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Ukraine is on an ‘irreversible’ path to NATO. But only after war with Russia ends
AP ^ | July 10, 2024 | ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LORNE COOK

Posted on 07/10/2024 5:59:34 PM PDT by McGruff

The 32-members of NATO on Wednesday formally declared Ukraine on an “irreversible” path to membership in the Western military alliance, offering a bare but more binding assurance of protection once its war with Russia ends.

NATO member countries individually and in Wednesday’s joint statement from their summit in Washington announced a series of steps aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defenses. That includes the U.S., the Netherlands and Denmark announcing that the first NATO-provided F-16s would be in the hands of Ukrainian military pilots by this summer.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted his appreciation of the effort to strengthen his air force, coming soon after Ukraine saw one of the deadliest strikes of the war.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
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1 posted on 07/10/2024 5:59:34 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

The only way Ukraine joins NATO, and this has been made crystal clear by word and action by Putin, is after NATO “wins” a nuclear WWIII with Russia.


2 posted on 07/10/2024 6:02:33 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: McGruff

3 posted on 07/10/2024 6:02:51 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: hardspunned

“The only way Ukraine joins NATO, and this has been made crystal clear by word and action by Putin, is after NATO “wins” a nuclear WWIII with Russia.”

Yep, and sadly it seems the Neocons will have to learn the above, the hard way.


4 posted on 07/10/2024 6:05:09 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

The war started because we wanted Ukraine in NATO….


5 posted on 07/10/2024 6:17:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: McGruff

Permawar


6 posted on 07/10/2024 6:20:06 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: McGruff

War creates $


7 posted on 07/10/2024 6:25:12 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: McGruff
What a goat rope

The Ukrainians will be getting their F 16s just about the time they lose the war

The F16s are pretty much worn out and at the end of their life so the primary feature of these planes was that they were pretty much expendable assets in the war.

The countries that contributed them got the deal of the century - they give their soon to be cut up and scrapped F16s to the Ukraine and the Biden Administration subsidizes their purchase of replacement Lockheed F -35s with American taxpayer funds.

These planes have no future beyond being a pretext for the Biden Administration to loot and deplete our stockpiles aircraft weaponry the same way they have looted our anti tank Javelins and TOWs, our Stinger MANPADs anti aircraft missiles, our Patriot missile batteries , our M1 tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles and ammo, our howitzer tubes and shells, our ATACMS and god knows what else we sending .

8 posted on 07/10/2024 6:28:21 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: McGruff

#1 Ukrainian song for 2025

We’re back in the USSR.

Two Ukrainian girls for every Ukrainian guy.

And they’re not shy.

The Russian missiles knocked everything out.

Look at the neo-cons pout.


9 posted on 07/10/2024 6:29:08 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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10 posted on 07/10/2024 6:36:08 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: hardspunned

How come Pooty didn’t launch nukes when Finland joined NATO?

(No, it’s not just the geography.)


11 posted on 07/10/2024 6:37:33 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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How come Pooty didn’t launch nukes when Finland joined NATO?

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Maybe because Finland broke from Russia in 1917. And had no significant ties to Russia. Unlike Ukraine which broke away in 1991.

Google tells us this......Russia has deep cultural, economic, and political bonds with Ukraine, and in many ways Ukraine is central to Russia’s identity and vision for itself in the world. Family ties. Russia and Ukraine have strong familial bonds that go back centuries.


12 posted on 07/10/2024 6:45:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Hojczyk

Russia invaded Ukraine because Russia wanted Ukraine.


13 posted on 07/10/2024 6:51:40 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Paul R.

The other times NATO countries and alliances of NATO countries attacked Russia they attacked the same way they are attacking Russia today, through Ukraine. You might want to actually think about the totally different threats posed by the greatest offensive military behemoth in history sitting on Russia’s border with Ukraine, a days tank ride from Moscow and the same force sitting on the Russo/ Finnish border. If you could look at this war and why it started more strategically rather than emotionally you’d be better prepared to understand what’s going on.


14 posted on 07/10/2024 6:54:58 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: BobL

NATO won’t win a nuclear war; cockroaches, rats and mice will inherit the earth and nibble on carcasses of extinct humans.


15 posted on 07/10/2024 7:03:52 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ansel12

lie


16 posted on 07/10/2024 7:09:33 PM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: Hojczyk

“WE”. Who is we?


17 posted on 07/10/2024 7:22:52 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: rdcbn1

The F-16’s give the Ukies access to a HUGE inventory of US air launched standoff weapons. We scrap more in a year than the Ukies could use in 3 or 4 years - unless of course the Ukies get vastly greater numbers of F-16’s. However, it would likely make more sense for the next step to be a couple squadrons of Gripens. THAT would give Pooty a real headache.

In any event, Russia isn’t going to win IF Ukraine gets even 1/2 of the projected drone deliveries.


18 posted on 07/10/2024 7:34:42 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: McGruff

Such hubris.

Ukraine will NEVER, EVER GET UNANIMOUS CONSENT.

They won’t even get 2/3 of the US Senate.

And everyone knows it, including Russia.


19 posted on 07/10/2024 7:38:27 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Hojczyk
"The war started because we wanted Ukraine in NATO…"

No, it started because entitled, globalist neocons thought their destiny was to get rid of Russia as easily as they did the Soviet Union, "because they could," (meaning, they'd gamed it all out and believed they could suck the resources out of the NATO militaries and citizenry, and were willing to sacrifice 7Billion+ lives while they would take cover in their 5-star, underground bunkers.

At worst it would mean they would have to share the world--for a time--with the CCP.

20 posted on 07/10/2024 7:53:15 PM PDT by rx
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