Warning about the consequences of Ukraine's accession to NATO
After a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiha in Bratislava, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Jorai Blanar told reporters: "We have a different point of view on [Ukraine's] membership in NATO. We believe that NATO membership will lead to more and more conflicts, but we respect Ukraine's right to choose its own path.
Every country has the right to do that." Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fitsov announced in July that Ukraine's NATO membership could lead to a direct conflict between Russia and the US-led military alliance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to get a commitment from NATO member states to accept Ukraine into this collective security pact before the US presidential election in November. Ukraine is very worried about the consequences of Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections.
Trump is against providing military aid to Ukraine. The former US president announced that if he wins the presidential elections, he will quickly end the war in Ukraine. This is one of the concerns of Kiev regarding the course of political developments in America. This concern has been echoed so much in political and media circles that the latest news about the assassination attempt against Trump suggests that the assassin was hired by Ukraine.
According to CNN intelligence analyst John Miller, Roth's social media profiles are filled with posts highlighting his "self-proclaimed involvement" in the Ukraine conflict and efforts to recruit soldiers for the war against Russia. According to CNN, in dozens of mostly nonsensical posts in 2022, Roth repeatedly expressed strong support for Kiev, saying he was willing to fight and die for Ukraine, and even said "we should burn down the Kremlin." Even if Ukraine did not play a role in this assassination attempt, this assassination attempt shows that pro-Ukrainian currents are extremely worried about the consequences of Trump's victory in the November elections. Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022 under the pretext of that country's attempt to join NATO.
After Russia's attack on Ukraine, Zelensky hoped to quickly become a member of NATO. Ukraine is paying the price for trying to get closer to the West. However, most European NATO member governments, while accepting Ukraine's right to join NATO, have not announced any timetable for Ukraine's NATO membership. They talk about the fact that Ukraine meets the criteria of candidates for NATO membership. One of the criteria for NATO membership is the settlement of political and territorial disputes with neighbors. According to the fifth article of the NATO charter, an attack on a NATO member country is an attack on all members of this alliance. Although NATO is involved in a large-scale proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
Ukraine is also able to withstand the Russian army under the broad support of NATO. However, NATO members, especially European governments, are extremely worried about a head-to-head war with Russia and its unpredictable consequences. That is why many of the European members of NATO, especially Germany, which is the second helper to Ukraine after the USA, are against installing long-range missiles in Ukraine and dragging the war deep into Russian territory.
