Posted on 03/15/2022 9:08:41 AM PDT by Smogger
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have accepted that his country will not become a member of NATO, one of the demands made by Russia before it invaded.
According to a translation of his comments in a speech, Zelensky said that Ukraine had "realized" it would not become part of the Western military alliance.
"For years we've heard the opposite, open doors, However, it is not," he said Tuesday according to Ukrainian news outlet, Trukha.
"Our people understand this, and we are beginning to count on our own strength," he added.
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Nope, definitely 1783 when Catherine the Great first invaded.
“Biden Republican”
Yep, that’s what they are.
if he said this a month ago there would have been no invasion
Biden regime misled him into thinking NATO membership was in his future when that was never an option and never can be because it triggers nuclear war conditions on the Russian side.
How can he (Zelenski) win the war? Militarily and economically Ukraine is much weaker than Russia, Putin undoubtedly will throw as many soldiers into the meat grinder as he wants, his population, en masse sees him as a glorious leader. Should Ukrainians fight till the last man? Hope not..
What concerns would that be? That Europe or the US wanted to invade Russia? This is all about a land grab (of a sovereign nation yet) with “security concerns” as the pretext.
My wife is eligible for Irish citizenship by descent (one grandparent) but they wrote me (2 great-grandparents) and our children out of the law in 2005.
They give Somalis and Afghans citizenship and cash at the airport when they land.
Mobs in the streets held wild parties when abortion to kill native Irish children was legalized.
They fought for 800 years and committed suicide in less than a generation.
Belarus already held a “vote” to fully unite with Russia...a year or two back.
That’s a done deal.
The guys is a crook who praises Zuckerberg.
I don’t see Belarus helping Russia here, do you?
At this point Russia should take Kiev and then decide. Waiting until your surrounded before accepting is a way to buy time.
I’ve been saying this for 10 years. He just figured this out?
4 years of an outsider and the world was on the brink of peace in the middle east and ,dare I say, eastern Europe. That was one of their bigger problems with Trump. He wanted Russia as an ally
“The time for the United States to take a principled stand on Ukraine was Feb. 2014 after the democratically elected government was overthrown in a coup. The US should have made the Ukie opposition live up to the agreement they had just signed to hold early elections instead of just letting the fascists take over the country.”
That coup was sponsored and engineered by the US and NATO.
Why would they then hold their new fascist government to some expeditious agreement with a losing party?
Russia is taking back what was stolen from them.
The west can wrap a bunch of emotioonal words around it like democracy, liberty, freedom etc. but that’s a big pile of bullshit. That was never going to be in Ukraine. Not in 100 years.
The west just wanted to bring those substantial resources into it’s control orbit and present a politicak lever into the weak underbelly of Russia.
They even succeeded for a little while.
But Russia perceived this as an existential threat and responded militarily.
Great power politics is back.
The US, Russia...and perhaps an emerging China...now have Spheres of Influence. Extended imperial possessions.
Any of those possessions could be traded for another on a moments notice.
Belarus has formally offered to send troops, but has not received a public answer. Or the answer has not been made public.
Belarus is a warlord governorate of Russia. I believe for a couple of years now.
you’re seriously reaching
Moldavia perhaps
Mmm....sounds like a Democrat.
“Everybody knew that NATO won’t accept Ukraine for at least a decade. That’s not why Putin invaded. That’s just his red herring.”
Yes. It’s ludicrous.
Yeah, this was what Putin wanted from the beginning.
Our weak leadership couldn’t negotiate with Putin, and now look what is happening.
Putin is dastardly, but the west has been using Ukraine as a piggy bank...both sides were screwed up.
Trump was the one who wanted to END the corruption in Ukraine as well as arm the nation so it could defend itself.
The Deep State hacks like Biden, Obama, Romney, etc. opposed that...they thought things would continue forever. Biden bragged about getting a prosecutor in Ukraine fired.
Sickening. Sickening to know Ukrainian citizens are dying as Putin’s soldiers invade, sickening to know that the west DENIED help to Ukraine that would’ve made a difference (Trump being the exception).
NATO really didn’t want Ukraine...neither does the EU.
I know they can’t help themselves
Sure Putin plans to invade a nation which already considers itself Russian territory and who’s leader is a Putin wannabe and who lets Putin launch from there
Some freepers no matter will parse and twist to avoid admitting they wrote something factually incorrect
That’s just one of a number of unfortunate traits you find too quickly here
Non provoked name calling is another
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