[caww]

There will always be open conflict in Ukraine.....keeps them from being in Nato....and Nato/EU itself doesn't want them unless they can run the country entirely.... Zelensky would be happy to hand over those reins to run Ukraines goveernment just as he has the Military to Nato, just not officially....and then he'll retreat to his Island vacation home or villa. However Russia will not let Ukraine become a bulkhead for Nuclear Bombs against Russia.....he'll hit first - you can believe that.

[ansel12]

Why would NATO want to take the trouble to put nukes in a NATO Ukraine when they have so many easier options?

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

“There will always be open conflict in Ukraine.....keeps them from being in Nato....”

This is Putin’s pattern of “Transnistrian” policy as he has also controls ‘zones’ of frozen conflicts in Moldova (Transnistria region), Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), and now with in Ukraine annexed Crimean peninsula and the Donbas.

Putin uses this wider pattern of “created” separatist conflicts to create corruption and criminality as ‘Trojan horses’ to block progress in reform-minded periphery countries. This is the Putin tactical part of his geopolitical strategy that creats conflict zones to prevent countries from entering NATO and integrating into the European Union. CONFLICTS in these by Putin ispart of his ‘imperialistic plan’ to regain strategic points of the LOST EMPIRE.

This means Putin must fully separate occupied parts of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts from Ukraine and recognize them as Donbas puppet republics just like Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The MINSK-2 was a second attempt to force Ukraine to accept Russia’s Transnistria for the Donbas, a “peace enforcement” to push both occupied regions back into Ukraine as Russian-run enclaves to expand Russia’s control over the internal and external affairs of Ukraine.

IF PUTIN CAN MANAGE to win his “Special Military Operations to continue his Transnistria program. Otherwise, if Putin withdraws his troops from these ‘occupied’ lands, these territories would just disappear once again to be part of Ukraine.