OpEdNews Article: Will NATO annex Ukraine?Pepe Escobar
BERLIN, March 4 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday that his country and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will not play an active role in the Ukraine conflict. "It is absolutely clear to us that there will be no NATO military involvement in this conflict,...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that all NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will eventually become a member state but the main focus now is to ensure the country prevails against Russia.Stol
TEHRAN, Feb. 28 (MNA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance in the "long-term", but stressed that the immediate issue is it remaining an independent nation in dealing with Russia's attack. "NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will ...
Unlike the West, Russia has shown that it is willing to fight over Ukraine’s future strategic direction. The offer for Ukraine to joinNATOis likely to give Russia a reason to continue the war. If Ukraine begins the process of accession upon the war ending, Moscow will be encouraged to bl...
Ukraine and even its most hawkish allies agree that membership is a question for the future. “We understand that we cannot be a member of nato during the war,” acknowledged Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, last month, “but we need to be sure that after the war we will be.”...
“I will not join NATO.” But pressured by NeoCons in the Biden White House, and by violent fascist elements within the Ukrainian government, Zelensky integrated his army with NATO’s and allowed the U.S. to place nuclear-capable Aegis missile launchers along Ukraine’s 1,200-mile border...
CGTN's Global Watch is joined by Rong Ying, vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies. Rong said, it is a dangerous move that the U.S. and NATO have taken, since it will lead to escalation of the situation and miscalculation between the two sides....
Mr Putin claimed to have launched the war, at least in part, over NATO's eastward expansion towards Russia, but his military move has only made the alliance bigger. NATO leaders have previously promised Ukraine will join the alliance one day - but it is unlikely while the c...
Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg vowed that the US-led alliance would stand with Kyiv “for as long as it takes” in its defence against Russian aggression, during his first trip to Ukraine since the war began 14 months ago.