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This is standard dictator behavior, giving up power for the benefit of their people.
I think you're being downvoted because you're missing the /s
If this needs to add /s then the downvoters have room temperature IQ.
... In centigrade.
Well a meat locker is a kind of room.
They're getting downvoted because the average Lemmy user is terminally incapable of reading the room.
To be fair, sarcasm doesn't really convey through text
This has been known since the dawn of the internet
huh?
Funny time to do it, once he's lost the war, had Ukrainians kidnapped straight onto the frontlines, and once negotiations are taking place without him (which might end with him in front of a jury). Not to mention member states have already taken it off the table which means "I'm not going at all". Might as well have said his only demand is to marry the tooth fairy.
But sure, y'all just keep fetishizing yet another western puppet who called off elections but did it "for the right reasons."
Do you support concession of the currently occupied territories?
Lmao. Might as well ask me if I condemn Hamas too. It doesn't matter what I support or don't support, what matters is what the people of the region support and have the ability to enforce. The DNR and LNR seceded after the US financed coup violated their democracy. Those territories were occupied from 2014 to 2022 by a US vassal, and you can tell by the endless patrols and bombing they endured.
The man can get his country into NATO, I’d say he has earned his retirement.
I'm confused by anyone who demands Ukraine should cede territory and denies they can ever join NATO. Have fun seeing Crimean/Ukrainian/etc. conflicts repeat every few years while Russia keeps learning the lesson that imperialism is back in style. Are these people literal children, or Russian bots?
Ukraine agreed to give up their nukes as part of the Budapest Memorandum which Russia shat on, and the United States showed how little their security assurances were worth. The sad reality now is Ukraine could be admitted to NATO tomorrow and it would not matter one bit, because our current president believes himself a king who cannot be forced to abide any previous treaty, law, or norm of human decency.
Right, Russia simply shat on the Budapest Memorandum unprovoked; the West and Ukraine didn’t shit on any promises and accords beforehand. And history began exactly three years.
Speaking of "literal children": people like you who don't know the difference between "is" and "ought"
Is NATO membership still a valid goal to pursue?
Obviously not since the agreement amongst existing members has to be unanimous.
"Valid" as in feasible? No. The war was started to keep Ukraine out of NATO, and Ukraine wasn't fully backed by NATO in the war because it isn't willing to go to war with Russia just for Ukraine.
I'm not an expert, but have read a decent amount on this. Others may have more and better info.
With that said, even if an Article 5 invocation won't bring the US into your fight, it provides a hefty infrastructure of value to countries in it. From basing, to logistics, to intelligence, to aid, it is valuable. Now the politics of it are complicated and the US can hinder some of that value, but it still means that in Europe if Russia provides an Article 5 reason, other countries in NATO can choose to help in various forms. That's not nothing. It's also faster and less arduous then negotiating individual defense treaties with neighbors and others.
So yes, overall probably still worth it. Even if just as an entree into other alliances.
i think the thread starter question is more about if nato is even about to continue existing
From what I'm seeing out of Germany, NATO isn't going anywhere. The US might not be a continuing part of it.
Also there's still an off chance China might play a part in Ukraine. They have Putin by the short and curlies, and could offer a better deal than the US for mineral rights. It might hinge on if Trump pisses off Xi with this trade war crap, or gets in the way of him taking Taiwan.
Sure, in the way The Spiders From Mars didn't go anywhere after Bowie fucked off.