Paphitis wrote:]
In case you didn’t know, Ukraine is not a NATO member. It applied and was vetoed by NATO in joining. So to be precise, as it stood, NATO did not want Ukraine as a member, at least for now. Why did NATO not want them? Probably because they did not want to antagonise the Russians.
Probably because adding Ukraine is riskier for all parties, (Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the US) than the benefits of Ukraine becoming a member.
So the objective of NATO is not to encircle Russia, or to start a WW3 and attack Russia.
The clear objective of NATO is defence from the kind of action Ukraine is subjected to.
So, adding Ukraine will trigger Russia to take action and then that would invoke NATO's Article 5. And everyone will, have to fight Russia..is that what you want?
Secondly, Ukraine can not be denied it’s sovereign right to forge ahead with alliances of its choice and to join the EU.
It can, the members can veto her accession.
If for instance it still wants to join NATO then no one could actually blame them for that desire. There is clearly a need for their own security to join NATO. Whether NATO lets them join is of course another matter.
For their own security, but that jeopardises everyone else's. The reason why Russia is taking action, is because Ukraine wants to joint nato. If Ukraine remained neutral, none of this would be happening. They want to join nato, but, it is Best for everyone if Ukraine remained neutral. Joining nato is not Ukraines right and nato is not obliged to accept Ukraine if it jeopordazies everyone else's safety..
Which brings me back to Cyprus. I think it’s time for Cyprus to follow in Ukraine’s footsteps. You are behaving like a NATO country anyway and an EU country and have placed sanctions on Russia. And so you should. So Pootin does not like you to say the least.