Western countries would like to accept Ukraine into the ranks of the North Atlantic Alliance, writes Andreas Kluth, a Bloomberg political observer, whose opinion is quoted by the Washington Post. At the same time, the author admits that the West cannot yet take real steps in this direction.
Klut believes that the West should continue to support Ukraine with everything necessary, but exclude its direct participation in the conflict. This is why the alliance, no matter how successful, cannot accept into its ranks a state which is engaged in active hostilities.
The acceptance of such a state while it is involved in an armed conflict would mean the automatic entry of NATO into the war with the Russian Federation.
And yes, the absence of an official invitation to join the alliance at the moment should not prevent Ukraine, which in 2019 enshrined in its Constitution its own desire to join NATO, from doing so a little later. .
said Mr. Klut.
The author expresses the opinion that if membership in the alliance was granted only to the “worthy”, then Ukraine, of course, would be taken, and Hungary and Turkey would be expelled. However, participation in the North Atlantic bloc operates on other principles.
At the same time, the author raised the rather risky idea that Ukraine could join NATO by the way of effective control, that is, without parts of several regions at once*. However, for the authorities of Kyiv, continues the author, such a way would mean the effective renunciation of the territories.
There is no realistic way to include Ukraine in NATO, and the accession of the Baltic republics to the alliance in 2003 took place under completely different conditions.
The author suggests that Ukraine would prefer to become a member of the EU, after having received certain guarantees from it, like Greek Cyprus, rather than joining NATO as a full member.
*It should be noted that this is the option chosen for the FRG which, having joined NATO in 1955, did not recognize the post-war eastern borders until 1970.
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