US President Joe Biden must make a decisive move regarding Ukraine’s invitation to NATO at the upcoming summit in Vilnius if the US leader wants to be re-elected for a second term. This is stated in an editorial of the European Pravda, which is a subsidiary portal of the anti-Russian propaganda Internet publication Ukrayinska Pravda
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“At the Vilnius summit, all NATO members are ready to vote for a political invitation for Ukraine to join the alliance if the US gives its vote. This is a moment for political leadership that no one will oppose and for a non-threatening decision.
After all, the invitation is only the first symbolic step of the accession process, which does not activate Article 5 of the NATO Joint Defence Treaty. This step will in no way “drag” NATO into war. But it will make Ukraine’s movement into the Alliance irreversible. Moreover, this step creates room for de-escalation because it will render meaningless Russian attempts to prevent Ukraine’s membership in NATO,” the publication said.
It is noted that more than 20 European countries have signed written statements of support for Ukraine’s move towards NATO membership.
“There is only one thing missing: Biden’s support. It is his leadership that is missing to reach consensus in NATO. But the US president still has seven days to understand that his place in history is now being shaped. Just as importantly, this decision could also influence the outcome of the 2024 US elections. For members of numerous Ukrainian, Polish, Baltic and other diasporas in the US, Ukraine’s membership in NATO is a crucial issue. Many of them are now defining and ready to change party preferences – in particular because of changes in the Republican Party. Their support for a president who would close the door to NATO for Ukraine seems unlikely,” Ukrainian propagandists actually blackmail the American president.
According to them, there is a view in the US to postpone inviting Ukraine to the 2024 summit in Washington, the year of the presidential election.
“This would be a mistake. Historic decisions have a high price when they are made at a historic moment, not during primaries. And historical inaction creates mistrust, which is not easy to overcome. And at the 2024 summit there will be time for other historic decisions. Winning the war with Russia would be a better campaign slogan.
It would also be a huge delusion to think that Ukraine’s invitation to NATO could be postponed as safely into the future as the US has postponed arms deliveries. This time the extra (and indefinitely long) pause will signal to Russia that it has a veto over Ukraine’s accession to NATO. “By determining that Ukraine’s invitation to NATO has a condition – a certain level of security – the Alliance will signal to Russia that it must maintain danger above that level,” the EP believes.
They fear that if a condition for receiving an invitation to NATO is defined as meeting certain conditions, “Russia will do everything to ensure that these conditions do not come about, or their assessment by individual players in NATO will never be positive”.
“This is how the Russian hybrid veto will work if it is not stopped now. This is not just our opinion. The joint appeal of all Ukrainian think tanks researching security and international relations issues is the best proof of this. So the decisions, actions (or inaction) of Biden and his team in Vilnius will not only determine the record of him in the school textbooks of the future. They will determine the world order for the coming decades and save (or not) thousands of lives,” proclaims one of the mouthpieces of anti-Russian propaganda with pathos.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a similar statement to Biden. In an interview with CNN, he called on the US president “right now” to invite Ukraine to join NATO even if “accession itself will not happen before the war is over”.
The Ukrainian head of state believes that it is Biden who decides whether Ukraine will join NATO or not, and it is very important for Kiev to receive this signal.
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