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What a guy. He shot to the top of my rankings that day three years ago when he said he needed ammo, not a ride. And unlike cowardly little shitbox hiding in his kremlin he's not afraid of visiting the soldiers on the front line.
If only all politicians put their country ahead of themselves like Zelensky does. What an amazing planet this could be.
I agree with every word, but I just feel like there's something a little special about Ukrainians that make them willing to stand in the face of tyrants others would fold to. There's a lot to the history of their name:
That's not very dictator-like. I'm starting to wonder if Donald Trump misjudged him...
Trump is incapable of comprehending this level of selflessness
Trump is incapable of comprehending ~~this level of selflessness~~
Trump is incapable
Trump is cap
Trump is crap
Zelensky isn’t facing down prison and treason sentences on their way out. But he would have to avoid Russian tea service in his retirement.
As with everything Maga it was projection
Gaslight Obscure Project, GOP.
Ol Drumpy? Misjudge someone‽ Nah, that's just the WoKe meDiA lying to you!!!/s
Hats off to one of the few remaining real politicians who put the country over their own person.
On the other hand, if they would hold a vote for a new president after that, he surely would get the job again.
Trump so mad because Zelenskyy got all the balls and he got none
Saddest shit ever.
Really clever move. Take the wind out of old Trumptator's sails
Very nice and clever response to the shitheads expecting meat-headed claims of “Zelensky dictator, no election, Russia rescue” to hold any water.
I think the rest of NATO should eagerly take him up on his offer… sans the resignation. Because Ukraine needs Zelenskyy at this point.
That alone would enrage Putin and his KGB puppet currently sitting in the Oval Office.
And then the rest of NATO can go completely weapons-free at Russia and Belarus.
Didn't turkey block Sweden for years? Can Ukraine join NATO if the US opposes?
Ukraine can't join without being in active conflict with another country for a set amount of time.
A rule, I might add, put in place to prevent exactly this scenario.
A fascist dictator rising in USA? That was planned for?
I think if the US opposes Ukraine joining, then NATO will be de facto replaced by some European equivalent. So the question is, is the US - and specifically I mean the Trump regime - comfortable with that?
Nothing would really need to change, as if Ukraine was admitted to the EU defence agreement, that is a stronger binding agreement than NATO towards Europe.
And if Russia attacks, and most of NATO is thus at war, the US will then do what the US would have always done either way, which I don't know what it is at this point.
I assume the US' plan would involve blowing a bunch of shit up, making the situation significantly worse while achieving none of the objectives they originally intended to, and transferring a fuckton of cash to Lockheed Martin in the process.
Well said, I agree with your take. It’s very unsettling.
any single country can block another from joining
Russia will prevent ukraine nato entry
Explain how
bargaining with less than no leverage.. smart move
This is not bargaining... It's simply proving he isn't a dictator
sadly he just doesn't get it.
Get what? I think he's a great negotiator.
the red line that Russia saw crossed when it escalated the conflict (that the president had promised to pacify before his election with no negotiational success) into full-fledged war.
He gets it. He's negotiating. He never intends to join Nato. I thought that was very obvious.