Posted on 10/03/2022 4:08:29 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The heads of nine European NATO members on Sunday issued a joint statement backing a path to membership for Ukraine in the U.S.-led security alliance, and calling on all 30 NATO nations to ramp up military aid for Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise move Friday to apply for fast-track NATO membership, in response to Russia’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine.
NATO membership needs approval from all 30 members and Ukraine is unlikely to join anytime soon. Being a country already at war complicates the request.
The nine NATO countries in Central and Eastern Europe fearful that Russia could target them next if it isn’t stopped in Ukraine urged a response to the annexation.
The leaders of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and Slovakia published a statement on their websites Sunday saying: “We support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion, demand (that Russia) immediately withdraw from all the occupied territories and encourage all allies to substantially increase their military aid to Ukraine.”
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FReep is what ever I want it to be bert.
That is why they all want to be in NATO so much. It is because they want US troops to do the heavy lifting and most of the financing and dying if a war breaks out.
Sad part is that many of those NATO members don’t pay their dues. Trump mad a huge issue about that.
But, your usage is wrong and conveys illiteracy
The first thing those nations need to do is form their own military cooperation agreement, outside of NATO.
Good grief man, starting a sentence with 'But' shows enormous illiteracy. Freep is used all across this forum in varying ways. Now, show me the rule book.
Cite a reference please
Oh my ...
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Cite THIS! I'll use the term FReep as I see fit. Guess what. There isn't one blasted thing you can do about it. Anything further you have to post on this matter just goes to the round file so blather on.
“Kissinger: ‘Not wise’ to include Ukraine into NATO”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/10/01/690185/US-Kissinger-NATO-Ukraine-Russia-
https://www.rt.com/news/563858-kissinger-ukraine-nato-russia/
Who cares what Henry Kissenger thinks?
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