Monday, February 24, 2025

Zelensky Says He's Ready to Resign If It Means Peace

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that he was "ready" to resign as leader if it meant it brought peace to his country, suggesting he could swap it for NATO membership.

Posted by lfthndthrds at 08:33 PM | 25 COMMENTS | permalink

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Breaking News: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that he would step down if his country could join NATO. His remark came days after President Trump questioned his legitimacy and called him a "dictator," echoing a Kremlin talking point. nyti.ms/3Qur4ab

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) February 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM

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Either way, he want's NATO protection... I hope Trump sends his money-laundering --- to prison...

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-23 07:18 PM

it's possible he's enrolled inn the ARAFAT RETIREMENT FUND system...

I'm sure you dopes remember that.....launder and "save hundreds of millions of dollars while the people were left to starve...

----they get in Nato and putin attacks we're pledged to respond...

and that means you leftist will be bigger fans of war then George W ever was....

#2 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-23 08:21 PM

Jimmy Carter: there's invisible missile silos right over there for sale..

Arafat: where?

Jimmy Carter: Yasser Mr. Arafat, they're right over there.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-23 09:09 PM

"I don't recognize Ukraine's $500 billion debt. It was a grant, not loan, so not owing even 100B."
~ Zelensky

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-24 11:25 AM

Sure is quiet over here

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-24 08:56 PM

The Steve Miller Band

"Go On, Take the Money And Run"

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-24 08:57 PM

&nbs

@#1 ... Either way, he want's NATO protection... ...

As have Finland and Sweden recently. Joining NATO to protect and defend against Russia's aggression.

Ukraine's military has shown itself to be a robust defense fighting force against Russian aggression.

So, why wouldn't the US want Ukraine to join NATO?

www.af.mil

... Hegseth said. "In short, we want the biggest, most badass military on the planet." ...

Yeah, Ukraine's military has faced and done well against the overwhelming force of Russia.

Why wouldn't we want Ukraine in NATO to help us defend ourselves?


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-24 09:08 PM

Why wouldn't we want Ukraine in NATO to help us defend ourselves?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-24 09:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Because they're broke --- ------- who cant even afford themselves? Just an idea to ponder...

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-24 09:33 PM

What has Ukraine ever done for you? All their natural resources and agricultural resources. What have done but pander? FFS get a life.

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-24 09:34 PM

"What has Ukraine ever done for you?"

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what some other country can do for you!
JFK, probably

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-24 09:35 PM

Death to Putin
Death to Russia

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-24 10:22 PM

The Ukraine does not owe the USA a penny. All military support from the USA was declared a grant at the time it was made. Trump cannot revise history. Too many videos showing what was actually said and done before he ever got back into office.

#12 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-02-24 11:06 PM


Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what some other country can do for you!
JFK, probably

#10 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

So nothing.


The Ukraine does not owe the USA a penny. All military support from the USA was declared a grant at the time it was made. Trump cannot revise history. Too many videos showing what was actually said and done before he ever got back into office.
#12 | POSTED BY MODER8

Biden administration moves to forgive $4.7 billion of loans to Ukraine
www.reuters.com

Ukraine war escalates as Biden sends $20bn loan before Trump presidency
www.theguardian.com

There's more, but you get the idea..... you're full of ----.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-24 11:15 PM

@#8 .. Because they're broke --- ------- who cant even afford themselves? ...

Yet, the Ukrainian army fights on against an overwhelming foe.

Wouldn't that be a trait you might want in a defensive army?

www.defense.gov

... Hegseth said." In short, we want the biggest, most badass military on the planet." ...

Yeah, the Ukraine army looks to rise to that goal.


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-24 11:36 PM

President Volodomir Zelensky is a true leader, ready to resign the Presidency of Ukraine if it helps his country and brings peace. We don't hear Vladimir Putin saying he would resign for the benefit of Russia and bringing peace. If the Russian military is so mighty, why is the casualty count ten to one in favor of Ukraine? Since 24 Feb 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow has lost 868,320 soldiers. In comparison, estimates of Ukraine's losses are a fraction of Moscow's. Lastly, an international arrest warrant for war crimes was issued for Vladimir Putin, not Volodomir Zelensky. Source: The Hague

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-24 11:48 PM

@#15 ... President Volodomir Zelensky is a true leader ...

Yup.

It is not about him, it is about the Country he leads.

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-24 11:55 PM

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#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-24 09:33 PM
#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-24 09:34 PM
What has Ukraine ever done for you? ...
Because they're broke --- ------- who cant even afford themselves? Just an idea to ponder...

Have you and Tucker Carlson** been coached together? Because this is one of the stupidest talking points that Russian assets club of "Make America Go Alone" use to deflect from dictator Putin invading Ukraine to subjugate it, erase national identity and fold it into "glorious Russian Federation Empire" before moving on to subsume other countries ... "because they're broke --- ------- who can't even afford to defend themselves. Just an idea to ponder..."

** https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2022/a-mere-border-dispute/ :
TC: "Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every middle-class job in my town to Russia?" Carlson said as he then recited a rightwing tip sheet of pet causes.

So we know what Putin has done for "private messenger" Carlson - in addition to not calling him racist, he "educated" him on Russia-Ukraine "history" in the Moscow interview, and (instead of taking him hostage) let him have a tour of subway and "univermag" (department store/supermarket).

