NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Biden in Washington on Tuesday and said Russia must lose in Ukraine to send a message to China as the Western alliance increasingly has its eyes on the Asia Pacific.
“President Putin must not win this war, because that will not only be a tragedy for Ukrainians, but also make the world more dangerous,” Stoltenberg said at the White House before a meeting with Biden.
“It will send a message to authoritarian leaders all over the world, also in China, that when they use military force, they get what they want, and we will then become more vulnerable. So it’s our security interest to support Ukraine,” he added.
Stoltenberg’s comments come as NATO is planning to boost ties with countries in the Asia Pacific. According to a report from Nikkei Asia, the alliance is preparing documents to increase relations with its four main partners in the region, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.
NATO will form what is known as an Individually Tailored Partnership Program (ITPP) for each nation, which outlines a road map for collaboration. The Nikkei report said possible areas of cooperation include cybersecurity, space, and fighting so-called disinformation.
NATO also wants to open a liaison office in Japan, but the idea is facing resistance from France. French President Emmanuel Macron believes the alliance should stay in the North Atlantic and has warned against expanding into Asia.
If I was China, the message I would get if Russia loses would be to arm myself to the teeth an spend far more in military spending to arms race NATO and the US….which would benefit absolutely no one on this planet other than those looking forward to the post nuclear wasteland.
The answer to Peace is well… peace, and war is the opposite of peace. Only a deranged organization like NATO and the US defense industry think that it must “win” and that war is peace.
NATO Chief Says NATO Must Lose in Ukraine to Send Message to China
You know this guy is spending too much time in his Ivey tower instead of smelling the manure in the garden below to make such a imbecilic statement.
Indeed, authoritarian leaders like Biden do think they can get what they want through military force and that does make us all a lot less safe. That’s why we should start supporting democracy and diplomacy instead of constantly sending more weapons and cash to the regime in Ukraine.
Replace the failed US with a new government required to balance the budget.
US military borrow money to terrorize and kill innocent families. The US train normal citizens to be terrorists who live without honor.
Go China! Turn up the heat another notch. Utter US defeat appears to be the only route to fair taxes, real elections, and a balanced budget.
Medicare for all and a living wage will not happen until the undemocratic US government is replaced with a modern real democracy.
I agree … back to the old republic.
The Articles of Confederation were a constitution. What the US has now is a commercial document that looks like a constitution,
NATO is the problem not the solution the world has never been more dangerous because of it .
NATO is the solution in search of a problem.
People claimed NATO is some peaceful alliance. Yet the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is fighting a war to send a message not in the North Atlantic.
NATO—North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.
“Russia Must lose because of China”?????? More like “Russia will Win Because it is the biggest and best armed State on the Planet! Ukraine has a fourth rate military with no Air Force or navy and has no money. You don’t need a degree in military effectiveness to see it is a dog that will not hunt!!!!!!! Russia and China together is the inevitable result of ALL this crazy talk by these feckless NATO non nuclear nobodies!!!!!!!
Stoltenberg Comment Translator: If we can’t take down Russia, we’ll have more trouble taking down China.
He may be convincing to those who already want to hear that NATO is defending Ukraine. But most of the world leaders understand the real agenda here, and several of them will be joining BRICS in August.
NATO should lose in Ukraine to send a message to itself. NATO has been causing non-stop wars since its inception. NATO & Biden caused the war to occur by expanding closer & closer to Russia’s borders. Ukraine persecutes the Russian speakers.
Jens Stoltenberg says Russia is authoritarian but won’t say the same thing about Ukraine. NATO says it promotes democracy & democracies are peace loving non interventionist nations & authoritarian governments start unprovoked wars which is a myth we are taught in schools.
The US has a long history of starting unprovoked wars & antiwar protesters should organize & make their voices loud & clear.
Well said PP500!
“President Putin must not win this war”
Putin MUST not win this war. But he WILL win
Well, he’ll probably find a way to declare “victory” and GTFO at some point.
