Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Antony Blinken: Warring Ukraine Will Join NATO
https://thecongressionalinsider.com/antony-blinken-warring-ukraine-will-join-nato/

Joe Biden’s Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said Thursday in no uncertain terms that war torn Ukraine will become a member of the NATO alliance. This could draw the United States and Europe into direct military conflict with Russia, but that apparently was not a concern.

Blinken’s comments came in Brussels during the organization’s 75th anniversary celebration.

He declared that member states will “build a bridge” for Ukraine to cross into membership. Blinken echoed other alliance leaders when he flatly declared, “Ukraine will become a member of NATO.”



Blinken said “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.”

While asserting that a pathway to membership will be cleared by the alliance, Blinken emphasized military support for Kyiv.

The Secretary of State told the media that “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.”


Not every NATO member is on board with the inevitability of Ukraine ascending into the alliance. In 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz observed that the nation did not meet the criteria for membership.

Scholz noted, “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…NATO’s criteria include a whole series of conditions that Ukraine cannot currently meet.”

That did not deter President Joe Biden and NATO head Jens Stoltenberg from declaring their intentions for Kyiv.

The pair commented last year that “Allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of NATO.” This is an outcome that Russian President Vladimir Putin flatly rejected.

But Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was pleased with Blinken’s pronouncement. “We look forward to the outcome. Of course we believe Ukraine deserves to be a member of NATO and that this should happen sooner rather than later.”

He thanked the U.S. Secretary of State for the “strong, encouraging message.”

A series of 10-year treaties between individual NATO states and Ukraine have already been signed. Finland on Wednesday became the latest to ink such an agreement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7DREY-Li8

This is how that problem was started by Stupid Biden.

I say let's arm Joe and the entire Biden administration with "assault weapons of war" and t***sport them to Ukraine immediately

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Look. I can’t stand Putin, but inviting that corrupt Ukraine into NATO is a provocative move that may start W.W.
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Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

BIRDMAN

This is a bad move

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Sonny Magoo Loc: Where pot pie is boiled in a kettle

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manning5me Loc: Richmond, Va.

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Seems to me that the corruption in the Ukraine needs to be reduced insofar as possible right now. We need access for our observers to be able to identify, detect, and report on the corrupt practices they have good evidence for. This carries forward to the post-war situation if the Ukraine survives (wins?). This access can be a condition of their entry into NATO, and can have a "sunset" clause, say, after five or ten years. There must be other conditions we can establish to minimize corruption while we have the capability to impose conditions on the Ukraine government and society. EU membership is another possible opportunity. Obviously, changing the mindset of a leadership and a society overnight is a dubious proposition, it is an attitude shift the takes at least a generation to shed, if not more. But, somehow, it needs to be done to our satisfaction.

We cannot and must not allow Putin's nuclear threats to deter us from supporting Ukraine, even unto their joining NATO as is their right to apply as a sovereign nation. But, they must qualify properly, and that will take time beyond the end of the war, I believe. Many current NATO members will not v**e for Ukraine's membership without essentially full compliance with the entry requirements, and it only takes one to deny it. To accept them during war is a violation of common sense if nothing else.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

It is really very easy Ukraine and Russia have a ceasefire Russia gives half the land back and Ukraine joins Nato and Russia joins NATO also

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Great idea. If you're on drugs. Like Putin would ever consider joining NATO or NATO would consider Russia. Besides the industrial military complex Eisenhower warned us about would not be making as much money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

it was said in jest knowing that it couldn't happen as NATO Countries aren't suppose to attack each other

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Figured as much. did you listen to Ike? Very eye opening.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Blinken & Biden are crazy. These two stupid morons are begging to start WWIII. Jan 2025 cannot come soon enough.

WEBCO

Why "must" we support the Ukraine? Can't we just apologize for o*******wing their democraticly elected government and starting their destruction?

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