Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday vowed that Ukraine will eventually join NATO, repeating a provocative promise that the alliance first made at a summit in Bucharest in 2008.
“Ukraine will become a member of NATO,” Blinken said in Brussels alongside Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. NATO foreign ministers met in the Belgium capital to prepare for a NATO summit that will be held in Washington this July.
“Our purpose of the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership and to create a clear pathway for Ukraine moving forward. We’ve done a lot of work on that over the last couple of days here in Brussels, a lot more work to be done between now and the summit, but we will see, I think, at the summit very strong support for Ukraine going forward and its relationship with NATO,” Blinken said.
Leading up to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia was seeking a guarantee from the US that Ukraine wouldn’t ever join the alliance, but the Biden administration refused and never seriously engaged on the issue. Since the invasion was launched, NATO has doubled down on its promise to admit Ukraine eventually, but no clear timeline or assurances have been given since bringing Kyiv in now would put the alliance in a direct war with Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was fuming last year after not receiving any sort of timeline on memberships at the NATO summit in Vilnius. NATO released a vague statement at the summit that it would only be in a “position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance when allies agree and conditions are met.”
While not giving Ukraine a clear path, the US and NATO are still dangling the potential membership over Russia’s head, likely as a way to ensure the proxy war continues.
Back in 2008, then-US Ambassador to Russia William Burns, the current CIA director, wrote a cable warning against promising NATO membership to Ukraine and Georgia. He said the vow touches a “raw nerve” in Russia and raises serious security concerns for Moscow.
Burns wrote: “Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests.”
Burns said in the cable, which was released by WikiLeaks, that Russia was particularly concerned about Ukraine. “Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face,” he wrote.
The US treated Germany, an ally, like any enemy, destroying her economy and with it the EU economy and NATO. Actually a declaration of war against a NATO member by the NATO Norway, a NATO member took part in the sabotage of the pipeline and was rewarded with a pipeline from Norway to Poland.
Those politicians who are trying to make their countries strong and independent, they all are the enemies of US. Those who are ready to sacrifice the prosperity of their people for the benefit of American oligarchy, they are friends of US.
As this short video notes, there is no way all 32 NATO members will agree to add Ukraine as it fights with Russia. The danger is that senile Biden may be told he can simply declare that Ukraine is a member.
Is anyone paying attention to anything coming out of Blinken’s mouth? I can’t even stand to listen to this clown. Every other word is “uh”. He stammers like he has a condition. How can you be a “diplomat” if you can’t even speak coherently?
In the Biden administration he is normal, as expected.
Perhaps Beta Boy Blinker should just go to Israel to live and leave America to Americans.
He wants to pressure Russia into taking more territory and prolonging the war. So, more dead Russians, Ukrainians, and assorted foreign fighters.
Russia will never allow Ukraine to become a NATO member in its current form. So, Russia takes Odessa and maybe other oblasts. It can’t take everything without expelling the Ukrainians or importing foreign colonists.
Their miscalculation is that this war instead of making the population of Russia smaller, makes it greater. Russia pays approximately one life of Russian soldier for getting a hundred of new Russian citizens which before the war were Ukrainian citizens, only counting those who are incorporated into Russia together with their land. There are also a lot of Ukrainian refugees to Russia who are coming to Russia from Ukrainian territory which hardly ever would be a part of Russian Federation. Most of those refugees will remain in Russia permanently. That’s what does concern the demographics.
Russian army and Russian industry also profited a lot from this conflict. In those last two years Russia, as a country, became much stronger.
Ukrainian nationalism will be a problem though. But there are ways to deal with that. It’s sad to see.
I rather liked the idea of a neutral nation state in Ukraine.
When the level of corruption is that high, the neutrality is unrealistic. Particular in countries located between NATO and Russia. Belorussians are lucky with their leader, though he is authoritarian but definitely he is not for sell.
You just need a closed society that can resist external influence. But that wasn’t achieved.
They had the chance to be neutral and prosper like Austria.
I see a partitioned Ukraine in the future…
at best.
NATO is not doing well, it is nearing the end, Biden and the smart neocons make sure of that.
The dying elite need their one last hurrah because this time it will be different.
Ukraine could eventually become a member of NATO but the territory of Ukraine would be much smaller than what it was at the time when they decided to make Ukraine a member of NATO.
Yea, and Blinken knows that. Russia will have to send in migrants or expel the Ukrainians in the new territory, to hold it.
So, Ukrainians lose their nation state. It had the potential to be a great power, and now it won’t even be a nation state. It’ll be colonized in each part of the new Ukraines.
It is difficult to govern a country for the benefit of the citizens. Much easier is to to take money from a foreign sponsor and follow his instructions. European politicians, not just only Ukrainian ones, prefer to take an easier way and the consequences are disastrous.
Most likely there will be no NATO left, the neocons are nuts. They think they can go to war against Russia, China, and Iran all at once. Common sense would tell them they are crazy, but they are crazy and have no common sense at all. Biden and his administration is a big fat failure.
Unfortunately common sense can neither prevail nor be applied with idiots like this at the helm. Collectively, they are in a deep hole, but too inept too realize they have to stop digging at some point.
Two quotes come to mind:
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” – Lord Acton
“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – A. Rand
Whats left of Ukraine will be too small to join Nato.
He meant to say the remaining of Ukraine will become part of Russia before becoming a member of NATO…!
Seriously? Are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians dying for Zelensky or Blinken? …What’s that? They’re dying for NATO? …Okay, then. Carry on.
Remember, the Empire has told Zelensky only to report 31,000 Ukrainian KIA’s. They’re doing great out there boys.
