Zelensky: Putin Should Think Twice About Nuclear Strike Inside Ukraine

Ukrainian president has ruled out peace negotiations with the Kremlin

FILE: Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will fight for every inch of land now under Russian control.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a think tank Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be considering the fallout if he decides to make good on his nuclear threats.

Zelensky told the Lowy Institute, the Australian think tank, that Putin would need to consider that a decision to go nuclear would change everything, and the world would “never forgive” him, according to The Associated Press.

“He understands that after the use of nuclear weapons he would be unable any more to preserve, so to speak, his life, and I’m confident of that,” Zelensky said.

Zelensky’s comments come shortly after it was revealed that the Ukrainian leader signed a decree that formally identified peace talks with Putin’s Russia impossible after Russia annexed four regions after referendums that were written off by the West as a “sham.”

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Ukraine also announced that it reapplied for NATO membership after the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia. Responsible Statecraft noted that part of Zelensky’s argument was that Putin has said his country is fighting the U.S. and the “entire Western military machine.”

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The West is more interested in having the Ukrainians fight in its proxy war with Moscow. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said Ukraine’s NATO application should be taken up “at a different time.”

In June, we reported that Ihor Zhovkva, the deputy chief of staff for Zelensky, said in an interview Tuesday that Kyiv was told by NATO that it is “not a member because we do not want you.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will defend the annexed regions as though they are part of Russia.

Zhovkva made the comment shortly after the Alliance announced that Turkey agreed to allow Finland and Sweden to join.

“NATO is telling us we are not giving you anything,” he said in an interview with a local news outlet in Kyiv, according to Bloomberg.

Some could argue that Ukraine was the victim misleading public statements from the U.S. and NATO prior to the invasion. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Moscow would be met with a“forceful” response if there was an invasion. Blinken went further and said the U.S. has a "sacred obligation" to defend its allies.

Under Article 10 of the 1949 Washington Treaty, NATO has the right to invite any willing European country into the fold. But Stoltenberg made it clear, before the invasion, that there is a distinction between a NATO partner and ally. Kyiv is a partner. NATO is compelled to only defend allies. NATO countries never embraced Ukraine as an ally because it meant certain war with Russia.

TREND FORECAST: As The Trends Journal pointed out before the war, the U.S. will not go to war with Russia over Ukraine. The military in Ukraine is no match against the Russians, and its only hope for security in the future is to become a member of NATO, which will not happen.