But he’s vanishingly unlikely to accomplish his original announced goal of regime change (“de-Nazification and de-militarization”).
He will if he damn well pleases.
Stoltenberg is just interpreting his last night dream…!
“It will send a message to authoritarian leaders all over the world, also in China, that when they use military force, they get what they want, and we will then become more vulnerable. So it’s our security interest to support Ukraine,” he added.
Yes. Ask Iraq. They know all about authoritarian leaders using military force to get what they want. And I’m not talking about their pipsqueak of an authoritarian.
Jens is increasingly unhinged these days. He knows that NATO is screwed – and that he is likely facing international law criminal proceedings for his disgraceful actions as NATO Secretary General, along with many others.
He’s a short-timer and wants to go out with a “bang” as they say … hopefully, not a Big Bang …
It’s too late, Stoltenberg. As head of NATO you were compicit in provoking the bear and now the bear has lashed out. You should not have provoked the bear.
Even little ‘ol me sees the complete stupidity of that declaration.
What is the message if Ukraine is unsuccessful?
This war is being run by the senile and the clueless.
Aaaaaand… ZaSu….I’m not aware that China has threatened ANYone with war…🤔
hilarious.
Is he a six year old? Sounds like it to me. What’s next, Is he going to lay on the ground and kick his feet and cry until Russia loses? Will that make it better for Ukraine’s people who are dying, while he throws a tantrum?
Russia must not win, oh my oh dear, well Ok, what’s that even mean?
Russia didn’t win, they lost the day the war started, just like in every war. The only way to win one is to avoid it altogether. So, why not just declare that Russia has already paid so high a price that surely they will learn a lesson and be a lesson to China?
Clearly it didn’t go to plan, Russia hoped to bluff their way into a short war, it didn’t work and now Russia has paid a price and so has Ukraine. At what point is the cost in blood high enough to make these bloodthirsty world leaders happy?
With each day that passes and with each Ukrainian killed they are also teaching the people of Taiwan a lesson, are they not? Never get caught in the middle of a proxy war? Would that be the lesson you would be learning right now if you were living in Taiwan and watching the war in Ukraine unfold?
Don’t trust the West they will lead you into a mess?
I’m sure the leaders in Taiwan are corrupt enough to go along with just about anything, if there is enough money in it, but what about the people of Taiwan, are they down with dying for the cause of weakening China? No, they aren’t, not from anything I’ve read. I don’t see anything that leads me to believe they are interested in bleeding for Washington. They want a more hands off approach and some guarantees, but ultimately they still see themselves as part of Chinese history and of the Chinese culture. It’s simply not the same as what Ukraine has become and they know well enough that the Chinese economy has the ability to make or break them, any war would be a disaster no matter how well it went for them.
No Russia does win if they get to control the Donbas energy resources and if they are seen to be able to permanently annex territory – remember that there are plenty of prior examples of national leaders paying scant attention to their nations loss of soldiers in the fight to acquire new territory.
Moreover given what the Russians are proposing/debating doing to the Ukrainians they control the optics of not keeping the harshest sanctions on them should they win territory in Ukraine is just awful.
Finally not keeping on the pressure on the Russians could/would be seen as giving in to nuclear blackmail and thus cause nuclear proliferation and likely set of a huge up-tic in near global defense spending.
As for the Taiwanese the only way they get to die is if China attacks Taiwan, and then they maybe willing to fight and die, otherwise they have the Afghan option available, though I suspect that the US will sabotage the Taiwanese chip production before the Chinese concur it.
So although you may be right that they see themselves as Chinese (I do not know about this) and do not want to fight a Chinese invasion.
I’m not sure that they have the option of continue to exist under Chinese governance like some large Hongkong special economic district.
NATO members can’t read, can’t write, can’t punctuate, nor can they think for themselves.
If the Rothschilds did not want wars, there would be NONE, therefore, who is pulling whose strings???