Yeah, real great.
Lol.
That was so shameless, but was not unexpected from a comedian who became famous for acting like…
Sorry, we’ll try to get a former KGB guy for President of Ukraine next time.
Putin lover. You guys suck.
No no, that’s wrong. According to the Kremlin, Russia has killed 1.5 million Ukrainians soldiers and about 100,000 NATO soldiers.
Ukraine has lost more soldiers than it ever had.
What’s embarrassing is that Russia is now fighting 300 spartans and cannot even take one significant size village
What a fcking inept and incompetent army Putin has created.
What a joke.
Question, What did the 200,000 Russians die for? Putin?
I thought it was half a million dead Russians to Ukraine’s thirty one thousand.
It’ll be half a million by end of year thanks to peaceful Putin.
Blinken’s was raised by his stepfather, who was a proud Pimp, Blackmarketeer, and tax cheat. The Apple does not fall far from the tree.
Blinken was educated in the best schools and learned nothing.
For some reason I don’t think Russia really gives a shit what Blinken says.
Has there been a less consequential SoS than Blinky in modern times? The actual people who matter seem to be the Obama Nat Sec leftovers and the “underlings” like Nuland (failed so bad she had to leave) and Gates.
Remember, the Cookie Monster “resigned”. So the story goes.
Maybe the monster was kindly asked to resign, or maybe the rat left the sinking ship?
Clinton, Pompeo.. Blinken. Is rancid hypocrisy and offensiveness a prerequisite for the job or do they get training?
The genocide Biden administration is really sick, a bunch of idiots. They must know NATO is about to croak, what NATO does the nut-job Blinken have in mind Ukraine will join when?
You are really the sick one here.
Genocide Putin got you blind.
„NATO first promised Ukraine would join the alliance back in 2008 despite warnings that the vow could provoke a war„
Promised? 😳
How how Blinkie thinks he gets to decide, not Ukrainians. Would they prefer a siminished rump state, or no state at all? Somehow I doubt they’ll let Blinkie keep deciding for them to the bitter end.
It may turn out so but the Ukraine that joins NATO will be a tiny corner of what it is now.
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Good one from Blinken! I wonder what other pearls will be offered in the perpetually morphing narrative? Absolute bull$hit!
More importantly, I’d like to know what peace initiatives are being considered keeping in mind that they collectively had a chance, but really, really, f*cking blew it. Thanks Boris!
I guess that’s what the Empire’s think tanks planned all along?
1) We cripple Russia with sanctions. Let’s blow up Nordstream just to make sure. Seems to be working well; I guess it’s a 1000 yr. plan, right?
2) Let’s dump a $hitload of aid into Europe’s most corrupt country. A country previously not on EU’s membership radar. Now, embroiled in a war that has multiplied corruption at every possible level. Great business model!
3) We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes
4) Ooops! We will support Ukraine for as long as we can
5) Isn’t Ukraine is a defacto member of NATO right now? Please take note that it’s shrinking daily as the front moves west. The “counteroffensive” is going according to plan.
6) Let’s market the soon to be rump state of Ukraine with a new name so it can be better prepared for EU accession. How about we call it “Eastern Poland”. Seems fitting doesn’t it? Need to change the slogan to “Chwała Polsce”
Great job! If I were Ukrainian, I would start realizing that carrot is not meant for me to eat, while alive. It’s a metaphor for the apple in the dead pig’s mouth.
More like the wooden spit stuck up the pig’s a$$ and exiting the mouth.
Slowly roasting over a hot bed of coals.
You actually read my mind. I was going to write that, but I thought it was going to be too long. Great job summarizing it in a couple of sentences. LOLOL
Lol…thanks man.
If i were Russian, i would stop being a hypocrite and stop hating on a country invaded and annexed by my country for putin’s personal reasons
There exists a country squeezed in between Ukraine and Romania. It is called Moldova. Currently our troops are in Moldova carrying our a joint exercise. The Biden administration has also given Moldova a $160 million gift. The proposition that Moldova becomes a NATO state will follow soon.
Great news then. And F Putin.
Hope Moldova repatriates all the separatist idiots from transnistria soon.
NATO nations would be in a much better position now and in the future WITHOUT the USA dominating their activities with regard to Russia! The USA would rather call Putin’s mother a whore than prevent the needless slaughter of thousands of Ukrainians! From where I sit, Russia is a far more trustful partner than the USA could ever hope to be! let’s all hope that truth prevails in all this, and the spiteful destructive lies of the American Deep State are fully exposed!
F your dumbass President, Putin.
The US has no leadership or any rational minds. Ukraine has already lost, and Russia is now more determined to nullify any chance of NATO involvement .
Just bull… to prop up the clown. They just to keep Ukrainian hopes alive so they can keep fighting till November. They don’t another route like Afghanistan. If they were at all serious in this lunacy they would given them map with a clear timeline. In the unlikely event the senile creature wins they will try for an armistice along the contact line ( with some arrangement of no nato structure within Ukraine) and declare victory.
When you have Russians as your neighbors. Lok.
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Blinken is correct. As usual, DeCamp just furthers Putin’s false narrative.
Watch out. Antiwar doesn’t like it when you criticize their highly honest and without agenda author.
Antiwar doesn’t care when you criticize our staff’s work.
Antiwar does care when you attack our staff.
There’s a difference.
Ukraine is a dying concept doomed to an ignominious end.
You must believe in unicorns and fairies also.
At least the rump sate of Ukraine will be able to field a Special Olympic team with all your wounded.
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