But you promised.
Posted on 12/03/2024 3:51:50 AM PST by McGruff
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Tuesday sidestepped questions about Ukraine’s possible membership of the military alliance, saying that the priority now must be to strengthen the country’s hand in any future peace talks with Russia by sending it more weapons.
Rutte’s remarks, ahead of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, came days after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that extending alliance membership to territory now under Kyiv’s control could end “the hot stage" of the almost 3-year war in Ukraine, where Russian forces are pressing deeper into their western neighbor.
“The front is not moving eastwards. It is slowly moving westwards,” Rutte said. “So we have to make sure that Ukraine gets into a position of strength, and then it should be for the Ukrainian government to decide on the next steps, in terms of opening peace talks and how to conduct them.”
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But you promised.
The internal politics in the NATO countries makes it unlikely that Ukraine could be admitted. For one many landlocked countries are still getting their energy from Russia. That’s the political equivalent of handing your testicles to someone who has his own agenda on what you should and shouldn’t be doing. For another reason, there’s centuries of bad feelings among the various ethnic groups over who did what to whom in 1390. From an ocean away America sees, say, Hungary, as one big single color on the map. The Hungarians are 84 percent ethnic Hungarians. The rest are split into several ethnic groups, and each has an opinion on Ukraine. The Hungarian government needs to take their opinions into account...along with where their national testicles are.
Just disband NATO and take the ludicrous idea of NATOized Ukraine off of the table. There is no point wasting trillions just to maintain a stable of Euroweenie globalist bootlicking satellites. Get the U.S. out of NATO and off the European continent. Let the fratricidal European nations do as they please with each other.
I couldn’t care less about Europe
The time for NATO is past. We should pull out.
And if NATO admits Ukraine, we should pull out IMMEDIATELY.
That would be a “Guns Of August” pretext for simply forcing us into open war, and that is not what NATO was designed for in the absence of a communist bloc Cold War threat.
Exactly. See my post above.
Oops. Quite the tar baby now support, is dwindling.
Trump will not allow corrupt YouCrayne to become a member of NATO.
Z-Man can cry all he wants. It won’t help.
NATO should dissolve.
History is an orphan. NATO was formed to protect Europe from the Soviet armies. Ukraine was a Soviet Republic. The USSR fell in 1991. There is no longer a need to defend against something that no longer exists, much less support the very thing you are purportedly defending against.
Maybe General Motors should make large contributions to the buggy whip lobby.
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Kyiv is not in NATO and NATO has no business talking about defending it.
...but it’s the only war they have...
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