Zelensky Admits Ukraine May Never Join NATO, Despite Bullshit from U.S.
NATO does not want Ukraine as a member because it does not want to fight Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be coming to terms with what the Trends Journal has said since before the Russian invasion: Kyiv will not become a member of NATO.
KISSINGER DEAD AT 100, WRONG TO THE VERY END
Zelensky was asked about Ukraine’s future security apparatus and said Kyiv cannot depend on NATO.
“We don’t know how it will turn out… No one will be able to answer that for sure. Either we will be in NATO, or we won’t be in NATO. We want to, but…,” he told reporters, according to RT, the Russian outlet.
Zelensky reportedly made the comment shortly after Bullshit Blinken said “Ukraine is well on the path of NATO.”
Russia has identified NATO membership for Ukraine as its ultimate red line and the West has been sensitive about the matter.
In August, Stian Jenssen, the chief of staff for NATO head Jens Stoltenberg, was forced to issue a mea culpa after stating that Ukraine may be willing to cede land for membership.
The U.S.’s position on the war has been clear. Russia’s invasion was illegal and Ukraine has every right to fight for its territory. The West, while claiming it is not officially involved in the conflict, has been providing near-limitless weapons support, intelligence, and has been training Ukrainian forces to fight as NATO members would.
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the 1990 declaration that “it is written in black and white that Ukraine is a neutral state” and he called its neutrality “of fundamental importance.”
“Why the West began to drag Ukraine into NATO is not very clear to us. But this created, in our opinion, a fundamental threat to our security,” Putin said.
About three weeks before the first Russian tank rolled into Ukraine, we forecast that, “Despite its bluster, NATO is not interested in taking on Ukraine as a member, and everyone knows this, so it is unclear why the Alliance is grandstanding on the matter.”
When Zelensky reapplied for membership in September 2022, Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters that it was not the right time. (Since 2008, NATO promised Ukraine that it will eventually be a member. The main benefit of NATO membership is Article 5 protection, which states an attack on one member is an attack on all.)
TRENDPOST: Before the Ukraine War was officially launched we had forecast that Russia would defeat Ukraine. As Russian forces keep pushing back the Ukraine army, as Ukraine’s economy sinks deeper in depression and as the continuing news of Ukrainian government corruption makes the headlines, the support to keep fighting the war among the Ukrainian people will dissipate and Russians will get what they want.
Indeed, Russia now controls some 20 percent of Ukraine that they did not have before the war began on 24 February 2022, and as we had forecast, Ukraine’s counter-offensive would fail…which it has.
Zelensky lashed out in July when he started to see that he was bullshitted by the U.S. about NATO.
Zelensky rankled the West when he took to Twitter after learning that there will be no NATO membership anytime soon.
“It’s unprecedented and absurd when the time frame is not set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine’s membership. While at the same time vague wording about ‘conditions’ is added even for inviting Ukraine. It seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance,” he posted on X. “This means that a window of opportunity is being left to bargain Ukraine’s membership in NATO in negotiations with Russia. And for Russia, this means motivation to continue its terror.”
Sullivan, responded by saying Washington deserves a “degree of gratitude” for its support up until this point.
Ben Wallace, the minister of defense in the U.K., also said Britain is “not Amazon” when it comes to providing weapons and indicated that it might go over well in the future for Ukrainian leadership to show more gratitude.
Readers of The Trends Journal understand that the conflict is much more nuanced than is being reported. Blinken, who made a fortune working with defense contractors when he’s not in politics, failed to recognize Russia’s legitimate security concerns about NATO expansion in Ukraine. Russia saw the West’s military relationship with Ukraine as an existential threat and was willing to go to war.
As detailed in The Los Angeles Times back in May of 2016, “…hundreds of memos, meeting minutes and transcripts from U.S. archives indicate otherwise.”
“According to transcripts of meetings in Moscow on Feb. 9, then-Secretary of State James Baker suggested that in exchange for cooperation with Germany, the U.S. could make ‘iron-clad guarantees’ that NATO would not expand ‘one inch eastward.’ Less than a week later, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to begin reunification talks.
“No formal deal was struck, but from all the evidence, the quid pro quo was clear: Gorbachev acceded to Germany’s western alignment and the U.S. would limit NATO’s expansion,” the article read.
The Gorbachev Foundation’s record of the Soviet leader’s meeting with James Baker in 1990 supported Gorbachev’s claim that NATO would not continue to expand.
Baker: I want to ask you a question, and you need not answer it right now. Supposing unification takes place, what would you prefer: a united Germany outside of NATO, absolutely independent and without American troops; or a united Germany keeping its connections with NATO, but with the guarantee that NATO’s jurisprudence or troops will not spread east of the present boundary?
Gorbachev: We will think everything over. We intend to discuss all these questions in depth at the leadership level. It goes without saying that a broadening of the NATO zone is not acceptable.
Baker: We agree with that.