We know what Putin has been doing for his bully asset (aka "man of peace") Trump.

What has Putin done for you?

Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Baltics "have done nothing" for UK and the USA in 1938-1939, so Neville Chamberlain came back from Munich with "Peace for our time" surrender and Molotov-Ribbentrop signed non-aggression Pact - how did that work out?


What message does this send to Taiwan or other Asian "for now" ("for sale?") allies? What confidence do they have that Trump won't sell them out "for peace or treasure" the same way he sold out Kurds and Ukraine?

If anyone has fantasies of the US becoming "great again" going it alone ("America First" / No to "globalism") and divide the world with brutal dictators, then you don't know there has been a very bloody and expensive history of it not that long ago - it would be a very Cold World for the "isolated Americans":

https://time.com/7006686/history-america-first-dawes/ - History Shows How Dangerous 'America First' Really Is - September 10, 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee - America First Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tatum - Paul Tatum (doing business in Russia)
"This is entrepreneurs' heaven. There's no telling how quickly [Russia] could develop and how much it could look like the United States in a very short period of time." - Paul Tatum in 1994... gunned down in Russia in 1996.

TrumPutin wants the USA look like Russia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/31/russia-ukraine-rubio-trump/ - Counting up the costs if the U.S. chooses to lose in Ukraine - January 31, 2025

This is about the future - not "globalism" or transactional "who has done what / how much for whom" in the past.
Not getting the vibe yet?
__________

#17 | Posted by CutiePie at 2025-02-25 06:44 AM

"Yeah, Ukraine's military has faced and done well against the overwhelming force of Russia."

Because they're broke --- ------- who cant even afford themselves? Just an idea to ponder...

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds"

So lfhndthrds thinks that instead of giving Ukraine the aid in weapons and pther necessities to survive as a nation would be too burdensome for the richest nation on the planet? And do what? Send American troops there to fight? Or, perhaps just tell Trump's butt buddy to take whatever he wants from Ukraine because 1% of our Federal budget is too much to spend supporting an ally who is fighting a war, like it or not, that needs to be won if we want to prevent a much larger invasion of Europe? So the question falls back in lfthndthrds lap.... are we, the United States, going to just let Russia invade as much of Europe as they want because to fund the resistance to that would cost America less than 1% of our Federal Budget? Which effectively stopped Russia's invasion without any American troops in combat? Or should we just tell Ukraine and Zelensky to surrender because we don't want to pay the cost of them defending their country which is minimal compared to the costs of a war between NATO and Russia which is likely to happen if we won't fund Ukraine's defense. The U.S. is part of NATO with treaty obligations to assist them both financially and with military forces in the event of an invasiion from Russia. Ukraine pis not a member of NATO and thus has been fighting alone with our assistance and is prepared to continue as long as we assist them or lomger if we won't. The only reason the United States would decide not to do that is Donald Trump's personal relationship with Putin whatever that may be but America is not priveleged to know the nature of that relationship Trump owes to Putin?. So, we are just being told by Trump we can't afford to assist them any longer in spite of the actual small cost of doing so, Thus, we are left with no other explanation except that Donald Trump is personally indebted to Putin in some way that we are not privvy to. well, I and many other Americans think it is time for us to know what debt Trump owes to Putin?

#18 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-25 11:05 AM

Hey, Danni, they don't just need money. They need fighters. You care that much go over and volunteer to look for land mines. And post video on you tube should be fun to watch, you stupid ----.

#19 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-25 11:18 AM

#18 | Posted by danni

Funny how you'd rather keep feeding the war machine rather than come to a peaceful resolution. You old hippies sure did take hard turn at some point.

#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-26 07:54 AM

He's going to leave office and all he'll have to show for it are several pallets of cash from Biden's corrupt administration.

#21 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-02-26 01:40 PM

Has the bloated------------- given Putin the go ahead to put bounties on American soldiers again?

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-26 01:42 PM

"Funny how you'd rather keep feeding the war machine rather than come to a peaceful resolution. You old hippies sure did take hard turn at some point."

We took a hard turn? Looks to me that you Bush wear supporters are the ones who took the sharp turn. You supported the failed war for oil but the Ukraine war is against invaders from Russia trying to annex their country. So, war for oil good, war to defend country bAD! And let's not forget the war for oil failed whem the Iraqis refused to privatize the oil fields. Thus, Bush's stupid war which you stupid Republicans supported but now you're against Ukrainians defending their own country! Do you even understand how stupid you look? Or are you so stupid you can't even see it?

#23 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-26 06:54 PM

@#21 ... He's going to leave office and all he'll have to show for it are ...

Pres Putin expected his unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine to last for a week or two.

Now, we are in year three.

Pres Zelensky has shown that his leadership of Ukraine has been able to fight off a massive unprovoked invasion by a significantly more powerful country.

That is one of the many things he will have to show for his term in the presidency.

Meanwhile, Pres Trump is surrendering to Pres Putin, something that Pres Zelensky refused to do.

So, refusing to surrender to Pres Putin is something else that Pres Zelensky has done.



#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 07:16 PM

@#20 ... come to a peaceful resolution. ...

Surrender is not a peaceful solution.

It is, well, .... Surrender.

Let me ask a question from a different angle, why does your current alias think that Ukraine should back Pres Trump's surrender to Pres Putin? A surrender that occurred without Ukraine in the room?


#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 07:21 PM

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