Posted on 07/13/2023 7:05:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he has “no doubt” that Ukraine will join NATO after the war with Russia ends.
Austin’s comments come after a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in which NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that Ukraine’s application to join the alliance will have an easier path with one procedural hurdle being removed from the process. But Stoltenberg also did not lay out a timetable for Ukraine to join, frustrating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Austin told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview on Thursday that Ukraine still needs to take several steps before it can join NATO, including judicial reforms. But he said he is sure Ukraine will join once the war is over.
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Well then Austin, have Zelensky end the war. Zelensky, end the war and make them prove it.
He is just saying that to keep Zelensky a believer so the Ukes can keep sacrificng their people in a war for the West’s Great reset folly.
America and Europe are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian and then to split the Ukraine between Russia and Eastern Europe.
It will end just as Putin wanted it to end all along - with Russia occupying Crimea and all of the Donbas region, and Zelenskyyyy out of power.
I think joining NATO will depend on the government that Russia installs...and comments like Austin’s means that Russia now knows that, regardless of what the West promises, they would be IDIOTS to stop before liberating Kiev.
The war will never be over if Ukraine continues to demand a return to the 1991 borders including the return of Crimea.
Statements like this ensure the war won’t end, at least by diplomacy
Maybe that’s the intention
As if a neutral Ukraine is an existential issue to Joe Sixpack
Just keep poking the bear. I really don’t see the point in it. They really should stop.
I believe NATO is not supposed to take in a new member that has any on-going border dispute. Even if the fighting stops, Ukraine and Russia will disagree about the border. Possibly forever.
Broadcasting intentions like this will get Ukraine turned into an unlivable rump state.
After the war with Russia, Ukraine will be a pile of bricks.
Let’s see.....Russia prevails over Ukraine and “evicts” Zelinskyyy....Then Joe invites the newly conquered state into the U.N......????
Idiots
The West babbles about Ukraine, while being overrun by non whites and drugs.
Squashing any hope the Russians may have about any type of peace deal. What a jerk. "So the killing must continue...."
War Pigs.
This guy isn’t very bright. I wouldn’t take what he says very seriously.
Lloyd Austin is Fat, Stupid and ONLY got to where he is BECAUSE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Stupid Token POS!
...and perverts...
I think it makes sense to bring Ukraine in if they win the war. However, like every thing Biden says, this was a stupid thing to say out loud. Basically, it ensures that Putin will never pull out of Ukraine unless we agree NOT to make Ukraine a member of Nato.
Agreed. Driven by high finance and media.
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