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2022-03-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukraine says no longer insisting on NATO membership

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Posted by Fred 2022-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Oh fuck off, Little Big Man. Take Victoria Nuland, Pyatt, Jake Sullivan and the whole slapstick troupe with you.

Just to clarify: So now that little shit whom Blinken Wanken and Nod(ding Off) encouraged to believe he could receive NATO membership is saying he doesn't want NATO membership. And his armies are capitulating all over the Donbas. And his absurd demand to take back Crimea's been quietly memory-holed.

So we're back to Minsk II. Only now there are thousands of dead Ukrainians and millions of Americans and Europeans are now significantly poorer. And will be for a long time, maybe forever.

What exactly was this all about, then?

Biggest foreign policy fuckup in US history. Depose these shitheads before they destroy us all. November can't arrive soon enough.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 03:56|| 2022-03-09 03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 "This is another ultimatum and we are not prepared for ultimatums."

...says the little man who's agreeing now to every key ultimatum made.

Why did we hitch our wagon to this little prick? For what? So that China could take our place in the world?

Regime change now. In Washington and Kiev both.

Btw the offer to assassinate Zelensky if the FSB assassinates Putin still stands.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 04:45|| 2022-03-09 04:45|| Front Page Top

#3 when is the last time the leadership and or powers that be of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA actually done the right thing for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and ONLY for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? CANNOT REMEMBER HUH DID NOT THINK SO notice no k in AMERIKA! How are the special K forces today still playing nice and drinking together?

Posted by Greng Black3494 2022-03-09 07:13|| 2022-03-09 07:13|| Front Page Top

#4 It was never really about NATO. Turkey's a member and nobody's coming to their aid or giving them strategic advantage. It's about the EU, and it'll start again two years from now unless Zelensky is replaced.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-09 09:32|| 2022-03-09 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Take him out, the sooner the better

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 09:33|| 2022-03-09 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 There must be a polonium atom with his name on it somewhere.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-09 09:39|| 2022-03-09 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe he realized that if Team Brandon had been serious about this whole endeavor, the arming and treaty process would have been going on since before "they were confident in their intelligence" Russia organizing a military action.

I seem to remember something about Russian boomers setting off back in November as first public real indicators.

Or, at the least, caches of anti-tank weapons along routes of incursion, four weeks ago.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 11:09|| 2022-03-09 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 limited incursion FIFY

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-09 11:12|| 2022-03-09 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe SEATO could work them in?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-09 11:14|| 2022-03-09 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Can't believe that Biden is done wagging the dog already. Maybe it's just Zelensky getting tired of being wagged.

But I can't believe his claim that the alliance is afraid of controversial things and confrontation with Russia. Judging by the way Putin's army has performed in Ukraine, I don't believe that Poland needs to worry.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-09 11:35|| 2022-03-09 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Ukrainian President Zelenskyy‘s government comprises comedians, actors, entertainment executives, and mostly American foreigners. In addition 80% of military leadership are American, and 90% of Ukrain’s wealthy live in Europe or the United States.

Zelensky himself is neither Russian, or Polish, he’s Jewish.

Ukraine is a phoney ‘shadow country’ created to commit and profit from crime.

Posted by Baldassarre 2022-03-09 11:56|| 2022-03-09 11:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Zelensky's (small) fortune is parked in Londongrad real estate and money-laundering vehicles domiciled in the British Virgin Islands.

The Panama Papers confirmed that - despite his denials - Zelensky is tightly linked to corrupt Ukrainian bandit billionaire Igor Kolomoisky. That would be the same bastard the Biden admin hit with sanctions last year.

#Shitshow

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-09 12:13|| 2022-03-09 12:13|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ wait what? So... Biden and Blinken slapped sanctions on Kolomoisky because they thought he was pro-Russian, and then they encouraged and supported Kolomoisky's protege Zelensky?

WTF?

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-09 12:47|| 2022-03-09 12:47|| Front Page Top

#14 ima needa new scorecard
Who's pitchin agin?

Posted by Muck Fer Doo Fer U 2022-03-09 16:40|| 2022-03-09 16:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Muck fake - drop the alias

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-09 20:52|| 2022-03-09 20:52|| Front Page Top

#16 Zelenskyy said he is no longer pressing for NATO membership for Ukraine

Yeah, now that NATO stood him up on prom night. Pity we could not have arrived at this point more directly.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-09 21:13|| 2022-03-09 21:13|| Front Page Top