Friday, September 5, 2014

NATO Is Not Ready To Admit Ukraine As A Full Fledge Member

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (L) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen talk during the NATO-Ukraine meeting at the NATO Summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales, September 4, 2014. (Reuters/Facundo Arrizabalag)

NATO Too Wary of Russian Threats to Let Ukraine Join -- Simon Shuster, Time

Despite Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine, the U.S.-led alliance is keeping Kiev at a distance

With its aggression against Ukraine, Russia achieved in just a few months what Vadim Grechaninov has been trying to do for a decade. His mission as President of the Atlantic Council of Ukraine, a lobbying organization based in Kiev, has been to convince his country’s leaders, citizens and military officers that joining NATO is Ukraine’s only path to security. He never had much success. According to a Pew Research poll taken in 2009, a majority of Ukrainians—51%—opposed NATO membership, while only 28% supported it.

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Update: Western powers do not intend to go to war over Ukraine -- RT

My Comment: It appears that NATO decided to take seriously Russia's warnings and threats on admitting Ukraine as a member of NATO. For Ukrainian presdient Poroshenko .... I suspect that this was told to h

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