NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Tuesday that the alliance shouldn’t be talking about what a peace process would look like for Ukraine but should instead be focused on sending more weapons to the country.
Ahead of the start of a two-day NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Rutte was asked about potential offers to help bring an end to the war and said, “I would argue, let’s not have all these discussions step by step on what a peace process might look like. Make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to get to a position of strength when those peace talks start, when the Ukrainian government has decided they are ready to do so.”
Rutte said the meetings of NATO foreign ministers will be focused on how to get more weapons to Ukraine. “So I would say more military aid and less discussions on what a peace process could look like,” he said.
Rutte’s comments align with the Biden administration’s plans to pour as many weapons as they can into Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on ending the war, is inaugurated on January 20, 2025. In recent weeks, President Biden has signed off on significant escalations, including NATO-supported long-range strikes in Russia and the provision of widely banned anti-personnel mines.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky recently suggested that he could temporarily cede territory to Russia in exchange for NATO protection over Ukraine, which marks a shift in his previous position that the war could only end once Russia is driven out by force. But the new suggestion is still a non-starter for Moscow since Russia’s main demand has been Ukrainian neutrality and it won’t accept an arrangement that gives Ukraine NATO membership.
More warmongering from the ever peaceful NATO.
Mark Rutte is one of those people Earth will be better without.
There is one thing good about Rutte in conjunction with NATO. He does possess the reverse Midas touch: everything golden turns to shit in his hands. Now, NATO already was pretty much a steaming pile of imaginary dragon dung before he arrived, but he might even turn that tangibly into some proper shit. You'll know it when he stands jovially chuckling next to it, holding up his hands, maintaining to have no recollection of how he pulled off that feat.
I like mark Rutte
Well yes, perhaps not let him touch you.
Are you Dutch?
OTAN n Bomb, OTAN n Bomb! La de da de de dum di dum…
l'Organisation Treaté du Atlantique Nord
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
All NATO leaders know that a vote today for adding Ukraine to NATO would fail and they are not sure if addition would ever pass. They also know that Putin will never voluntarily return Crimea to Ukraine. Putin considers Crimea to be Russian land. Hence a NATO attack for returning Crimea will be equal to a US et al attack on Russia.
And with the word of one obscure official, shell factories materialized and the political winds shifted. Not. He can keep his head in the sand humming tunes he likes a bit longer I guess.
The Ukrainian military is executing Russian prisoners of war.
Volodymyr Zelensky banned the past election cycle so he and his administration are illegitimate in the Kremlin's opinion.
President Trump and America may receive 5-15 minutes of fame with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his national security team.
I had a fleeting conversation with a Polish online troll yesterday. He lives near a buried US nuclear missile battery (Warsaw). He became reflexively paranoid when discussing dead Russian prisoners.
Heaven forbid that we should talk about peace when there's a war to fight!
Come on, they went through all that trouble to set the caper up, they want to maximize the takeout, no? I mean, hundreds of billions are great, but who'd say not to a few more $$$?
Russia is a liar
1st they got their propogandists here in Poland to say that Russia only wanted the east and now they are content
Then they say that they only want up to the Ukrainian Dnieper?
Now they say that they want all of Ukraine to surrender without terms?
Whats next? For Russia to annex all of ukraine? Even that is already starting to become a trope
Knapp was right about you.
What did I do?
Russia never wanted the war. They tried to avoid it. Multiple times. They tried to avoid annexing Eastern and Southern Ukraine, resisted it when asked of them by the inhabitants of those areas.
They don't want Western Ukraine. The West doesn't really want Western Ukraine, that is a bottomless money hole, the money is in the Eastern Part (referring you to the lectures on the economic aspects of precisely this subject by Lindsey Graham: "Ukraine is a gold mine of about 12 trillion dollars worth of critical minerals.") – Yes well it is really about democracy of course.
And so the West has their eyes on the prize and cannot come to terms with the fact that they lost. So they keep escalating and driving up the costs of their defeat and at the cost of senseless loss of Ukrainian lives, but then that is not of any concern or consequence to them.
And so Russia has to deal with the fact that what is left of Ukraine cannot be used by the West again to threaten them in the future, because they realize that this is precisely what the West is absolutely intent on doing. We have proven time and again – right now with an escalation in Syria and an attempt at a color revolution in Georgia and so on – what to expect of us. A freeze of the conflict cannot therefore be acceptable. And so while the US and their silly European lapdogs are preventing a workable solution to the conflict, Russia is also left with no option to end the conflict. And so we remain steadfast and stupid on the road to Armageddon, closing down every escape route plowing forward.
“Russia says chances of negotiations with Ukraine are “zero.”
No, they didn't say that. They said they see no grounds for negotations, because negotations have to be about compromise. Why no grounds? Well, Ukraine (read the US, because despite the tranparantly false retoric to the contrary, they are the actual deciders here) do not acknowledge the realities underlying such negotations and further they don't want resolution to the conflict but to freeze the conflict to again light it up at a more convient time for the US. And Biden would like to lift it over Trump's inauguration, leaving the disaster of his making to Trump. Trump meanwhile seems oblivious (ignorance being the entire basis for his arrogance). Therefore there is not a chance at this junction to there being a point to have negotations, which is a completely different thing to what you said.
Is this CV that was banned?
Still only 90% sure. And even if it is:
1) If he doesn't violate the guidelines, I don't really need to know.
2) If he does violate the guidelines, he's gone whether he's CV or not.
https://www.rt.com/news/608714-nato-naval-drones-fleet/
NATO to launch naval drone fleet – admiral
The bloc plans to have sea surveillance in the Atlantic and Mediterranean by next June, a senior official has told Defense News
NATOexit.
Soon it will not matter what Mark Rut of the small Netherlands wants. Voters have a habit of voting out governments that unduly freeze their citizens.
NATO is a vestigial organ of the Cold War and may soon be removed like an infected appendix.
Nato is a nearly perfect instrument of MICIMATT … it creates jobs for the connected, $$$ for the people who matter, and keeps the Euro satraps in line … who could ask for more?
Ukraine is used by western countries for obsolete arms disposal dumping ground.Funny we never hear from globalists abut perpetual wars carbon foot print.Her Schwab connen sie mich horen????
ONLY FOOD PRODUCTION IS MAKING CARBON FOOT PRINT