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British PM Rishi Sunak says Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO
CNBC.com ^ | June 1,2023 | Karen Gilchrist

Posted on 06/02/2023 5:06:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Thursday that Ukraine’s “rightful place” is within the NATO military alliance.

Sunak said he agreed with comments made earlier Thursday by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that Ukraine is on the path toward NATO membership.

“I agree with the NATO Secretary-General: Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO,” Sunak told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro.

Britain’s prime minister said that allied nations were sending a “strong signal” to Russian President Vladimir Putin that they would safeguard Ukraine’s security arrangements for the long term.

“We want to make sure that we put in place security arrangements for Ukraine for the long term, so that we send a very strong signal to Vladimir Putin that we’re not going anywhere,” he said.

“We are here to stay and we will continuing backing Ukraine, not just now but for years into the future.”

Sunak was speaking in Moldova, where heads of state from EU and non-EU countries are gathered for the second annual meeting of the European Political Community.

Earlier Thursday, Stoltenberg said “NATO’s door is open for new members” ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in Oslo, Norway.

Stoltenberg said that all members agreed that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance, though he did not give a specific timeline for the enlargement.

“All allies also agree that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance, and all allies agree that it is for the NATO allies and Ukraine to decide when Ukraine becomes a member,” Stoltenberg said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Ukraine; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: europe; karengilchrist; nato; perfidiousalbion; rishisunak; russia; sunak; uk; ukraine
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Getting closer to the inevitable...just a question of timing now!
1 posted on 06/02/2023 5:06:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

So nice of the British to volunteer US taxpayers as the source for funding the defense of another corrupt socialist nation.


2 posted on 06/02/2023 5:09:51 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Timber Rattler

aka “crimping blasting caps with your side teeth”...


3 posted on 06/02/2023 5:10:27 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Timber Rattler

Rishi’s rightfully place in riding an elephant 🐘 somewhere in India.


4 posted on 06/02/2023 5:13:08 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Timber Rattler
British PM Rishi Sunak says Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO


5 posted on 06/02/2023 5:15:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: JonPreston
He's very accomplished:

Sunak attended Stroud School, a preparatory school in Romsey, and later studied at Winchester College as a dayboy, becoming head boy of the college.

6 posted on 06/02/2023 5:16:47 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Timber Rattler

Ah, shut up you dope. Those mealy mouth Brits have big mouths and little action.


7 posted on 06/02/2023 5:20:00 AM PDT by dforest
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It is a rank, naked, arrogant utilization of a mechanism to draw this country by treaty obligation ex post facto.

We should damn well withdraw from NATO if Ukraine is admitted.

We won’t, because the corrupt US administration is financially beholden the the even more corrupt government in Ukraine.

People are just salivating at the concept of extending this war beyond the borders of Ukraine.


8 posted on 06/02/2023 5:21:34 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: JonPreston

Rishi’s right place is being crushed under the forehead of an angry elephant somewhere in India.


9 posted on 06/02/2023 5:23:14 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: JonPreston
So now you're slurring Indians, along with Poles, Italians, and Catholics?

You really are a bigot!

10 posted on 06/02/2023 5:23:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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You really are a bigot!

More Neocon virtue signaling. Have you always been a sissy?

11 posted on 06/02/2023 5:27:05 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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US taxpayers as the source for funding the defense of another corrupt socialist nation.

We're struggling just to fund our corrupt nation as it is.

12 posted on 06/02/2023 5:28:57 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (DeSantis? No thanks. I've already voted for too many Bushes.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Ukraine can have our seat. Let Europe defend itself. for once.


13 posted on 06/02/2023 5:34:56 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: kiryandil

The fees for the Stroud School are very reasonable:

“Upper Prep
Year 6 (Age 10) £6,525 per term
Year 5 (Age 9) £6,525 per term
Lower Prep
Year 4 (Age 8) £6,525 per term
Year 3 (Age 7) £4,980 per term
Pre-Prep
Year 1 – 2 (Age 5 – 6) £4,285 per term
Reception (Age 4) £4,060 per term”

https://stroud.kes.school/30/fees

“The impetus here is on cultivating interpersonal skills, just as much as academic ability.”

https://hants.muddystilettos.co.uk/kids/school-reviews/stroud-school/


14 posted on 06/02/2023 5:35:09 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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I'm amazed at how insignificant little ankle nippers like Timber hold elitist scum like this dayboy up as leadership. I wouldn't let either of them park my car.
15 posted on 06/02/2023 5:36:00 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Timber Rattler

If Nigel Sunak says it, then it’s true.


16 posted on 06/02/2023 5:36:51 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Brian Griffin; kiryandil

Our Betters have been groomed for Leadership from an early age, and now they are ready for leadership, endless war and limitless spending.


17 posted on 06/02/2023 5:39:20 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Timber Rattler

Europe started WW1 and WW2. And, we have spent 75 years worth of American blood and treasure trying to make them play nicely.

I am done. Let Europe figure out their own stuff.


18 posted on 06/02/2023 5:39:57 AM PDT by MMusson
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“British PM Rishi Sunak says Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO”

Hard to see how this ends without full Liberation of Ukraine, considering statements like the above render any promises of future Ukrainian neutrality moot.

At this point it’s tough to see an overall strategy by the Neocons, as there’s a bunch saying that they need to ‘freeze’ the conflict, others hoping to end the war by giving Russia some pieces of Ukraine, with both approaches meant to allow the Neocons to re-arm and to fight China.

But now people like Sunak effectively saying that fighting can only end by Russian tanks taking Kiev (plus the Nazi west of Ukraine, for that matter), or a World War 3 nuclear exchange, should NATO get directly involved.

So it makes me think that the Neocons simply aren’t able to project a coherent strategy, rather they’re consumed with their emotional blood-lust in destroying Russia that stuff to that effect just flows out of their mouths.


19 posted on 06/02/2023 5:41:06 AM PDT by BobL
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To: JonPreston; Brian Griffin
Our Betters have been groomed for Leadership from an early age, and now they are ready for leadership, endless war and limitless spending.

One wonders who Sunak's Geppetto is...

20 posted on 06/02/2023 5:43:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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