Loading ...NATO has absolutely zero interest in admitting Ukraine. NATO Wants to Show Support for Ukraine, but Only So Much
Admitting Kyiv is a nonstarter as long as the war with Russia is raging. That has sent NATO searching for some middle ground, something short of membership but meaty enough to show that it is backing Ukraine “for the long haul,”
What Ukraine wants, ultimately, is a formal invitation to join NATO. But alliance officials agree that is not going to happen at the festivities planned for Washington in July. NATO has no appetite for taking on a new member that, because of the alliance’s covenant of collective security, would draw it into the biggest land war in Europe since 1945.
An undercurrent to the urgency is NATO’s desire to “Trump-proof” — as it has been called in recent months — Western support for Ukraine should former President Donald J. Trump be re-elected in November. Mr. Trump has long disdained NATO, deriding its members for not paying a “fair share” of security costs and, in February, suggesting that if a European member of the alliance were attacked by Russia, he would not help defend it if it had not been paying its share.
I tried to read this , K2, but I just couldn’t. If NATO thought they could defeat Russia, NATO would already have Ukraine as a member. They can’t, so they won’t. Russia put an end to their dreams. For thirty five years Russia drew that red line. For thirty five years NATO has schemed to abridge that red line. NATO has destroyed itself in their delusions. NATO is finished, Europe will suffer for decades. Russia won! Admit it and move on.