Posted on 04/30/2024 8:30:11 PM PDT by bimboeruption
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that Ukraine will become a member of NATO. This announcement was made during his visit to Kyiv to discuss the ongoing conflict and future support from the alliance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The NATO chief acknowledged delays in support that have had severe repercussions on the battlefield, emphasizing that although Ukraine has been outgunned, it is not too late for them to prevail with increased support on the way.
Stoltenberg revealed that following President Zelenskyy’s appeal at the recent NATO-Ukraine Council meeting, NATO members, including the United States, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, have pledged to intensify their support, with the US providing a new aid package worth over $60 billion, thanks to the Democrats and their comrade Mike Johnson, along with other RINOS.
The two leaders also discussed preparations for the upcoming NATO Summit in July, where plans for a greater NATO role in coordinating security assistance and training for Ukraine will be unveiled.
“I believe we also need a major, multi-year financial commitment to sustain our support. Moscow must understand: they cannot win. And they cannot wait us out,” Stoltenberg added.
Addressing Ukraine’s potential membership, Stoltenberg stated, “Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. Ukraine will become a member of NATO. The work we are undertaking now puts you on an irreversible path towards NATO membership, so that when the time is right, Ukraine can become a NATO member straightaway.” WATCH:
JUST IN: NATO Chief confirms Ukraine will become a member of NATO. pic.twitter.com/ftYOGR7bsn
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) April 30, 2024
While Ukraine’s ultimate NATO membership is seen as “inevitable,” the country currently faces challenges in meeting the full set of NATO membership criteria due to the ongoing conflict with Russia.
However, NATO and its members are actively engaged in discussions and negotiations to address these issues and potentially accelerate Ukraine’s path to membership. At the 2023 Vilnius summit, NATO decided that Ukraine could join the alliance without first completing a Membership Action Plan.
Earlier this month, Elon Musk cautioned that pushing for Ukraine’s NATO membership could lead the world towards a “nuclear apocalypse,” citing the 1983 film ‘The Day After’ as a grim reminder of the potential consequences.
This is literally how the nuclear apocalypse movie startshttps://t.co/g28nCvn3cO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2024
Meanwhile, a Russian Security Council official warned last year that Ukraine’s admission into NATO could inevitably lead to a World War III scenario, echoing President Vladimir Putin’s warning against “nuclear blackmail” from the West.
Just last month, on March 2, 2024, Putin warned the West during his annual “The State of Russia” speech.
Obviously, the Biden regime ignored this warning.
Putin noted that while accusing Russia of plans to attack NATO allies in Europe, Western allies were “selecting targets for striking our territory” and “talking about the possibility of sending a NATO contingent to Ukraine.”
“We remember the fate of those who sent their troop contingents to the territory of our country,” the Russian leader said in an apparent allusion to the failed invasions by Napoleon and Hitler. “Now the consequences for the potential invaders will be far more tragic.”
In a two-hour speech before an audience of lawmakers and top officials, Putin cast Western leaders as reckless and irresponsible and declared that the West should keep in mind that “we also have the weapons that can strike targets on their territory, and what they are now suggesting and scaring the world with, all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the destruction of our civilization.”
... and that’s a bad thing?
That depends on how much it drives up the price of eggs.
Their prayers have been answered.
>>>... and that’s a bad thing?<<<
Not if you’re a stockholder in any of these companies:
https://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/companies.php
Joining NATO requires the unanimous consent of all current NATO countries.
Hungary has shown many times that it will not be a lapdog of the European elite. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Hungary blocked Ukraine’s membership.
Who knows? Maybe that’s what Stoltenberg is counting on. He gets to talk big while knowing that Hungary will keep Ukraine out of NATO.
There is no US-Russia nuclear war forecasted in Scripture.
And the morons who are so “nymphomaniacal/satyric” for WWIII won’t be the ones dying from it.
Eggs? Did someone mention eggs?
Where's marcus?
I don’t know Marcus but I also love eggs. :)
I thought that there was a clause in the NATO charter that you cannot admit a country that is already in an active war for fear of getting the rest of NATO involved? DOH!
“WW3 on the horizon.”
I doubt it. I’m thinking the Europeans see two options:
1) That Russia takes what’s necessary to prevent Neocon terrorism from attacking their people (roughly 50% of what was Ukraine). OR...
2) Russia liberates ALL of Ukraine.
Statements from NATO like this promise basically assure that Option 2 will be the ultimate outcome (particularly since the US is adios after the election, regardless of who wins). And that’s EXACTLY what Europe wants.
The reason that Option 1 is NOT ACCEPTABLE to Europe is that most corrupt country in world, Ukraine, would then fall into Europe’s lap, and be a BASKET CASE for Europe, for decades...so let Russia have it, and if Putin is in a good mood, he might even divvy some of it out to Poland and other aggressor neighbors.
Fine but show me where the first or second world war is in scriptue, or the 100 year war.
LOL Russia lived with Ukraine as independent and intact for 23 years. The Ukraine war is a matter of ego and loot for Putin and his cronies, not a matter of national existence. With no organized political resistance inside Russia, the combination of enough battlefield losses and a golden exit would be sufficient for Putin to agree to a treaty giving most of the territory back. The whole notion that NATO would ever launch Barbarossa II is figment of Russia’s imperial imagination.
The US defends the free world by treaty or not.
NATO encroachment is the dog that won’t hunt.
WWIII? Russia is in Ukraine going on 2 1/2 yrs.
What is he going to takeover next> A few hummus and pita stands.
Yes zeeper
I thought that it was not legal for a country at war to join ?
regardless, I agree it is not going to happen
One wonders . . . if Ukraine develops a Russia friendly government, will it still become a member of NATO?
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