Chris

‘Demanded’ is a journalist’s interpretation of how it went down, but probably not far from the truth. Ukraine’s argument is that it is fighting Russia now so that Nato doesn’t have to later - if Putin gets out of this feeling he has got one over the Wicked West, within 10 years or so he is likely to try the ‘defending the Russian minority’ schtick he’s used in Georgia and southeastern Ukraine already, in places we already are obliged to defend, i.e. the Baltics. So if Zelensky is making demands, they’re not entirely unreasonable.