelensky are corrupt, murderous dictators.
Get out of Ukraine!
The UK just did a u-turn on a two year cap on energy prices.
The cap now will end this coming April.
Somehow I don’t think the Ukraine scam will be going for too much longer.
This has been a straw man since the beginning.
No one is putting nukes into Ukraine. No one is putting Ukraine into NATO—at least not for a long time.
This argument has been the red herring that Putin whines about as he tries to grab Ukrainian gas fields.