Posted on 07/03/2024 4:13:59 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Ukraine will be told it is currently too corrupt to join Nato, in a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky.
The alliance will request “additional steps” from Kyiv before membership talks progress, a senior official in the US State Department said.
The position will be set out in writing in the Nato communique to be signed at the alliance’s annual summit on July 9.
“... we want to talk about additional steps that need to be taken, particularly in the area of anti-corruption. It is a priority for many of us around the table,” the source added.
Mr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, is pushing for swift Nato membership after the war ends to protect from future invasion. It would compel the US and Europe to come to the defence of Kyiv in the event of any Russian attack.
The Telegraph recently revealed that the US is blocking British and European efforts to put in writing an “irreversible” path towards Nato membership for Ukraine.
Mr Zelensky has sacked military chiefs as part of an effort to curb the problem, especially in the area of defence procurement.
Joe Biden raised “significant corruption” in an interview with Time magazine this year, during which he ruled out supporting the “Nato-isation of Ukraine”.
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If you kicked all the corrupt countries out of NATO ...
What a joke.
But not too corrupt to take all of our billions of dollars Joe wants to shovel to them.
Eisenhower clearly stated that NATO was only for ten years.
“Eisenhower clearly stated that NATO was only for ten years.”
Maybe, but welfare can last forever.
wy69
I have posted this for years- one of just many reasons they have never been admitted to NATO OR the EU. Everyone there knows this- Americans are ignorant.
Irrelevant, since Ukraine can’t join NATO while part of it is occupied, and also because there’s that lease the Yanukovich signed giving Moscow a lease for the naval base on Crimea.
This is just more propaganda.
“...Joe Biden raised “significant corruption” in an interview with Time magazine...”
Get a load of that. Filthy scumbag Puppet Biden lecturing about corruption, as if he himself isn’t one of the most corrupt politicians in the USA. /spit
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Biden has a PHD in corruption, so of course he’ll lecture.
poor zeepers and globohomos
I just think they need more money from us.......
“Ukraine to be told it is too corrupt to join Nato”
FAKE NEWS - If that was true, then they wouldn’t be getting $200B a year from Western countries.
Oh sorry, never mind, I forgot that much of that $200B goes to the Neocons, either directly or indirectly (by the way, what company was Nimrata on the Board of. LOL.).
They have been saying that for years. They are to corrupt.
Pot calling NATO for sure
That what you call liberated, I had questions Mr. “ I am literally outside wildberry” Preston, I have none now
Please find a mirror and repeat your #11 out loud. It’s pure Biden word salad and obviously the product of a very Low IQ.
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