Not long ago, the Biden administration's sentence that "Russia is about to launch an attack on Ukraine on February 16" frightened the whole country of Ukraine, and it turned out that this was nothing more than a rumor used by the Western media to win attention and deliberately intensify the situation, and now that February 16 has passed, Russia not only has not launched an offensive, but also withdrawn the troops deployed in crimea for exercises to their original positions.
In this crisis, in the face of Russia's "face-riding army", the Western countries led by the United States not only did not provide a little substantial assistance to Ukraine, but also chose to run away at critical moments, such as the Americans have stopped all the work of the US Embassy in Ukraine, and US President Biden also personally appealed that all Americans should leave Ukraine immediately. The Germans did even more, not only refusing to provide weapons aid to Ukraine, but also prohibiting any third country from providing German-made weapons to Ukraine without Germany's permission.
(Russian troops withdrawing from the Kerch Strait Bridge)
However, even at this point, Ukraine is still not dead hearted. According to the latest reports in the British media, ukrainian president Zelenskiy and visiting German new Chancellor Scholz held a closed-door meeting for nearly two hours, and afterwards at a joint press conference, Zelenskiy said that although many reporters and leaders hinted to him that they could not continue to risk talking about joining NATO, he believed that Ukraine should move along the right path and would not give up joining NATO.
(German Chancellor Zollz and Ukrainian President Zelenskiy)
What people did not expect was that the new German chancellor Scholz directly punched in the face, saying that the issue of Ukraine's desire to join any alliance was not on the agenda of the talks, which was to clearly make the poor Ukrainian president die directly. However, it is worth mentioning that although the U.S. population is the most fierce, Germany is the country that provides the most aid to Ukraine every year, with an average of $170 million in new credit to Ukraine a year. But as Europe's only remaining window of communication with Russia, Germany also needs to consider its relationship with Russia, which is the ultimate reason why they insist on carrying forward the Nord Stream II project.
(German Chancellor Scholz)
So will NATO take over Ukraine in today's situation? The answer is clearly no. NATO generally does not accept any member with territorial disputes, let alone Ukraine, which has serious disputes with Russia, the world's top three military powers. Once Ukraine joins NATO, any conflict between Russia and Ukraine will be considered a conflict with NATO under NATO terms, and NATO countries obviously do not want to risk being bulldozed by the torrent of steel.
(Ukrainian tanks are still moving to the front line)
In fact, when Zelenskiy first took office, in order to ease relations with Russia, some positive measures were taken, such as promoting the exchange of prisoners between the two sides, and reaching a new round of the Minsk ceasefire agreement, etc., but later under the strong pressure of western countries, Zelenskiy also had to return to the conservative line, at the cost of More Intense Economic Conditions in Ukraine. And this strong pandering to populism has not bought the Ukrainian president a higher approval rating in the next presidential election. It is almost impossible for him to be re-elected.
(Zelenskiy inspects the front line)
In fact, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has become a typical oligarchy, pro-Russian and pro-Western oligarchs, constantly controlling the political arena for their own interests, and former Ukrainian President Yanukovych, although accused of serious corruption, the pro-Russian Ukrainian president was one of the few periods of better economic development in Ukrainian history. And the Western countries just want to push Ukraine to the front line of resistance against Russia, let this chess piece block bullets and bleed for themselves, but unfortunately Ukraine has been swept away countless times, and so far it has not recognized the facts.