NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirms that Ukraine will never join NATO. It's off the table.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirms that Ukraine will never join NATO. It's off the table.
Re: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirms that Ukraine will never join NATO. It's off the table.
In fresh comments NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confirmed that NATO membership for Ukraine is off the table when it comes to negotiations with Russia to end the war.
Rutte in an interview Friday was asked by Bloomberg TV’s Annemarie Gordern if Trump has definitely removed the issue of Ukraine’s accession to NATO from the negotiating table. Rutte answered "yes" and nodded in the affirmative when pressed.
The issue of NATO constantly expanding right up to Russia's borders, which especially ramped up in the mid-2000s during the Bush era, has been consistently identified by President Putin as a key motive in his ordering hundreds of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February of 2022.
Rutte explained in the new Friday Bloomberg TV interview Europe could normalize ties with Russia when the war is over. "It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the US, step by step, to restore normal relations with Russia," he stated.
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Rutte in an interview Friday was asked by Bloomberg TV’s Annemarie Gordern if Trump has definitely removed the issue of Ukraine’s accession to NATO from the negotiating table. Rutte answered "yes" and nodded in the affirmative when pressed.
The issue of NATO constantly expanding right up to Russia's borders, which especially ramped up in the mid-2000s during the Bush era, has been consistently identified by President Putin as a key motive in his ordering hundreds of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February of 2022.
Rutte explained in the new Friday Bloomberg TV interview Europe could normalize ties with Russia when the war is over. "It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the US, step by step, to restore normal relations with Russia," he stated.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ion-russia