Posted on 03/08/2025 5:54:11 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has suggested that NATO’s Article 5 collective security protections be extended to Ukraine, without offering it full membership in the Alliance. She made this statement while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the EU leaders' meeting in Brussels. "Clearly, the main issue is peace in Ukraine, and I believe we must all do everything we can to support the peace process, welcoming the U.S. initiative and those working towards peace. However, a just peace requires clear security guarantees," Meloni stated.
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The one thing that Putin has requested to not do, to avoid war, and they want to do it.
European leaders are just insane.
Total insanity.
If NATO does that in the morning, the USA resigns from NATO in the afternoon.
Why wait?
This was one of the most stupid ideas yet and it is certainly a big no for the US.
We have done enough free stuff for Ukraine.
The need for NATO ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It should have been dissolved then, but bureaucracies never die, they just mutate and metastasize.
I think I read, she back tracked on that statement and said she wished she had backed Trump from the beginning.
She’s proposing everybody else in Europe goes to war.
Does Italy even have a military?
That’s one way to guarantee we get out of that insane quagmire of Ukraine and NATO. Brilliant and genius is right. Never again do we have to be the one who pays for someone else’s security and get insults and arrogance in return. We’re better off finding a way to live with Russia and China in suspicious and watchful peace. Out of Ukraine NOW! Not a penny more for corrupt dictators!
Sounds like RAT mentality. Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result the next time. Holding the NATO membership carrot under the nose of Ukraine was part of what started all this crap.
Gee I can’t imagine why anyone would want withdraw from NATO. /s
Look Frenchie, President Trump said we’re not getting in that war and we’re not getting in that war. If the 31 dwarfs of NATO wanna take on Russia, they won’t have America backing them and if it gets out of hand, they just might find American bombs hitting European targets.
Italy is one of the countries WELL BELOW their 2% NATO commitment and now Meloni proposes this ?
This demented bitch is writing cheques her ass can’t afford to have cashed.
Canada out of NATO now !
(Anschluss now!)
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pdf/240617-def-exp-2024-en.pdf
et to Georgia?
I believe it is traditional for the Europeans to run their world wars for at least 2 years of slaughter before dragging us into the conflict. Since World War 3 is sure to go nuclear, trying to get us to go first is just rude.
C.W.
“We’re better off finding a way to live with Russia and China in suspicious and watchful peace.”
I agree. I actually believe Xi is a larger threat than Putin.
Since Article 5 is at the CORE ESSENCE OF NATO MEMBERSHIP, I’m not sure I understand the distinction between this and :full NATO membership.
Just no froggy.
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