Posted on 06/28/2025 8:28:41 AM PDT by bimboeruption
Key Points and Summary - At this week's NATO summit in The Hague, Ukraine was largely sidelined as the alliance focused on internal matters, primarily a new commitment to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP to placate US President Donald Trump.
-While European allies pledged new military aid—including German artillery rockets, Dutch F-16s, and British-funded drones—the final summit declaration omitted previous language about Ukraine's "irreversible path" to membership.
-This shift, combined with a strained and brief meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, leaves Kyiv in a precarious position, increasingly dependent on European support as US commitment appears to wane.
NATO's Hollow Victory: Ukraine Left Exposed as Putin Gains Ground
In a summit that was meant to project strength, NATO may have inadvertently sent the opposite message, at least to Kyiv.
This week’s gathering in The Hague, hailed as a diplomatic success for President Donald Trump, saw the alliance commit to increasing defense spending to 5% of national budgets and reaffirm Article 5’s collective defense clause.
Yet, behind the fanfare, Ukraine was left out in the cold.
Trump Pushes NATO Toward Higher Spending
While Trump claimed victory on NATO finances, he simultaneously stoked fears in Eastern Europe.
His ambiguous comments about NATO’s readiness to respond to hybrid threats have unsettled the Baltic states.
For Ukraine, the snub was even sharper: the final declaration failed to condemn Russia’s full-scale invasion directly, and President Volodymyr Zelensky was given little more than a symbolic nod.
After over three years of attritional war, Ukraine’s position is increasingly precarious. Russian forces are making incremental gains around Pokrovsk, and the Ukrainian military faces mounting internal strain.
Combat injuries have sidelined many of Ukraine’s seasoned fighters, and Zelensky has been forced to expand conscription to younger age groups, including those aged 18–24.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
They were an “associate” member...At least they think they are.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled NATO Has Abandoned Ukraine to Russia, verum ago wrote: NATO Has Abandoned Ukraine to Russia
How is it abandonment if it was never part of NATO in the first place?NATO has been using Ukraine as its proxy to fight Russia. NATO is losing and is abadoning its proxy.
Hang on, Ukraine, the UK’s upping its defense spending in 2035!
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Eastern Ukraine voted to become part of Russia 20 years ago.
John “Fuller Brush” Bolton and other warhawks are election deniers.
NATO is wise to cut and run.
Apparently the NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organization is really the Any Country Bordering a Country That Touches the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
EU needs to be responsible for EU.
US treaties should be mutual support with individual countries that are our friends and have common interests.
For decades we have been suckered into protecting socialist countries that depend on OUR might to protect them while they spend the aid money from us to fund their social programs while they put LITTLE TO NOTHING into their own defense.
PAYING someone to be friendly with you does not make them your friend.
If Ukraine has failed to submit a reasonable peace proposal to Russia, the conflict should go forward at Ukraine’s full risk.
grifters.
they want our boots, bombs and blood spent first.
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Correct!
Mark
no NATo for ukes
no more US dollars.
let euros deal with it
I guess pledging € 35 billion from Europe and Canada this year counts as abandoning Ukraine.
Which means they’ll still be upping it to get to 5% in 2035. (If you believe it, that is.)
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