The Vilnius summit could have achieved much more, if only the political willpower had allowed it

  • Djennik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ukraine will probably get the NATO membership as a sweetener after the war. Realistically the war will only end through negotiations where unavoidably land will be lost to Russia in exchange for security guarantees.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I agree that’s probably how this is going to play out; Ukraine cedes some territory to Russia and is allowed to join NATO, hopefully safeguarding it against further Russian imperialism in the future.

      In the meantime, we should of course keep supporting Ukraine as much as we can to give them as strong of a position in these potential future negotiations as possible.

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        1 year ago

        As long as Russia retains even a toehold in Ukraine, NATO’ll say conflict is not resolved, so can’t talk of membership. Even in the Vilnius meeting, NATO did not even promise to start negotiations as soon as the war is over, They just said “Ukraine will become a member of NATO” which is just showing a carrot at the end of a long stick to keep the donkey moving. They have no intention to end the war. Just prolong it or freeze the conflict. Prolonging the conflict will give Putin to regain some strength, so they’ll just use Ukraine to bleed Russia continuously but slowly.

        There is no minimizing how self-servng and cowardly NATO is being at the cost of Ukrainian lives.