“...his begging is getting old...”
One of the problems with his efforts to get more weapons is he is saying he doesn’t want the war to wage in 2030 and he is claiming Russia will push further into Europe. In his situation right now he is losing his supply lines as they are not seeing any real success or an end game with the war and they are slowly cutting his cord.
This was a war Zelinsky never should have waged as he can’t win, in my opinion, without NATO countries putting their troops on the ground thus expanding the war. He should have used a lot more diplomacy to reach some sort of deal with Russia to save his people by bartering his resources and trade capacities. These are what Putin wants anyway so cutting a deal might have saved a lot of the reported 31K Ukrainians killed.
Now he’s backed himself into a corner and is gambling Putin will give up from pressure at home. But NATO is soliciting the Ukraine to stand down by refusing membership not wanting to get into a Russian conflict with nuclear weapons at Putin’s disposal. (Whether the threat exists or not) Zelinsky has opened up Pandora’s Box and he won’t take the effort to shut it. He’s a self centered, arrogant, narcissists that just won’t do the right thing.
wy69
This is correct, the area's natural resources and products are the economic goldmine coveted by Western Oligarchs and Russians.
To be clear, considerable amounts of these resources are Russian, NOT Ukrainian, or produced by Ethnic Russians, and Ukraine was involved in the theft of them in transit and commerce.
Zelensky had the option to quit stealing from the Russians, however that would put him in extreme peril from his Globalist Masters.