Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky refuses to negotiate a peace settlement as long as Vladimir Putin remains president of Russia. He made this claim in a post on his official Telegram channel on Friday.
Zelensky blamed Russia for the failure of negotiations, claiming he had
"always offered Russia coexistence on equal, honest, dignified and fair terms, obvious this is impossible with this Russian president. We are ready for a dialogue with Russia, but ... with another president of Russia."Zelensky has repeatedly rejected overtures of peace from Moscow, most recently turning down Putin's offer on Friday to resume negotiations. What made the offer a non-starter for Kiev is that Putin refused to relinquish the regions that voted this week to join Russia. Zelensky declared in his address:
"Only the path of strengthening Ukraine and expelling the occupiers from our entire territory will restore peace."Zelensky also confirmed that Ukraine had submitted an accelerated application to join NATO on Friday, something he previously admitted was probably never going to happen. While Western media described the move as "more symbolic than practical," the Ukrainian president argued that Sweden and Finland were able to apply on an accelerated basis even without a Membership Action Plan and it was thus only "fair" that Ukraine do the same. He said in another Telegram post.
"De facto, we have already completed our path to NATO. De facto, we have already proven interoperability with the Alliance's standards ... We trust each other, we help each other and we protect each other."Zelensky has previously acknowledged Ukraine might struggle to secure the consent of all 30 NATO member nations, pushing instead for the so-called Kiev Security Compact, which would oblige NATO's core members to defend Ukraine "in case of aggression" while codifying the provision of bottomless military and financial aid as a stopgap measure, admitting Ukraine would draw NATO into immediate confrontation with Russia, under the Article 5 mutual defense provision.
While the US is committed to the 'open door' policy when it comes to NATO, now is the wrong time to consider Ukraine's membership application, President Joe Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on Friday.
The move would also make peace with Moscow impossible, as Putin has made it clear since before the military operation began in February that Ukraine must remain a neutral country under all circumstances.
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Just now, all I can say is she is the love of my life.
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ole piano dicky one *elensky probably ain't gonna be talking to anybody soon
Do you want to place a bet on it?
And how are you doing friend?? I forgot to ask yesterday, I think it was Day 7(?)
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about Nova Scotia woes, at least most of that province has power, unlike this province who basically went completely dark. Ah the foibles of island life!
7 hours of playong pick-up is alotttt of branches.
Dip a small basin or tub-like thing in the saltsea water amd bathe your twinkle toes whilst sipping your beer🍻 You feel so much better!!
Your campfires must be grand and this adventure memorable. Enjoy the quiet of it, while it lasts. The rest will work itself out.
Something was lucky for you yesterday... not sure what. Not the freebeer more than that
Yes exactly as I felt for JTF. Some of us are born campers 😍
Hot bath will feel good eh???😜
First night of the bonfire (Thursday night):
- while throwing maple branches onto the fire, we saw a red light (that would sometime blink white) pass over head, do some crazy loops, then blip out.
- this sightings would last 5-10 secs
- each time it would appear, it appeared from a different direction (N - S - E - W)
- When we first noticed it, it was well past us and high up, to our SW
- Then for the next 20 mins, each time the fire flared up, it would appear briefly out of nowhere, directly above us, do some wiggling around, then disappear.
- It was not the embers rising from the fire either, as standing well away from the fire the light would appear way up.
- This all stopped, once we went to get our camera's
Last Night bonfire (Saturday night)
- White lights (two) appeared several times throughout the night, off on our horizons, 1 to out SW and the other to the W
- The lights were ground level, bobbing around, then blinking out.
- The lights were white
- They were against/ lower than the tree line on the horizon, across the farm land.
- This went on for hours
- I took some video. Looking at the video is hard to tell any details other than the light, moving around. My arms were rested on the fence. The camera perspective, was not capturing what our eyes were seeing.
