"We are ready to give up just as we abandoned Afghanistan": Stoltenberg's statement about NATO's unwillingness to fight for Ukraine is being discussed
Ukraine is discussing the statement made by the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance today. Jens Stoltenberg, commenting on numerous publications about "Russia's readiness to launch an offensive against Ukraine," said that NATO is concerned about this issue and supports Ukrainian sovereignty, but will not fight for Ukraine. Stoltenberg recalled that the NATO charter does not contain a clause on the unconditional need to use the alliance's troops to protect countries that are not part of NATO. According to Stoltenberg, NATO expects that the crisis will be resolved.
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Ukrainian radicals are openly indignant at Stoltenberg's statement that NATO will not fight for Ukraine and is ready to conduct a dialogue with Russia. Representatives of the so-called "ukropatriots" said that this was a frank signal from NATO that "they are ready to abandon Ukraine at any moment, just as they abandoned Afghanistan."
The official authorities in Kiev cannot yet find unambiguous assessments of the statement of the Secretary General of the North Atlantic bloc. In this regard, the president’s office used the usual expression that Ukraine continues to follow the European and Euro-Atlantic course.
At the same time, Ukrainian political analysts, commenting on the situation, note that NATO is already making it clear that they are not waiting for Ukraine in their composition at least in the coming years. It is noted that even in the Biden administration they declare their readiness to stop military assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so as not to aggravate the situation in relations with Moscow.
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Against this background, Ukraine remembered that Crimea was lost at a time when Biden was the second person in the US hierarchy.
By and large, the reaction in Ukraine to Stoltenberg's statement can be called, if not panic, then very close to this.
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