NATO membership for Ukraine would have prevented war, says Finland’s PM

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  1. Sure but joining alliances usually require 3 things:

    Applying, joining before war, and living up the the requirements of the other members.

    There is nothing wrong with the statement, but it would have been a completely different world for Ukraine to be a nato member before all this.

  2. I kinda disagree. Let’s not forget that it was the NATO membership goal that Russia used to justify their invasion.

    I don’t think it mattered what time you did it. Maybe if we tried in 2010 or something Russia may have just invaded then.

    It’s likely that the invasion of Ukraine was evitable.

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    Wasn’t really going to be a circumstance in which Russia allowed NATO to merge with Ukraine.

  3. There would be no Wars if Dinosaurs didn’t become extinct.

    We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning.

  4. NATO should intervene in Ukraine now so the war would end sooner. Imagine if US and UK would have made Operation overlord already in september 1939

  5. Its widely accepted that Russia deliberately compromised Georgias and Ukraines territorial integrity to prevent them from joining NATO.

    Now we can speculate about NATO taking them in, but I think it is very likely it would always have come down to countries willing to intervene before these countries would have entered NATO due to Russia pulling the same stunt it did in Georgia.

    Every country including Finland had this chance to step up and did not take it anyway, for one specific reason and it would always have been there.

  6. Nato membership is simply a formality that the nuclear powers within nato agree to protect you from other nuclear powers.

    If they wanted to protect ukraine now, they could just do that.

    The only conclusion is that nuclear weapons are necessary for a country to avoid being attacked.

  7. Obviously. Despite all the rhetoric about being at war with NATO, Russian wouldn’t have the balls to do so in reality. Just goes to show you, if you neighbor Russia better join NATO asap.

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