“Ukraine is working toward getting a formal invitation to join (NATO) at the upcoming conference in July 2024 (a significant, but not final step). They are also on a fast track to join the EU.”
“You’re joking, right?”
“It’s not going to happen, and for very good reasons.
Former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has slammed the possibility of Ukraine joining the EU”
Two weeks after you wrote that, the current European Commission voted to advance Ukraine’s application to the EU, to initiate formal negotiations. Kyiv opened an office in Brussels for integration into the bloc, and the EU announced that they will open a permanent office in Kyiv.
Since the Summer, Ukraine has passed a host of new laws, and instituted many reforms, recommended by the EU to qualify - the whole list that was provided.
In Youcrayne, as in Russia, (and for that matter most ex-Soviet satellite countries), corruption is endemic, entrenched and a big part of the culture. The "con," the "reach-around" is acceptable, if not praiseworthy, in these cultures. I've worked with many Eastern Europeans. Corrupt, scheming and devious to the core. In comparison, the Arabs I worked with for years were trustworty. That says a lot.
This EU/media "membership" kabuki is just a bit of window dressing, shot through with globalist desperation, to soften the blow when the West is soon forced to pull the plug on the disaster it helped create.
Turkey's been on a path to EU membership since 1987. That's 36 years. . . Youcrayne's just as corrupt as Turkey is so my guess is though Youcrayne might be "put on a path" to EU membership it might actually become an EU member sometime in the year 2376, if ever. And let's face it, there's a serious possibility that there won't be an EU to join within a decade, or less. Then, of course, there might not be a Youcrayne in six months the way the war's going.