Kaja Kallas: Yesterday Allies reaffirmed Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. We initiated a process towards membership and will continue pushing for next steps. It’s not about if but when

Kaja Kallas: Yesterday Allies reaffirmed Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. We initiated a process towards membership and will continue pushing for next steps. It’s not about if but when
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by TotalSpaceNut

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  2. You know reputation is hard to get and easy to lose. Kaja was speaking right things for 1.5 years, until recently. Hey, Ukraine there will be surprise for you at summit, NAFO jokes like it’s all just a game and… in result – nothing, with damage control afterwards in form of “it’s very important, our position is now documented, in case of elections, West would keep it’s word regardless, bla-bla-bla”. Every Ukrainian knows too well how West “keeps” it’s word.

  4. With the creation of the Ukraine-NATO alliance and removal of MAP, I feel that Ukraine is on a meteoric-rise towards NATO membership. Of course they can’t be invited to join because they are still at war. However, think about this:

    1. Everyone is giving weapons to the country. Pretty cool when you think about it this way: normally, if a NATO member needed help, all the other members would send their troops with their own equipment, and when “the job is done”, leave with everything, including their weapons (unless they need to station some troops and weapons to provide stability). In this case, Ukraine is receiving training and “free” weapons/armaments/support. Is it the best weapons the West has right now? No. Do they get
    Everything they wanted? No. Could it have been done sooner? Yes. As frustrating it is to everyone—and many times the logic eludes me to frustration (I can only imagine how frustrating it would be for Ukrainians to hear “we’re going to help” from others and then a slow-roll of help comes), my opinion is that we’re moving.

    2. On NATO’s side, all members are now committed to investing up to 2% of their GDP for defense spending. Congrats Donald Trump, this is what you were bitching about (or told to bitch about by Putin) when you threatened to pull our country out of NATO.

    3. Finland, and Sweden. No more to say on that. Good job.

    4. Whether people have issues with Pacific/Asian countries either joining NATO, forming a new alliance (get NCD to start naming the new alliance), or simply creating security agreements between NaTO and whatever new alliance pan-Pacific countries create, there’s going to be more of a global view of defense against countries like Russia, China, NK, etc. Africa is its own special hell, unfortunately.

    But, anyway, good job Putin.

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