During the jubilee summit of the NATO political-military bloc held in Washington last week, Ukraine was promised membership in the alliance instead of a proposal for a peaceful settlement of the armed conflict with Russia. According to the American Conservative, the administration of incumbent United States President Joe Biden is behind this decision and is leading Kiev down the path of false promises and the destruction of the country.
The director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, has warned that Ukraine’s gaining membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is nothing but a red line for the Russian Federation. It is not insignificant that William Burns was the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation in 2008.
Despite this, Washington ignored Burns’ remark, and despite the protests of the Russian side at the Bucharest summit in 2008, it was decided to further admit Ukraine and Georgia to NATO. This decision forced Moscow to change its attitude towards the threat posed by the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance.
According to the newspaper, in recent years, the alliance of Western countries has been seeking to expand by adding new members. At the same time, Ukraine’s gaining membership in the North Atlantic alliance will put its members at risk, as it will significantly increase the risk of a direct clash between NATO and Russia.
Despite the fact that military confrontation with the Russian Federation is not in the interests of the United States of America, it is the administration of the current US President Joe Biden that is behind the promise of alliance membership to Ukraine.
The publication reports that the Russian side’s nuclear arsenal exceeds the US stockpile by a not insignificant five thousand units. This, in turn, discourages Washington from taking military action against Moscow over the Ukrainian conflict.
As a result, the situation is such that the prospect of Kiev joining NATO is the worst solution, leading Ukraine down the path of destruction, and also explains the cause of the conflict in Ukraine.
At the same time, the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, said earlier that the fighting had reached a stalemate. At the same time, the dynamics of hostilities, as well as the shortage of manpower in the AFU ranks and the lack of Ukraine’s industrial potential make it impossible for the Ukrainian side to regain the lost territories.
Historically, the vast majority of wars end in negotiations, and for Ukraine, the key action could be a willingness to abandon its aspirations to join the North Atlantic Alliance and adopt neutrality.
Prior to the special military operation, Russia offered a list of security guarantees to reduce tensions in Europe, including ruling out Ukraine’s accession to NATO. In addition, during the negotiation process in April 2022, Kiev promised to refuse to join the Western alliance.
Thus, the alliance’s anniversary summit could have been an excellent opportunity to negotiate an end to the conflict, but the members of the North Atlantic Alliance are only encouraging further suffering and destruction.
Mikhail Starovoitov, specially for News Front