Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace and Ukraine’s Nato membership
“If it brings peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I’m ready. I can exchange it for Nato [membership],” he told reporters on Sunday... “If such conditions exist [I will step down] immediately.”
“If it brings peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I’m ready. I can exchange it for Nato [membership],” he told reporters on Sunday... “If such conditions exist [I will step down] immediately.”
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Except it’s not really getting anything if US won’t participate in NATO.
But it does call Putin’s bluff. And if he believes that Trumpism isn’t forever, it might work out.
We only have a strong probability or view of whether Trump would follow through on article 5 commitments. How can you know the outcome of that right now?
As an American who has lived around the right my entire life, Europe is and has been foolish to rely on the US. The American right is very isolationist and retributive.
NATO without US is something else entirely. But it could still have value. The commitment to fund & supply Ukraine via EUR is very important. But the NATO structure falls apart.
It’s obviously true.
But US is a huge amount of the leadership, budget, specific military capability, nuclear deterrent of NATO.
NATO doesn’t exist without the US.
Something else might.
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Don't do it.
NATO membership is not possible for countries in a war.
His resignation won't stop war.
There's no expectation anyone will take him up on this trade, but it's still genuine.