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Zelensky willing to give up presidency in exchange for Ukraine Nato membership - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (19 children)

This guy has balls the size of western Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actions speak louder than words, and I believe Zelenskyy would. Great example of leadership.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Something like yesterday or so General Secretary of NATO said membership for Ukraine was never proposed. So it's just empty posturing on the side of Zelensky.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"Empty posturing" is a very cynical and cruel way to frame it. What would you have Zelensky do instead? Quietly let Putin and Trump divide his country up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's not enough cynical and cruel for this bastard. Only a pity that the US imperialism again ruined another country and again killed a million people or so. A lot of people were warning this is how it's gonna end and lo and behold, cassandra curse again worked.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

The US will dispose of him well before that ever happens. He has outlived his usefulness to US empire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Completely meaningless given that NATO requires unanimous agreement by all the existing members. Everybody knows that this will never happen, so basically what he's saying is that he'll cling on to power.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (23 children)

so basically what he’s saying is that he’ll cling on to power.

I find this to be a disingenuous framing. He clearly made that comment in service to the greater good of Ukraine, and I don't know how being the leader of a nation facing imperial domination and constant war and death is something anyone would want to 'cling' to other than out of a sense of duty to the people he is representing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You have to be high as hell to think Ukraine would ever be in NATO at this point. All NATO countries would have to agree to start WW3.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who wants this trade? Does NATO want him gone? Who benefits?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are we going to repost this every day now? I've seen like ten sources here covering this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I posted this 2 days ago when it was new. I posted it because someone else posted a paywalled article and this was open to all.

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