Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky was out of his depth the moment he agreed to run for office. He had been a comedic actor in Ukraine and star of a television series where a gormless high-school teacher is accidentally elected president of that unfortunate country. Such was the desperation of the people of Ukraine for a politician who wasn't an obvious crook that Zelensky, the actor, was accidentally elected president of Ukraine in May 2019. One of the policies he was elected on was an end to the war in the Donbass and peace with Russia. Of course, while that was a popular policy among the war-weary Ukrainian people, it was not a popular policy with the Ukrainian oligarchs, Ukrainian Nazis and their US and UK sponsors. So, from day one, Zelensky's policy became one of eternal enmity with Russia and the recovery of the Donbass and Crimea by military means.
Since 2019, Zelensky has shown himself to be an incompetent and unreliable puppet, making unpredictable announcements, contradicting his US paymasters, but it was his announcement at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday 19th February 2022 that sealed his and his country's fate. Russia has publicly stated and restated her security red-lines in Ukraine and its near-abroad for nearly fifteen years now - the Ukraine must be neutral (e.g., not in NATO) and not be used as a launchpad for an attack on Russia. That included a ban on the placement of both tactical and strategic weapons systems on Ukrainian territory. Since the 2014 revolution, Ukraine has declared Russia an aggressor and enemy nation, sought entry into NATO, and has become a storehouse for tactical and strategic weapons systems, waiting for the opportunity to attack Russia. Russia's complaints have fallen on deaf ears in the west, but there is nothing wrong with Russian hearing. When the Soviet Union was dissolved, Russia took possession of the Soviet nuclear arsenal and the non-Russian independent nations agreed to abide by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by not seeking nuclear weapons. So, when Zelensky announced at Munich that Ukraine would revoke its commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and would reconstitute its nuclear weapons program, the Z-Day clock began ticking down in Moscow. https://detv.us/2022/02/28/ukraine-renounces-obligations-under-the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty/
On Day One, Zelensky was not heard from for many hours to the shut-down of communications, but by afternoon had begun making speeches and contacting his European and US sponsors. Those telephone calls must have been fun as he came to understand that despite what he had been told about 'solidarity against Russian aggression', that was all meaningless platitudes as NO ONE was going to go to war with Russia over Ukraine.
This was the moment when reality comes up out of the darkness and delivers a swift, hard kick in the nuts. Zelensky did what he needed to do, what he should have done in 2019, he called Moscow and asked for negotiations to commence. The response from Moscow as brief for the time for negotiations has passed. Moscow's terms have already been articulated on 22 February 2022.
1. Russia is immediately ready to start negotiations after the Armed Forces of Ukraine lay down their arms.
2. Ukraine must be demilitarized.
3. Ukraine must be denazified.
4. Russia will no longer allow the Nazis to rule Ukraine.
Shades of April 1945. There is nothing more to talk about. The process must move forward.
Marshall Zhukov accepting the German surrender 8 May 1945.
Day Two: https://stolzuntermenschen.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-ukrainian-de-nazification-operation.html
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