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Zelensky Once More Puts Allies Under Nuclear Shadow

Simplicius, Oct 19, 2024

A new central flashpoint around the issue of Ukraine obtaining nuclear weapons has suddenly taken hold of the narrative after Zelensky appeared to imply that Ukraine’s future can only be secured either via NATO or nuclear weapons. In fact, he said that’s what he explained to Trump and may be the real root kernel of his ‘Victory Plan’

Julian Roepcke at BILD went on to report that some high-ranking Ukrainian official disclosed that if given the order, Ukraine can build a nuke “within a matter of weeks”:

The Official specializing in weapons procurement, said in a closed round: “We have the Material, we have the Knowledge. If there is, the arrangement, we need only a few weeks until the first bomb.“

The West should be “less about Russia’s red lines, instead of thinking a lot more about our red lines,” the warning of the Official.

He was forced to defend himself after another round of backlash

However, after the report caused a firestorm, Zelensky’s press office was forced to issue an official refutation of Roepcke’s statements:

The Office of the President of Ukraine denied reports of the tabalid Bild that the Ukrainian authorities are allegedly seriously considering the possibility of restoring nuclear stockpiles.………………………

Interestingly, the above publication also notes the following, insinuating that as a last desperate line of defense Ukraine would rapidly obtain nukes if Russia were to assault Kiev again:

According to Bild analyst Julian Röpke, Zelensky’s statement came as a “shock” to Western journalists. He claims that a few months ago, a senior Ukrainian official allegedly told the publication and other members of a narrow circle of politicians and officials that Ukraine would not accept a second Russian army offensive on Kyiv.

“We have materials, we have knowledge. If there is an order, it will take us only a few weeks to get the first bomb. The West should “think less about Russia’s red lines and much more about our red lines,” the Ukrainian official said, according to the journalist.

Zelensky himself immediately began to walk back his statements after realizing the hot-water he may have landed himself in with his sponsors:

First a couple quick obligatory clarifications. Zelensky himself continues to spout the debunked lie that Ukraine “gave up its nuclear weapons” during the Budapest Memorandum.

Here’s the truth again:

First a couple quick obligatory clarifications. Zelensky himself continues to spout the debunked lie that Ukraine “gave up its nuclear weapons” during the Budapest Memorandum.

Here’s the truth again:

Ukraine never had control over those nukes. Secondly, it was revealed that it was actually the US itself rather than Russia that forced Ukraine to give up its nukes during that period, not wanting live nukes to fall into the hands of some failed state. Sure, Ukraine would not have been able to launch them, but could have potentially cracked them open and sold the enriched plutonium to bad actors on the black market………………………

October 21, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized