Posted on 07/11/2023 5:35:22 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Russia is taking 'appropriate' measures in response to the possible accession of Sweden and Ukraine to NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today.
Lavrov said Russia would protect its own 'legitimate security interests' as world leaders met in Vilnius, Lithuania for the first day of a NATO summit.
The summit is expected to send a 'positive' message about Ukraine's hopes of one day joining the alliance, as Sweden makes progress after months of deliberation.
However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for immediate action, saying it was 'unprecedented and absurd' not to have a timetable in place.
NATO membership can take decades to achieve, and onlookers have stressed the difficulty Ukraine would have in joining the bloc while a war rages on....
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Ukraine....never!
You can’t join when you are at war......Period...
“Putinyeros, have fun.”
I guess you child molesters and democrat money launderers love it when the US violates the Baker agreement.
The Israeli Jew has faith in the Turkish Muslim?…
If Russia can remove child porn from NATO country’s computers, Sweden will straighten up quickly.
Strong letters to follow. Of this I am "positive."
Where are the new Monty Pythons and Beyond the Fringes and George Carlins? Each of these would have been a "Daily Male." Laughter is the best medicine.
In matters of life and death, "have fun" is such a happy face.
Besides, 'twas said -- "I’m not in the least clown-a-phobic."
After Ukraine joins NATO, tee up liberated Koenigsberg, Belarus and Tatarstan.
Putin is the star NATO recruiter of the 21st century.
How long had Sweden been neutral, before Putin?
Zelensky demands what Nato is to do. ...lik he’s the boss of Nato.
Looks like Zelensky will never be voted out of office.
I honestly don’t GAGS. After Putin wipes his a@@ on the Budapest Memo for the past nine years, you expect NATO to live up to Baker. If Putin wants to make vague threats in reaction to Sweden’s application, that’s his problem.
Excuse me, there are some children tied up in my basement, and I keep forgetting that I don’t have a basement, so the poor dears must be frightened. Money doesn’t launder itself. ‘bye, Putinyeros.
Honest question, do you think things aligning in binary fashion bodes well for humanity?
NATO v BRICS +13
It seems, to me, like lines are being drawn for a future and terrible war.
Not my circus. Not my monkeys. Israel will never be allowed to join NATO, and I’m relieved.
Sweden was a German ally in all but name in WW2. Most of the iron and tungsten used in the German military came from Sweden.
Your violating the Baker agreement then complaining Russia responds accordingly is like the liberals making their policies then complaining about MAGA.
Childish expectations.
Feel free to post the "Baker agreement" that the US signed. It doesn't exit.
Just enjoy baiting goys?
I was not a signatory to Baker, or Budapest. But it appears to me that Russia’s Little Green Men in Crimea, and annexation of the same, as well as a similar “movement” in Donbas, and invasion of Ukraine, pre-date Sweden’s application to join NATO. Time lines matter.
Putin's invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory has made russia a rogue regime that violates its signed international border treaties, forcing Finland and Sweden to join NATO as its only means of protection against a future russian invasion.
Trying to get FReepers banned? Nice
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