Stop the Fake Outrage
Ukraine was never welcome in NATO and the 1991 borders were off the table too
I’m baffled.
Today, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dropped a “bombshell.”
During his Ramstein speech, he voiced two statements: a realistic outcome of the war is that Ukraine won’t be in NATO and will not return to its pre-2014 borders, i.e. liberating Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk.
As a Ukrainian, I believe that both of these things can be achieved. But as a person who’s been watching the West for the past decade doing from nothing to very little to something, I know that this cannot happen for a very simple reason: because the West doesn’t want any of this to happen.
For this reason, the outrage I’m seeing now on X and other social media handles genuinely puzzles me. Are we to say that the Biden administration wished differently? Or Obama's one? If so, please provide the evidence that would indicate that.
Because Ukrainians have known it for years so it is no wonder that I do not see the same outrage on my private social media where I mostly have Ukrainian friends and relatives.
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On November 5, America votes. For Ukraine, which will soon enter into its third year of war with Russia, these elections are paramount. Even more so since the country is bleeding and US aid barely making it to Ukraine, jeopardising the country’s present and future.
I can’t tell you either. An Alliance that identifies Russia as a direct threat continues to act as if it has fewer nuclear weapons and fewer soldiers and technology. It is a puzzling reality — yet indicative of its modern state of mind where throughout the years the only thing that’s changed is the line “Ukraine will become a NATO member state” to “Ukraine is now on an irreversible path.”
Very much reversible because it’s all talk.
And look how silent leaders of Germany, France, the U.K. are following Hegseth’s statements. Not a single one of them tweeted or issued a press release, stating that “Ukraine is on an irreversible path, we’ll fight for it.” You don’t have to guess why: they’re likely in on this, breathing a sigh of relief that they have to pretend no more.
Because that’s what it was: a grand act of pretence that cost us lives and human hope.
Now, take a deep breath, breathe out, and let it go.
We have a lot of work to do.
Yes, you are absolutely right. I believe Europe has been hiding behind the US, waiting for it to rescue them. That rescue is not coming. It should now be clear that Europe has to stand up or ultimately cede to Russia their eastern flank and become vassal states to Putin. Given Putin's incompetence in Ukraine this outcome is unimaginable except through a form of mass hypnosis.
was not this just history repeating itself?
perhaps this is the right time to remind minsk, istanbul, and the proxy war where eu decided to defeat russia on the battlefield fighting to the last ukrainian?