Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
With Russia winning battle after battle in Ukraine, Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu is now floating arming Volodymyr Zelensky with nuclear weapons to use against Russia.
From Newsweek, “Only NATO or Nukes Can Save Ukraine From Russia: Estonia Foreign Minister”:
Estonia’s foreign minister urged NATO allies not to exclude Ukraine from the transnational alliance in exchange for peace with Russia, warning that doing so would strand Ukraine in a “grey zone” in which its only means of deterring further aggression from Moscow would be increasingly devastating weapons.
Urmas Reinsalu told Newsweek that the NATO alliance cannot ignore Kyiv’s accession ambitions—which he said remains the “elephant in the room”—while Russian revanchism poses a threat to Ukraine.
National leaders and NATO officials have defended the alliance’s “open door” policy, refusing Russian demands to exclude Ukraine and repeatedly assuring Kyiv that it will one day be welcomed into the transatlantic bloc, though stressing accession should be a long-term goal.
Reinsalu, now in his second stint as Estonia’s foreign minister, told Newsweek that NATO’s commitment to its “open door” policy and eventual Ukrainian membership is “far from being enough.”
“If we say that we would not in practice see Ukraine as a member of NATO after this war, it would mean that we are afraid—or predict that—Russia will attack again and then NATO countries will be involved in a world war, or at least a war over the European continent,” Reinsalu said.