Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid.

While a formal timeline for it to join the military alliance was not agreed at a summit in Washington DC, the military alliance’s 32 members said they had “unwavering” support for Ukraine’s war effort.

Nato has also announced further integration with Ukraine’s military and members have committed €40bn ($43.3bn, £33.7bn) in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defence support.

The bloc’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said: “Support to Ukraine is not charity - it is in our own security interest.”

  • @ThePyroPython
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    3630 days ago

    We’ve tried this. Blair’s talks with Putin, Obama’s Russia Reset, energy cooperation in Europe, and that non aggression deal Russia signed with Ukraine.

    Putin threw all of that away when he invaded Crimea and then Ukraine.

    True peace in the region will be achieved by Putin being removed from power by the Russian people, ending the war at internationally recognised boarders, rebuilding Ukraine letting them choose their own path geopolitically, AND helping Russia rebuild from decades of corruption and kleptocracy.

    Until then the only way to stop Putin, who only recognises strength, is to fight back.

    • @TheDemonBuer
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      -2730 days ago

      True peace in the region will be achieved by Putin being removed from power by the Russian people, ending the war at internationally recognised boarders, rebuilding Ukraine letting them choose their own path geopolitically, AND helping Russia rebuild from decades of corruption and kleptocracy.

      If that is the best path to peace, then I hope all of those things are achieved. But, if other possibilities need to be considered, I’m open to considering them.

      • @NOT_RICK
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        1630 days ago

        He’s not interested in peace. Russia’s demands for a ceasefire are maximalist and would essentially erase Ukraine as a nation. They only pay lip service to diplomacy for international optics.

      • @Maalus
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        1430 days ago

        Medvedev literally said “we will invade Ukraine anyway after any peace deal goes through”. So how is your stance not appeasement of a warmongering dictator?

      • @Seleni
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        629 days ago

        An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill

        • @TheDemonBuer
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          -1029 days ago

          Nuke the crocodile, then. I’ve decided I don’t care anymore.

      • @[email protected]
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        529 days ago

        There isnt, they’ve been tried and failed. Time to block you for outing yourself as a Tankie

        • @TheDemonBuer
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          -529 days ago

          Isn’t Tankie a pejorative for Marxist-Leninists? I’m not a Marxist-Leninist.