President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 11 that he has “received signals that certain wording is being discussed without Ukraine,” noting that the “wording is about the invitation to become NATO member, not about Ukraine’s membership.”
“It’s unprecedented and absurd when a time frame is not set neither for the invitation nor for Ukraine’s membership. While at the same time vague wording about ‘conditions’ is added even for inviting Ukraine,” Zelensky wrote on Twitter.
“It seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance.”
Zelensky noted that this hesitation provides an opportunity for Russia to continue its terror in Ukraine. He emphasized that he will openly discuss the issue once he arrives at the summit.
On July 10, Zelensky informed of his plans to join the allies in Vilnius, announcing bilateral talks with the U.S., Canada, Japan, and several European countries.
Davidas Matulionis, Lithuania’s ambassador to NATO, said on July 11 that Ukrainian will not receive an invitation to join the Alliance at the summit. The allies will, however, present conditions under which such as invitation could be granted.
Kyiv applied for a fast-tracked NATO membership in September 2022. The country looks for a strong signal on its entry into the Alliance at the Vilnius summit on July 11-12. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Kyiv should be able to skip the Membership Action Plan on its path to accession.
However, even this procedure would still oblige Ukraine to carry out reforms and would not set any time frame for Ukraine’s accession.
(C) 2023 The Kyiv Independent
Ukrainians keep dying to join a bloc which out of cowardice keeps rejecting them. What a terrible tragedy.
He’s exactly right about this. Biden has no clear plan, goal, or clue of how America can force russia to give up. Ben Shapiro was describing the same thing just yesterday on his Monday show at the Daily Wire.
For all his wishy-washiness on Iraq, standing up on an aircraft carrier with a huge banner that read “mission accomplished,” at least bush jr was making a clear statement. Biden won’t even do that. But he certainly abandoned Afghanistan when he could at least have given them a minimum of support with air reconnaissance for the Afghani ground strike teams. I’m concerned that if biden gets a second term, he’ll do the same to Ukraine.
If the choice for POTUS is between Biden and Trump you better hope Biden wins. If you disagree you can only be a Putin puppet.
FYI. The “mission accomplished” comment by GWB was about Afghanistan not Iraq. And don’t forget it was Trump that negotiated the Afghan pullout. As usual, Putin puppets are always short on facts and loud on twaddling.
LOL, you MUST fall in line and agree with me or you are a putin puppet! There is nothing in between! Right? Sounds just like Hitler, congratulations.
I’ll eat my hat if Mac is a putler puppet.
Anyhow, we all have our issues with Biden’s weakness. This doesn’t mean that we’re automatically Trumpet fanboys, either. For me, the choice between the two clearly lies with Biden. Despite his faults.
I wish I could have been able to reply earlier, but working at the steel mill doesn’t offer me much time. I said here, “Biden has no clear plan, goal, or clue of how America can force russia to give up.” Posted on an article about “Zelensky blasting biden’s ‘unclear’ timeline for Ukraine joining NATO.” Perhaps, great oracle that you must be, of biden’s inner circle and strategic “genius,” you have some specific detail that biden described for what it ultimately means for a victory helped along from biden. No?
If you’re calling me out, an American, as a “putin puppet” for doubting my country’s president, then are you also calling President Zelensky a “putin puppet,” for the same doubts? Maybe you’re forgetting about how biden offered an evacuation to Mr. Zelensky and his family. To which Zelensky bravely replied with, “I don’t need a ride, I need more ammunition.”
Too much drama with zero substance. Next.
That’s exactly what I see from biden. He has NOT specified a plan for winning. Not at all. If he doesn’t give Americans and Ukrainians a clear plan for victory, then all it seems is wasting money for a finish line that always keeps moving away.
Well said.
‘Well said’? Mac wants Biden to give Ukrainians ‘a clear plan for victory’ LMAO! Okay…Whatever…..’Well said’….LMAO some more!
Not Biden but he AFU will fuck you for life.
I doubt Biden all the time, I just don’t suck-up to Ben Shapiro or any other RWNJ source when doing so. I also don’t see Zelensky sucking up to the RWNJ crowd, so weird, huh?
