Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, Vance goes very badly

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jd-vance-and-family-flee-to-undisclosed-location-due-to-angry-mob-after-zelensky-fallout/ar-AA1A3ZDa

What was Vance doing in Bernie Country anyway? VT is not only the bluest state in the country, but their entire Congressional delegation is in the Progressive Caucus (Bernie, Peter Welch and Becca Balint).

an unbiased view of the Ukraine situation which pretty much says what I've been trying to say. Now I'm out.

Considering Russia's rejection of liberal democracy along with their expansionist policies regarding former its republics, it's understandable why former parts of the Soviet Union and its satelites have been requesting NATO membership. If anything, Putin's been pushing these countries into NATO.
Regardless, the NATO encroachment argument that makes Russia the actual good guy is just a pretext for Putin to gobble up his neighbors in order to rebuild the Russian Empire. It's no secret that Putin sees the fall of the Soviet Union as his country's greatest tragedy, and that he wants to destroy the west, in particular the United States, for revenge.

Putin isn't a good guy, he's an egotistical oligarch. Trump isn't a good guy either, he is a narcissistic oligarch. Zelenskyy isn't a good guy, he a corrupt puppet who sold his soul to people who have long lusted after control of Ukrainian resources. From what I've heard from Russian and Ukrainian friends is that controlling those rare earth minerals worth potentially trillions has always been what put Ukraine in the middle. USSR had control, then lost it, and Putin does indeed want it back for those resources.

The problem is that many other powerful people have lusted after control of Ukraine's resources since the demise of the Soviet empire, and they are willing to use NATO and war to get what they want. NATO is the tool that Western elites have long used to enact and support regime change in many regions on earth they wanted to control. Biden and his cronies were more than happy to send US taxpayer money to Ukraine, rumor has long been that they only sent a fraction of those funds to Ukraine and funneled the rest into their hidden stashes. This may very well be part of the problem now with Trump demanding repayment in mineral resources for full amount from Zelenskyy. I think he knows he got played by Biden and now he feels trapped in between Trump, Putin, and NATO with no way out for him or Ukraine.

Unbiased news literally doesn't exist, so you repeatedly insisting that she's unbiased is mostly an admission you're not able to evaluate bias effectively.

Zelensky is asking for permission to have the option to triggering mutually assured destruction
https://www.politico.eu/article/give-uk ... zelenskyy/

there are idiots in the EU who think its a good idea to hand over nuclear weapons to Zelensky. You will have to excuse the Indian media they aren't enamoured in joining the rush to destroy themselves in order to prop up a nationalist regime that happens to be anti-Russian.

1. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.

2. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

3. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.

4. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.

5. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm, in the case of Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a State in association or alliance with a nuclear-weapon State.

6. Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America will consult in the event a situation arises that raises a question concerning these commitments.

— Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine's Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons[13]

Biden and his cronies were more than happy to send US taxpayer money to Ukraine, rumor has long been that they only sent a fraction of those funds to Ukraine and funneled the rest into their hidden stashes.

Just whose puppet is Zelensky supposed to be? And just how is he supposed to be corrupt?
NATO the tool of western elites? Evidence please.
The Joe Biden the right has conjured up for the sake of political gain bears little resemblance to the real man. Rumors that he took advantage of Ukraine are just that: only rumors. I seriously doubt he's the money grubbing monster that Putin or Trump fit better with.
Putin wants more than just Ukraine's mineral wealth. He is hellbent on rebuilding the Russian Empire, which means gobbling up the former Soviet Republics.
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...The alliance, after all, was created in the aftermath of World War II to meet specific regional and situational strategic challenges posed by the Soviet Union. So long as it stayed within those original parameters and geographic limits, it successfully deterred the threat of Soviet expansionism in Europe.

However, as NATO’s mission devolved and lost its focus after the end of the Cold War, it has become increasingly apparent that the alliance has shed its defensive basis and been reconceived as an organization whose primary directive is to expand America’s sphere of influence globally through the continuous encroachment on various regional powers’ more immediate spheres of interest. NATO’s rhetoric and actions — especially since its intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999 — signal an intentional strategic shift toward adopting a globalized agenda, thereby facilitating its transition to become the global military arm for the U.S.-led liberal international order. Ironically, this rather aggressive and maximalist reorientation also puts America’s core national interests at risk. This systematic push for subordinating the strategic autonomy of NATO’s relatively powerful members to Washington’s priorities is often achieved through a neo-Wilsonian approach. This approach instrumentalizes the nationalism of smaller states to justify intervention abroad, diluting a more robust idea of American national interest here at home. The national self-determination of smaller states outside NATO is utilized to guilt and unify the alliance behind the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s priorities. In the process, this approach undermines the agency, sovereignty, and foreign policy of many allied states, not to mention those of the American people.

NATO’s new raison d’etre has thus become the global defense of smaller faultline nation-states — which are not party to the alliance — from revisionist great powers that dare to challenge U.S. global hegemony by insisting on their own historical sphere of interest. This is especially questionable in a world moving towards multipolarity and away from the stark binaries propagated by those who defend permanent U.S.-centered alliance networks using ideological frameworks and Cold War logic.

Given its highly bureaucratic and top-down structure, NATO displays intense disapprobation of member states that attempt to assert their own interests. This often occurs when member states seek new minilateral security arrangements with countries outside the alliance or even work together to sidestep the alliance and create more localized alternative arrangements.1 Such diplomatic and strategic maneuvers are particularly obstructed when their aims contradict NATO’s institutional agenda.