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To: ought-six

>>>Ref your “Ukraine is not going to become a NATO member. Even Zelensky admitted that to Russia.”<<<

Somebody forgot to tell Biden:

Date: December 9, 2021 10:19 PM EST

Headline: Biden assures Zelenskiy that NATO membership in Ukraine’s hands, Kyiv says

Link:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/

We were already treating Ukraine like a de facto junior member of NATO anyway, arming, equipping and training their military.

Back in 2014 around putsch time, there was loose talk from American lips about turning Sebastopol (then leased to Russia under agreement made at independence) into a NATO port. Oops! Putin grabbed it. So we built a naval base for NATO not far away (but not as cool as having Sevastopol would have been):

https://web.archive.org/web/20171018214324/https://strategic-culture.org/news/2017/08/14/ukraine-hosts-us-military-permanently-stationed-on-its-soil.html


30 posted on 03/01/2023 7:45:31 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: CatHerd

“Somebody forgot to tell Biden:”

Nice try. The link you included is from 2021; Zelensky made his comment in 2022.

And, you are WAY off on your claim that the US was planning
to make Sevastopol a NATO base, and that’s why Russia grabbed it. Your problem — one among many — is that Russia invaded Crimea in February, 2014 and annexed Crimea a few weeks later in March, 2014. The report you cited is from July, 2017 and addresses the plan to update port facilities near ODESSA. That was more than THREE YEARS after Russia had invaded Ukraine and illegally annexed Crimea.

You are so desperate to prove your pro-Kremlin bona fides that you have resorted to distortion and outright lies.

Give it up.


36 posted on 03/02/2023 10:01:57 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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