I wonder if anyone at the White House has ever read the NATO Charter. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has proclaimed that Ukraine will be joining NATO. Could Ukraine join NATO tomorrow? No, they can’t because new members cannot be at war at the time of their admission. That means it could be years before they could join. The Biden foreign policy has been leading us towards WWIII for a couple of years, a fight Biden has made sure we can’t win.
Biden has drained our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the bare bones and roadblocks to new drilling has brought us to declining numbers of domestic drilling. He has also depleted our weapons cache, sending most of it to Ukraine. Recruitment is a joke because no one wants to join a woke military that Biden is in charge of. At the 75th Anniversary of NATO Blinken said that Ukraine will be joining NATO. He did not even hint when that will be.
Ukraine Does Not Meet NATO Membership Requirements, Says German Chancellor Scholzhttps://t.co/jksdEWWCfo
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Blinken said:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL…the support for Ukraine, the determination of every country represented here at NATO remains rock solid. We will do everything we can, allies will do everything they can, to ensure Ukraine has what it needs to continue to deal with Russia’s ongoing aggression… Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership, and to create a clear pathway for Ukraine moving forward… we will see very strong support for Ukraine moving forward with its relationship going forwards with NATO.
But we are equally focused as I said on the immediate, and on Ukraine’s needs today, tomorrow, the day after to help it withstand this ongoing aggression from Russia.
This follows several comments by U.S. President Biden and NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg last year that “Allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of NATO”. The truth was more complex than that, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined that in granular detail, saying Ukraine doesn’t meet the criteria to be a member state.
He said in 2023 that: “It is also clear that we then have to discuss which security guarantees can be given in a post-war situation. But we are far from there yet. Now we are concentrating on what is coming up… NATO’s criteria include a whole series of conditions that Ukraine cannot currently meet.
‘NATO Lite’: Finland is Latest Member to Sign 10-Year Defence Deal With Ukrainehttps://t.co/wFQ4qWSBy5
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Nevertheless, it appears work towards inducting Ukraine into NATO as soon as can be arranged continued behind closed doors. Responding to Blinken’s comments today, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba revealed the alliance is working on the next steps towards membership. He thanked Blinken for “strong, encouraging messages” and said in Brussels:
…it is up to allies themselves to decide on the form and the content towards the next step of Ukraine’s membership in NATO. I understand a decision has been taken today to task the military part of the alliance of designing what that next step may be. We will be looking forward to the outcome. Of course we beleive Ukraine deserves to be a member of NATO and that this should happen sooner rather than later.
While Ukraine may be a way off formally joining NATO, individual members are storming ahead with creating ‘NATO-lite’ arrangements with Ukraine, by signing 10-year treaties with Kyiv promising further funding, support, and promising military aid if Russia invades the state again for the duration of the agreement. The eighth such NATO-lite paper was signed just yesterday with Finland, following the United Kingdom in January, then Germany, France, Denmark, Canada, Italy, and the Netherlands.
