RE: Why NATO doesn't give to Ukraine plan of membership?
April 19, 2022 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2022 at 11:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The ukranians have proven no such thing, and doing so wouldn't get them into NATO at any rate.
Let's ignore that the official reasons given for slow walking ukraine are spin. Let's just tackle them for what they are..because even though they'd been used to cover appeasement as HappySkeptic notes above, they're till things that are supposed to be central to NATO inclusion. A commitment to democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law. Unless these things are exclusively western, and doing them makes you western by default, then proving yourself to be western isn't the issue....and if this is, actually, what that means, that these things are exclusively western and doing them makes you western....how does zipping around blowing up russian armor and slaughtering russian infantry satisfy any of that?
Or is that what it means to be western, and prove you're western? To curbstomp russia? Man that'd be humiliating for russia.
Let's ignore that the official reasons given for slow walking ukraine are spin. Let's just tackle them for what they are..because even though they'd been used to cover appeasement as HappySkeptic notes above, they're till things that are supposed to be central to NATO inclusion. A commitment to democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law. Unless these things are exclusively western, and doing them makes you western by default, then proving yourself to be western isn't the issue....and if this is, actually, what that means, that these things are exclusively western and doing them makes you western....how does zipping around blowing up russian armor and slaughtering russian infantry satisfy any of that?
Or is that what it means to be western, and prove you're western? To curbstomp russia? Man that'd be humiliating for russia.
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