We've seen multiple moving white lights, low on the horizon, several times throughout the summer. Always tree line and moving weirdly, almost drone like, but definitely not a drone, because of the extremely quick loopy loops they do. Also saw lots of supposed satellites doing weird stuff, like not seeing anything, then suddenly a light brighter than the stars go tracking by (straight) then blink out. Like they are taking night-time pictures. This I have seen increasing the last 3 years. I even saw them pause for 5-10sec, before continuing on. I just call them moving lights, most behave normal, but more and more are not. Some wiggle and do loop de loops as they pass overhead, before continuing their straight pass across the sky. Definitely not planes.
It's dark in the country side. The lights we seen this week were lights we never seen in those area's, especially after midnight. It's farm land and no farmers are out that late. One thought is it could be government drones doing nighttime field assessments, but....what we saw was definitely weird and not normal for this area. Even when the power is on everywhere.
So, I'm not sure if that was my luck. Thoughts?
1st up, you are not alone.
2nd, I had your 1st experience when I attended a VIP workshop in UpState NY 17 years ago... we were also a group witnessing, the bopping white lights....
4 days ago a girlfriend here had a flashing orange light on the ground and was very perplexed.
None of us are nutso's, au contraire.
(I'm not much savy about those types of manifestations, other than we are accompanied. Thank GOD not only by MF'n arseholes.
Keep your head up, move deliberately, the ride is wild now... tempering down early December. Link below for my godchild, codis
This just makes me want to get into Canada even more in the dark of night.....probably, I'll do it on Lake Erie.
Wish me luck!
Ken
Lights in the woods or tree line are not a good thing. Willow - O - Wisps are not nice entities.
Did some recon early last night. Was able to identify the lights west of us as house lights on another hill about 3km away. The lack of leaves on the trees, allow for it to shine through.
The tree line that is south, there are no lights that far back in the farmers field.
I will keep you all posted if I see more in the coming nights. I hope we get power restored today to our area. Just want a hot shower, we all do.
there is a way you can get you some hot water if you have some simple ingredients you know...
stay safe and enjoy the memories
Ken
How are your plants doing, now that they got some rain?
Two ghost pepper plant I intend on digging out of the ground and transplanting.
It is gonna be shame to take down all the tobasco plants nearby, but a freeze will happen soon and I want to harvest as much as I can.
Thanks for asking and I hope things settle down for you and your kin....it can be stressful to be without, but also can't deny tis a great way to learn on the fly.
Yours Truly,
Ken
Shedding also happening. Nothing to be nervous about.
Let's keep holding Sacred Space for our Ken n Gang🎈
Enjoy the schufflin' y'all
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And 👋 to our RC 🦔
(ha, ha, ha........hurricanes - can't live with em and can't live without em either.....
Truly,
Ken
Honestly, I think it would do wonders for Ukrainian military's moral if Zelensky would grab up a rifle, head to the front and die for country.
Did you not know dying is a goyim job ?
He wants to make another Israel out of Ukraine like he said, so no "jews" can die in this war - who'd populate the land afterwards, if not them? Of course, it means all the Slavs living there have to die, but that's entirely fine, as they are not religiously prohibited from Army service or death
Ashkenazi are anti-Semitic and NOT Semitic themselves
I saw that the Jerusalem post had nominated Zelensky as #1 most influential Jew in the world for 2022. It seems they are extremely proud of him for some reason. Maybe it's because he's doing his part so well to "make Ukraine like one big Israel". Maybe even.. a greater Israel?
The Time magazine awarded Hitler "Man of the Year" in 1938.
Perhaps you can even get a copy ... : [Link]
Zelensky: Runs away from Putin like a gutless coward, signs death warrant for thousands,
Hitler signed the capitulation documents neither.
He reeks
Look, Triffon again, the beginning re: die alte kuh
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Only, not impressed by this very prediction about *elensky's future. I see if I can get trough this.
I just can't listen to protracted concatenations of common and vague innuendos.
As an engineer, I need some tangible facts after all ...
Ich war nur am ketzern
This world sure takes a whole lot of a whole lot of patience.
But remember. Our 5 senses are of the Material World = 1%
Our 6th Sense is of the Spirit World = 99%
We need two feet to walk our journey.
Trifon did a few of those, the former one not. Thus my brain just tuned out ...
I get you.
You do have much patience, and it is ok...
Brains are not all wired in the same way that is why success takes a team effort.