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NEW – Blinken: "Ukraine will become a member of NATO." pic.twitter.com/4r6ysyHv7O — THEWATCHTOWERS (@THEWATCHTOWERS) April 4, 2024 NATO is going to “build a bridge” towards Ukraine becoming a member state of the defensive alliance, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on the organisation’s 75th birthday. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member states met in Brussels …
via Yahoo: The Defence Secretary is set to pledge to send 20,000 British military personnel to a major Nato exercise in eastern Europe as he warns the post-Cold War “peace dividend” is at an end. Grant Shapps will warn that “battle lines are being redrawn” as he announces the deployment of Army, Navy and RAF …
by Chris Black In the unlikely but nonetheless possible scenario where Ukraine completely collapses and gets annexed by Russia, the new NATO front-line would have to be set up in Eastern Poland, in the heart of Europe instead of its fringes. Having taken Ukraine and having battle hardened generals and troops, Russians would likely set …
Erdogan has signed the Protocol on Sweden's Accession to NATO. Sweden is about to become the 32nd NATO member state. 🇹🇷🇸🇪 pic.twitter.com/6Hbl70X43w — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 24, 2023
by Chris Black If, at any point before February of 2022, someone would have said “I think the Ukraine, an impoverished former Russian territory with a population of 40 million people, can attack and destroy Russia, a superpower nation with 150 million people,” people would have just blinked at you. Somehow, it became gospel that …
by Chris Black Keep giving Ukraine hope but keeping it in the friend-zone. Very sad. 🚨BREAKING: NATO rejects Ukraine attempt to join May be able to join in future but NATO refuses to provide timeline WW3 is held off…for nowhttps://t.co/yow3qZH1dU — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 11, 2023 Anyway. The End pic.twitter.com/Vr6YI7qznY — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July …
by Chris Black It’s not really clear how anyone was talking about the Ukraine joining NATO while they are in the middle of a war, as that would effectively mean that NATO was declaring war on Russia. There is a mutual defense pact that would be triggered as soon as the papers were signed. NATO …
by Chris Black A peace deal with Russia would include “security guarantees.” The Ukraine always had security guarantees with Russia before the US-backed 2014 Maidan coup, and they had security guarantees under the Minsk Accords, which they unilaterally abolished by continuing to attack the Donbass. RT: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has argued that NATO should …
by Chris Black I bet no one will appreciate his effort, i.e., neither Putin nor the West (“Zelensky”) would ever be interested in this kind of deal. RT: The French government may attempt to lure Kiev to the negotiating table with Russia by offering support for Ukraine’s accession to NATO after the conflict is over, …
by Chris Black This literally means perpetual war in the blackhole that is the Ukrainian government, one of the most corrupted in the world. I don’t even know what that means: "We will make clear that Ukraine's future is in NATO" – @jensstoltenberg pic.twitter.com/wte3gotoBL — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 14, 2023 https://twitter.com/USNATO/status/1669312527631523843 Granted, a “NATO …
by Chris Black Former NATO chief is calling for NATO boots on the ground in the Ukraine. This is basically normalizing war with Russia for gay rights in the Donbass. FYI Russia is world’s 1st nuclear power. More and more, we are hearing think tanks and other powerful people talk about sending NATO in, because …
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock claimed that the doors of the US-led military bloc still remain open Ukraine cannot join NATO while it remains locked in a conflict with Russia, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said. Last month, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also expressed skepticism about Kiev’s admission into the US-led military bloc. Speaking ahead …