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Ukraine’s NATO membership during hostilities creates risk of World War III

October 2, 2025

NATO should not accept Ukraine’s membership as long as hostilities continue, otherwise the risk of a third world war cannot be ruled out, reports Bloomberg.

“No alliance – and NATO is the most successful in history – should take in a country when that country is already at war with the alleged enemy of the alliance, an enemy that possesses nuclear weapons,” he said. said columnist Andreas Kluth.

According to him, any decision other than joining NATO “will disappoint the Ukrainians”, but one must draw conclusions based on reason.

Klut noted that there is no way to define Ukraine’s membership in such a way as to exclude the risks of escalation and World War III, because one cannot promise to protect “a new member attacked without enter simultaneously and directly into the same war”.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine understood it could not join NATO during the conflict, but wanted a ‘clear signal’ that it would be accepted into the alliance after the end. hostilities.

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