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      A dictator would never offer to step down.

      Not good logic regardless of whether you think Zelensky is or is not a dictator. A dictator might if the terms he demanded for it were those that both parties of the conflict had already ruled out.

      Making an impossible ask is hardly a sign of being reasonable or truly willing to do a thing. If I tell you I’ll give you ten million dollars but only if you can settle the mess in Palestine with the the “israeli” state and the Palestinian people permanently I’m not seriously offering you ten million dollars, my ask is impossible. No one would say it’s a good faith offer on my part.

      Trump’s team has acknowledged NATO is not viable and doesn’t even want to commit US troops in the event of a ceasefire (something Russia refuses anyways), preferring it be a Europe problem and Russia categorically will not accept Ukraine in NATO. This is a FACT.

      This conflict started over eastward NATO expansion, one of the primary, if not the most primary goals of Russia in their fight is to stop Ukraine from becoming part of NATO and stationing western weapons/troops there near them.

      Russia is winning and the support of the US is waning. They are not going to accept having spent all that treasure and blood and taken all these sanctions and in the end not get their primary goal just to get Zelensky to step down for another person who hates Russia.

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      owning putin by stepping down after leading his country to a disaster, masterful act.

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      I hope the people see it for what it is.

      A loser petulantly asking for something he isn’t going to get, in exchange for something that’s going to happen any way.

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          It’s obvious to anybody with even a minimally functional brain that Ukraine won’t join NATO and will be divided between US and Russia now.

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          He’s not getting NATO membership and he is already on his way out as soon as the US decides so, surely you see that?

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            Or learn about that war in the first place. They think Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor was a documentary.

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            Much better. The US wouldn’t have had time to reward every single Nazi they could find with a job.

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    Zelensky offers to give up something he’s about to lose anyways in order to gain something that isn’t going to happen.

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    The man can get his country into NATO, I’d say he has earned his retirement.