Secretary of State Antony Blinken displayed a propensity for reckless rhetoric by saying Ukraine will join NATO, a prospect he knows cannot happen.
“Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership,” he said.
Kuleba followed up Blinken’s statement by saying, “Of course, we believe that Ukraine deserves to be a member of NATO and that this should happen sooner rather than later.”in Ukraine initiated by Russia’s invasion in 2022, the prospect of the Eastern European nation joining the military alliance of Western Europe and the United States has dire implications.
As it stands today, Ukraine is losing ground to the invading Russian army that is significantly larger and better armed than the Ukrainian military. For a sovereign country that was unjustly invaded, this is a tragic reality but a reality nonetheless. Russia and its president Vladimir Putin have made clear that NATO membership for Ukraine is a motivator behind their unjust invasion. As unfair to Ukraine as this is, to allow Ukraine to join NATO at this juncture, or even discuss it openly, raises the prospects that the conflict in the region could escalate into a much greater one between nations that have and maintain massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons.This is not an outcome that is in the interests of the U.S.
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