Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace and Ukraine’s Nato membership
Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace and Ukraine’s Nato membership
Volodymyr Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace and Ukraine’s Nato membership
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owning putin by stepping down after leading his country to a disaster, a truly masterful act.
Not good logic regardless of whether you think Zelensky is or is not a dictator. A dictator might if the terms he demanded for it were those that both parties of the conflict had already ruled out.
Making an impossible ask is hardly a sign of being reasonable or truly willing to do a thing. If I tell you I'll give you ten million dollars but only if you can settle the mess in Palestine with the the "israeli" state and the Palestinian people permanently I'm not seriously offering you ten million dollars, my ask is impossible. No one would say it's a good faith offer on my part.
Trump's team has acknowledged NATO is not viable and doesn't even want to commit US troops in the event of a ceasefire (something Russia refuses anyways), preferring it be a Europe problem and Russia categorically will not accept Ukraine in NATO. This is a FACT.
This conflict started over eastward NATO expansion, one of the primary, if not the most primary goals of Russia in their fight is to stop Ukraine from becoming part of NATO and stationing western weapons/troops there near them.
Russia is winning and the support of the US is waning. They are not going to accept having spent all that treasure and blood and taken all these sanctions and in the end not get their primary goal just to get Zelensky to step down for another person who hates Russia.
A loser petulantly asking for something he isn't going to get, in exchange for something that's going to happen any way.
He's not getting peace, ever? Or what are you insinuating?
Like Hitler won his war right?
It's not going to happen anyway, Ukraine can't join NATO while they're a Russian forces in the country, as that immediately triggers article 5 which is obviously not something NATO want to happen.