Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Is NATO Doing Enough for Ukraine?" video.
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The lack of a framework or timeline for NATO membership for Ukraine is disappointing. It's doubly so when the NATO chief stands up tries to sell Ukraine some BS sprayed with rose perfume.
The only reason we're having this discussion is because in 1992, Ukraine was told, "someday".
The Russians arrived before "someday". Now, as Ukraine is spending the blood to fight a NATO enemy, NATO is telling Ukraine the same thing, "someday".
Still worse, the only reason Ukraine wasn't offered NATO membership was as an unofficial appeasement to Russia, an appeasement that we foolishly thought would "avoid provoking" Russia and prevent an invasion of Ukraine.
NATO was and is genuinely thinking with #RussianLogic
That said, the NATO charter would have to be modified or some technicality made to allow Ukraine to join NATO before the war is over and Ukraine liberated its territory.
The latter is actually the easier objective. Putin's Russia could simply refuse to ever sign a peace treaty, the way North and South Korea are still at war with merely an armistice cease fire.
Of course, NATO could use the same "pretend with words" that Putin does. Ukraine simply declare the war over, hostilities ceased, once their territory is liberated.
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