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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
B—-t. Russia does not face an “existential threat” from either NATO or Russia. That is not the motive for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Zelensky has withdrawn his request for Ukrainian membership in NATO. That is the one point on which he has “capitulated.” But successive Ukrainian governments have applied for membership in NATO since 2009. But NATO has always rejected these requests. NATO had already rejected Zelensky’s renewal of Uraine’s longstanding application for NATO membership some time before Russia invaded.
There has never been a realistic possibility that Ukraine would become a member of NATO because, as this colonal points out, the Europeans are dependent on Russian trade for their supplies of energy. For the same reason, there has never been any possibility that NATO would move troops into UKraine and use them to invade Russia. The Europeans would certainly never agree to such an attack, and it is also extremely unlikely that any American president would authorize such an attack. It would lead to war with Russia, with the possibility of nuclear attacks on the United States and Russia.
Putin’s actual motive for attempting to conquer Ukraine is that he wants to return Russia to its glory under the tsars and under the Soviet Union, when it ruled vast areas of Europe and Central Asia that it withdrew from in 1991, under the Yltsin government. He has made this clear in his numerous speeches and published articles over the past several months. He has not tried to hide them. Putin’s apologists in the U.S. ignore his own statements in an effort to whitewash him.