Sky News Breaking: Zelenskyy suggests he's prepared to end Ukraine war in return for NATO membership

[Xolodno]

74. Going to have to disagree with you a bit.

I think Putin is willing to continue this war all the way to the Dnipro, maybe even take the south all the way to Transdniestria and he has stated he might make another play at Russia's first capital, Kyiv. Then and only then he will be OK with the rest of Ukraine joining NATO as he doesn't see it as traditional Russian territory. But by then, Ukraine may not be viable as a country.

Short of that, any NATO membership will be a non starter. I remember Biden stating at the start of this war he wanted to put Ukraine in a position of strength in an eventual negotiation. Somewhere along the line, the idea became push Russia out of everything and join NATO, which was and is naive.

But I do agree that those saying Putin going after the Baltics and Poland is just, well, stupid. At his age, if he had any intention of doing so, he would have mobilized the entire country (something else that gets lost on many, he hasn't done so) and done it already.