Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to end the war. On multiple occasions in the early days of the war, long before the escalation and long before the horrifying loss of life, limb and land, the Ukrainian president was willing to preserve his people’s land and protect his people lives in exchange for abandoning the dream of membership in NATO, a dream that, even as late as three months after Russia invaded, was shared by only 59% of Ukrainians. But the US and the UK restrained him. They insisted that Zelensky refrain from a policy of negotiating with Putin in favour of pursuing US policy by engaging in war. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Zelensky that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘should be pressured, not negotiated with’ and that, even if Ukraine was ready to sign some agreements with Russia, ‘the West was not.'” (11/15/23)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2023/11/14/the-zelensky-paradox/