French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that NATO should offer “concrete and tangible security guarantees” to Ukraine as the alliance is debating what to offer Kyiv at a NATO summit that will be held in Vilnius this July.
Macron acknowledged it’s unlikely that Ukraine can obtain full NATO membership, as all 31 members would need to agree, but called for an upgrade to the alliance’s relationship with Kyiv.
“I’m not sure we will have a consensus…for full-fledged membership. Let’s be clear,” Macron said at the GLOBSEC forum in Slovakia, according to Defense One. “I think we have to build something between the security provided to Israel and a full-fledged membership … I think we need to talk concrete and tangible security guarantees.”
Polish President Andrzej Duda recently told The Wall Street Journal that Western leaders are considering an Israel model for Ukraine. That would involve continuing to supply massive amounts of military aid but would not include an Article V-style mutual defense guarantee.
A day earlier at the GLOBSEC conference, a Ukrainian official was calling for NATO to give Kyiv a clear roadmap to membership. Ukraine was promised that it would eventually become a NATO member in 2008 but has never been given a timeline on when that might happen.
The 2008 promise to Ukraine was given despite warnings from the US ambassador to Russia at the time that Ukrainian entry into the alliance was the “brightest of all red lines” for Moscow. Ukrainian neutrality has been a key Russian demand for a settlement, meaning new NATO pledges for Ukraine will likely prolong the war.
Remember, none of these responses are not coincidental or thought out by the likes of him.
Sort of like you.
I’ll acknowledge you when I want a refill on my margarita drink.
Agreed. Macron looked sharp, intelligent, and sophisticated until he spoke. Obama looked the same while he spoke until his platitudes and morally superior lectures were heard ad nauseam. Conclusion: Obama could fool more people and for longer than Macron. But to be fooled by Biden for any length of time, it no longer depends on Biden. It depends on us, the big fools we are. (Sarcasm alert)
There is something pathetic about this carrot that is dangled in front of Zelensky’s nose. How long will it take for him and his keepers with a gun at the back of his head to realize is is not going to happen? As for security guarantees, doesn’t Emmanuel Macron realize it is the Russians who are seeking guarantees?
The only guarantees Putin wants is for NATO to let him expand in any direction he wants.
Yes, Mexico for instance.
wow look at the earth from orbit = Mexico is literally the 2nd largest country on the entire planet. oh shit build a wall!
Yes but, noting the arctic games & the Czech general reported above, it’s clear Russia is going to have to destroy NATO to get any kind of security.
Poor Macron, always wanting to play the good cop role.
It’s easy to look good in comparison with the rest of the leadership of the “West”
English Borish (the BJ) hates that slippery maggot. I feel disgusting to be aligned with that broom-head. I’d like to see Emmanuel’s head on a pike more than most French. Him and that Canadian dictator.
This has the smell of a title being given instead actually providing them with the means to win.
Politicians like to make a big show about this type of stuff (will Ukraine need to change their stationary to show their new title?) instead of actually take actions like sending in troops with all the tanks and planes they won’t provide but Ukraine wants.
I bet the upcoming ceremony announcing Ukraine’s new status as a “super-junior” special partner (or whatever that swell new title will be) will be catered and the entertainment after will feature some geezers strumming old protest songs.
NATO countries are debating what to offer Ukraine at an upcoming summit this July
hey yall bastards, i got something in one of my pockets – could be my left pocket or could be my right pocket – yalls make the choice.
idiots
Acting like Ukraine is in NATO. Sticking nose into business that should not be theirs.
That’s all the NATO pledges are worth. A pile of concrete.