However, NATO will meet its €40 billion military aid target for Ukraine.
BY YEVHENIIA MARTYNIUK
16/10/2024
Dutch PM Mark Rutte at the Munich Security Conference. Photo: securityconference.org “I can’t support Zelenskyy’s whole Victory plan,” says NATO chief Rutte
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s so-called Victory plan as a “good signal” but stopped short of fully endorsing it.
This lukewarm response comes as Zelenskyy prepares to visit Brussels on Thursday to promote his plan, presented to Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday.
“I can’t say I support the whole plan — that would be a bit difficult because there are many issues, of course, you need to understand better,”Rutte said.
The plan aims to end the war by securing a NATO membership invitation and continued arms shipments to force Russia to negotiate. Zelenskyy emphasized that a NATO invitation could be “truly fundamental” for peace.
Rutte acknowledged NATO’s support for Kyiv but expressed reservations.
“We need to hammer out with Ukrainians to understand what is behind it, to see what we can and cannot do,” he said.
However, he announced the alliance would reach its €40 billion military aid target for Ukraine.
NATO has long promised Ukraine eventual membership but has yet to extend a formal invitation. This hesitation stems from concerns among member countries, including the US, about potentially being drawn into a conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.
On 17 October, NATO defense ministers will meet with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov at a NATO-Ukraine Council meeting to discuss the battlefield and Ukraine’s urgent needs.
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Same old same old. A chip off the old block.
Rutte is carrying on where useless prick Stoltenberg left off. Which suggests that Nato leaders are merely figureheads, with the actual policy being formulated elsewhere; in this case seemingly Biden and Scholz.
Commenter Christine Gina says:
“Slow death because of sellout by West and Nato.”
Let us again quote James Sherr speaking to Brian Whitmore :
“The practical effects of a continuation of the Biden strategy by Kamala Harris or somebody else, in the next presidential term, will simply doom Ukraine to losing slowly.
There is no way Ukraine can win with such a strategy, which defies all military logic.”
On the flip side, is decapitation : Trumpkov’s cabinet will be packed with people who want Ukraine dead : comrade Brainworm, Gabbard, Colby, Ivan Muskovy and of course stellvertretender Führer VanZkov.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. What can Rutte do if the real policymakers are against it?
They will only wake up when THEY have drones, missiles, rockets, and artillery flying at them.