Summary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he is willing to resign if it ensures peace or NATO membership for Ukraine.

“If it is peace for Ukraine, and if you really want me to leave my post, I’m ready,” he said. “Alternatively, I can trade this for NATO membership… I’m focusing on Ukraine’s security today, not in 20 years.”

His comments come amid tensions with Donald Trump, who falsely suggested the Ukrainian president was responsible for starting the war.

Meanwhile, U.S.-Russia negotiations continue without Ukraine, which Zelenskyy firmly rejects. Zelenskyy emphasized the importance of Ukrainian involvement in any peace negotiations.

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    This is what being a leader looks like.

    It would be a shame if a shit end to this war buries Zelensky in history. He’s not perfect, but he deserves some monuments.

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    Trump suggested that the Ukrainian president was responsible for starting the war. In reality, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, initiating the current land war.

    I’d like it if more summaries of what conservatives say/believe were followed by sentences which began with “In reality…”

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        The sad part is the majority of his voters lose power and their country. The wage gap will only grow. Unless you were already rich, or had an income of a few million dollars a year, you only made life harder for yourself. But hey, at least those other people have it harder as well!

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          The thing is that it doesn’t matter how bad Trump makes it for maga voters so long as he makes it worse for those labeled as undesirable have it worse. As long as maga voters can look to someone else and power trip over them they’ll give Trump carte blanche. As long as those ‘perverted trans pedophiles’ can be assaulted without the fear of being arrested they’re happy.

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        No, most voters are just retarded. There are only a few supporters who knew what was happening and wanted it to happen, they are the traitors.

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    The actions of a man who loves his country and not power? Politicians in the US (on both sides) could never comprehend this.

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      Would his resignation prevent future attempts at running for president?

      surely they’d preclude him getting voted back in…

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        He literally cannot resign right now. What he is talking about. There’s isn’t even legal framework for it. I’m sure they’d find a way of they had to. But as it stands right now.

        No one can remove him from office under Martial Law.

        He is bound by oath and constitution to serve his country as head of state and may not delegate those responsibilities.

        Elections are prohibited under Martial Law.

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          Frankly, these are really bad laws. It is a good thing that he appears not to be inclined to even try to take advantage, but those laws explicitly encourage remaining at war in order to maintain power, so a worse person would definitely be trying to maintain a forever war situation.

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      It’s a hypothetical scenario anyways because Ukraine being a NATO member would mean NATO boots on ground in Ukraine, which the US (and in fairness a lot of other NATO countries, but for different reasons) want to avoid. But it calls the bluff on the unfounded dictator accusations that Russia and some puppets peddle.

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      plenty, like the Banderite Zalushni who is way more popular.
      But OC most opposition parties are forbidden, opponents put in jail and there are no elections.

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    NATO aint what it used to be. I suggest a new startup instead.

    Edit: Lol, people downvoting me when one of the founding members is threatening to invade other members. Idiots.

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      Even if the USA were to leave NATO or refuse to participate, there still isn’t a better security guarantee than the remaining block being obligated to engage militarily in your defense, and the block still contains nuclear powers.

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        Right… so start a new organization with those members. Ukraine isn’t joining NATO with Trump holding veto powers. Anyone who can’t see this is myopic.

        Why would the US leave when the russian asset can do more damage from within?

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          Ok, so that’s the crux of it that I think was unclear in your original post.

          Your initial post was read by me (and presumably others) as “NATO without the backing of the USA isn’t a meaningful defense group”

          But I think what you’re saying is “ENTRY to NATO with the USA pulling the strings is an unrealistic goal”

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      It’s a bit confusing, since nato was always the US protection racket for its vasals who had to buy their crap to assist them every few years when the great policeman of the world decided some poor country needed to be bombed into democracy.
      Now the master, impotent on the world stage is cannibalising its own.

      As the demon Kissinger said: it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.

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    Trump saying he started the war is ludicrous but somehow the right will do the mental backflips required to believe this shit. Somehow it’s zelenskys fault even though putin invaded.

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    lol now, US president Krasnov Trump can’t say President Zelensky is a dictator.

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    If Russia gets Ukraine, it’ll be 2-3 years of peace while Russia rebuilds and regroups it’s forces before it’s onto invading the next country. Probably Poland, Belarus, or Georgia. And he’ll keep doing it again and again - waging war with the west until they win or the public decides that saving a few pennies on their taxes is more important than preventing totalitarianism from subsuming Europe again.

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      Belarus is mostly Russia anyway.

      The usual approach is to fuck with the democratic system of a country, install a sympathetic puppet and then keep them there.

      This is probably why Putin has such a beef with Ukraine. They spent a lot of money getting their puppet in there, before he was ousted.

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        Because that’s literally what happened when Putin annexed Crimea. The west let him keep the territory he stole as a concession and then he just invaded again a few years later.

        Holy shit, do you people have the memory of a goldfish? First it’s “Zelenskyy started the war” and now this… Embarrassing that you’re this ignorant about what’s going on in the world.

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    Does this guy think he has all this importance? It is just a cannonball for the interests of the EU and the American Empire

    He will be discarded in the dustbin of history for having sacrificed his people in a conflict that could never have been won by Ukraine, all for money and self-pride

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      Does this guy think he has all this importance? It is just a cannonball for the interests of the EU and the American Empire

      He will be discarded in the dustbin of history for having sacrificed his people in a conflict that could never have been won by Ukraine, all for money and self-pride

      You fascists never change, do you? Always fast to get on your knees and bootlick genocide and imperialism.

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          fascist? lol

          Yes, fascist. Bruh, you have the shitstain who suppressed workers’ democracy in Russia as your pfp.

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              Sorry that you’re too caught up in bootlicking to acknowledge historical facts. Maybe you’ll find asspats from your fellow fascists over your fellatio of an enemy of the Russian proletariat.

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                  Oh cool, since you hate both, you obviously oppose the one who’s invading and performing genocide? Or is critical support only for orgs like Hamas?

                  “Being against Poland in the active, ongoing war of aggression and extermination does not make me pro-Nazi!”

                  lmao

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      you’re the kind of person to roll over and let another country destroy everything you claim to stand for.

      you would die on your knees without a peep.

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        And you’re the kind of person that doesn’t reason with his own head but feed on whatever government and media says. The same governments backing ukraine are backing israel in a genocide, they don’t give a shit about ukrainian people the same way they don’t care about children dying in gaza. Politicians only care about wealth and power, they don’t fight their own wars. The war in ukraine is being fought by poor people slaughtering each others over invisible lines on a map.

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          Thats entirely beside the point.

          You in your own country. your own family. youd just roll over for an invader?

          thats what youre advocating. Immediate surrender and destruction.

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            State propaganda makes you believe that not having an authoritarian ruler equals to surrender and destruction. People actually are capable of defending themself better without rulers forcing them to fight.

            Human rights should never be abolished, there are no conditions under which slavery is fine.

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              ??? are you responding to an entirely different comment than mine, by mistake?

              What do you think rolling over for an invader would do? bring you more freedom?

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      Have you heard of the Russian book Foundations of Geopolitics? Read a little about it and tell us what you think Russia’s goal was for starting the war

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      You’re 100% right.
      OC not appreciated by the regime fanboys
      TBF he got elected on the promise of ending the war (most of them here downvoting you have never heard of before) in the east they started against the ethnic Russians who wanted independence from the US installedcoup regime.
      And he did try, OC the fanatic Azov fascists wouldn’t hear of it and laughed in his face (on video).
      It was more easy since the Russians hadn’t stepped in yet.