Summary
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he is willing to resign if it ensures peace or NATO membership for Ukraine.
“If it is peace for Ukraine, and if you really want me to leave my post, I’m ready,” he said. “Alternatively, I can trade this for NATO membership… I’m focusing on Ukraine’s security today, not in 20 years.”
His comments come amid tensions with Donald Trump, who falsely suggested the Ukrainian president was responsible for starting the war.
Meanwhile, U.S.-Russia negotiations continue without Ukraine, which Zelenskyy firmly rejects. Zelenskyy emphasized the importance of Ukrainian involvement in any peace negotiations.
Ukraine isn’t going to join NATO anytime soon because that would mean WWIII. Zelensky is an authoritarian ruler like the rest. Ukrainian male beetween 18-60 haven’t been able to leave the country since 2022. The government is drafting people by force off the street. Martial law is dictatorship. Don’t get fooled by the propaganda, if another pig like donald trump would happen to be the president of ukraine during russian invasion you would be here praising him.
This comment shouldn’t have been censored.
The reasoning was “propaganda”, but it really just challenges Western-approved propaganda.
Censorship is alive and well on lemmy. Mods are happy to abuse their power to censor ideas they don’t like.
Make sure you click the dropdown menu and view “comment moderation history” to see what they’re trying to censor from us. Hopefully, we can have a feature one day that gives us the option to more-easily display censored content such as not hiding it in the first place or simply blurring it out until we click it.
Agreed. It may be someone spouting propaganda and ultimately a stupid point in context, but it’s still comment with the structure of an argument rather than a plain statement. Draft and not allowing certain demographics to leave are topics worth debating, even if it seems obviously acceptable in this kind of defensive existential situation.
If we want this to be a forum for healthy discussion and debate, it should be moderated in a way that is hopeful for that ideal rather than so fearful of bad actors that it undermines the ideal outright. But I’m not the moderator, maybe they just want a safe space for pro-Ukraine content, which people are in their right to create.
That’s so funny.
He is an authoritarian ruler, but the only examples you can provide are events that occurred AFTER the war started.
Russia attacked another country, but the guy desperately fighting off a world power is the bad guy.
Fuck you are stupid.
Are you even real?
Again this is russias fault. Zelenskyy is not a dictator.
Pretty sure this individual has an agenda, go look at their comment history.
When I get worked up I will absolutely make a few long posts, but this thread alone is a lot.
Wish I could tag users in lemmy/jerboa
Oh 100%. I’ve seen them before.
Yeah this person consistently has shit takes, I recognize that username as one of the more obnoxious users on lemmy, at least IMO.
Drafting people by force and not allowing any male between 18-60 to leave the country it’s ukranian government decision. Being invaded by someone doesn’t magically turn you into a hero.
Mkay, not a dictator? He’s considered a hero by many for defending their homes from a colonist actual dictator.
There could be two dictators.
Politicians don’t fight their wars. It’s a bunch of poor people like you and me that defend their homes and they don’t need rulers to do it.
He’s in Ukraine. Organizing running the country and visiting the front lines. Generals are needed in wars to organize things, even when they don’t fight. If Zelenskyy left Ukraine then sure. Also Zelenskyy is not a dictator.
While ukrainian people are risking their lives trying to cross the border to flee his authoritarian government he’s been touring the royal courts of world leaders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_presidential_trips_made_by_Volodymyr_Zelenskyy