Maybe your point will make more sense if people knew what “RWNJ” meant. Since you called Ben Shapiro that, I assume “RW” is Right-Wing, but NJ? Are you saying he’s from New Jersey? Because Ben moved out of California, to live in Florida. I don’t trust trump. He advocated those deadly vaccines, the covid lockdowns, let that bastard fauci keep his multi-million dollar government “advisor” job, and was initially supportive of the perverted transgender nonsense. But biden was all of that, and worse. He’s weak, he ran scared from the taliban, he pointed to the russians, and even all but invited putin in! He said, “I think what you’re going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades. AND IT DEPENDS ON WHAT IT DOES. It’s one thing if it’s a MINOR INCURSION, and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera.” That sounds like he wouldn’t have done ANYTHING to stop putin, if say the kremlin only tried seizing another Ukrainian oblast. Still by my reckoning, an unjustifiable invasion, and an evil crime, but probably not enough to biden.
If biden’s such a great support for Ukraine right now, why then didn’t he stop obama from contributing to the current situation? Don’t forget, russia invaded the Donbas and seized the Crimea during 2014, in the middle of obama’s presidency. With biden as obama’s backup.
“if people knew what “RWNJ” meant.”
I double-clicked it, then right-click and selected ‘Search Google for “RWNJ”’, and learned that it stands for Right Wing Nut Job.
“MINOR INCURSION”
Shortly after Biden wrapped up his press conference, his press secretary Jen Psaki issued a statement trying to explain what he meant:
“If any Russian military forces move across the Ukrainian border, that’s a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, and united response from the United States and our allies.”
She said that “aggression short of military action” like cyberattacks and paramilitary hits “will be met with a decisive, reciprocal, and united response.”
“kremlin only tried seizing another Ukrainian oblast.”
Would you really consider that a “minor incursion”?
“why then didn’t he stop obama”
Obama was the President. President calls the shots.
Well I do appreciate it when people clarify confusing details. But it was joe biden who seemed to imply that the United States would do nothing if it was a “minor incursion.” And THEN later, jen psaki says that the United States response would be swift and severe against russia. Must I then assume that psaki has (or had, since she’s left the job of press secretary) more authority over this, than the president? Is she commander-in-chief? I don’t recall her name ever being on any American voter’s ballot. This is, was, and will always be to me, a matter of who says what, and whether they have the authority to say so.
“Incursion” can mean an invasion or an attack. Since it was unclear what he meant (because the word is ambiguous), Psaki clarified that a minor attack (such as a cyber attack) would be treated differently than an invasion – *any* invasion would be responded to severely.
Is it clear now?
Hi, Joe! No, not really because the invasion is already underway.
Mike – I don’t know why you keep referring to me as “Joe”; my name is Larry.
Mac seems to be confused by comments that President Biden made back in January, 2022, when Russia was still denying that they had plans to invade Ukraine, and President Biden was talking to allies not only to warn them about Russia’s plans, but also to get pledges to pressure Russia, help Ukraine defend itself, and accept refugees if necessary. (On one day alone, Biden spoke with leaders from the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Poland, and Romania; the secretary general of NATO; and the presidents of the European Union.)
Well, Joe :), our country should have warned RuSSia that if they invade beyond the ‘Minsk borders’ they will face the full force of Nato. But NOTHING happened.
Sorry, I thought everyone knew how to use Google.
-RWNJ
(informal, derogatory) Initialism of right-wing nut job.
Those RWNJs are obsessed with conspiracy theories.
The rest of your comment is just pure nonsense. But we did learn where your allegiant lies. As it turns out, you’re quite the Ben Shapiro fluffer.
Since he considers the Daily Wire to be a news source, that was already obvious.
I referenced a “Foreign Policy” article with that internet link. If you ignored it, that’s your choice, not mine.
I fuck friendly fire. Just saying…
“I fuck friendly fire.”
I googled that to see if it’s a common saying, since I never heard anyone say that before.
The results are most decidedly NSFW.
Just saying… 🙂
Don’t gimme the ass here. If you can’t comprehend American that’s your beer. Now GFY! Just sayin’…