– Zelensky Throws Tantrum Over ‘Weak, Absurd’ NATO Stance On Ukraine Membership:
It’s become a familiar enough pattern by now: NATO countries make ‘pledges’, give billions in arms and other aid to Ukraine, commit to F-16 jets and training programs for Ukrainian pilots, and chart new military build-ups along NATO’s eastern flank… but like the hit song from The Greatest Showman, it’s actually “Never Enough”.
Despite AFP reporting Monday that NATO is set to drop its long-standing Membership Action Plan (MAP) in the case of Ukraine, President Zelensky is lashing out at the alliance’s ‘soft language’ on membership. The Ukrainian leader scolded NATO, and by implicit extension the Biden administration, for refusing to lay out a clear timeline on Ukraine’s future membership in the alliance.
This even after Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has promised to push for a fast-tracked process to be implemented at that future point in time when the alliance is ready to seriously mull Ukraine’s application, hence dropping the MAP requirement, a major hurdle which all other members had to endure between 1999 and 2020. A statement is now being carefully crafted by NATO heads of state in Vilnius on Ukraine’s “path to membership,” Reuters has confirmed.
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