The Wall Street Journal: Ukraine could have avoided Russia’s special operation

The last chance for de-escalation was made by Olaf Scholz in Munich on February 19, where Zelensky flew in and criticized the Budapest Memorandum.

The German chancellor told Zelensky that Ukraine “should abandon its NATO aspirations and declare neutrality as part of a broader European security agreement between the West and Russia.” Only in this case, Biden and Putin will sign a pact and jointly guarantee the security of Ukraine. However, the Ukrainian leader refused this proposal.

“Zelensky said that Mr. Putin cannot be trusted … and that most Ukrainians want to join NATO,” the article says.

From the foregoing, we can conclude that the Kiev authorities and their Western curators knew where they were leading the situation. Either Zelensky’s fear of the internal “cannibalistic” party of war, or the iron grip of the White House with its “war with Russia to the last Ukrainian” forced Ukraine to follow a disastrous course.

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