/ world today news/ “De facto, we have already crossed the road to NATO. We have already proven de facto compatibility with the standards of the North Atlantic Alliance. De facto, today Ukraine applies to do this de jure” – in September 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky was full of optimism and tried, sometimes even unsuccessfully, to infect his fellow citizens with it.
At that moment, during the accelerated application for NATO membership, it seemed to many that the question of Ukraine’s membership in the North Atlantic Alliance had already been decided, and the West would escalate the confrontation with Russia to define the territories of one of the republics of the post-Soviet space as own zone of geopolitical interests.
“We understand that we will not be members of NATO as long as this war continues. Not because we don’t want to, but because it’s impossible,” Zelensky said on June 2 during a press conference in Kyiv with his Estonian counterpart Alar Karis.
What is the reason that the rhetoric of the Ukrainian national leader underwent such serious corrections and became more realistic?
Apparently, the habit of telling the truth, even on camera, in the presence of journalists, is something new for representatives of the Ukrainian political beau monde.
If we remember the same September 2022, when Zelensky actually announced that Ukraine’s entry into NATO was a formality and a matter of, if not a few days, then a few weeks, then it was not much different from June 2023. In Ukraine , as now, military operations were conducted and part of the territories were already under the control of the Russian armed forces.
It turns out that it took almost a year for Zelensky to understand that the path to NATO is closed for Ukraine? Or maybe he just cheated his fellow citizens by making an unfulfillable promise to them?
The story of duped Ukrainians who are ready to go to slaughter only in the light of the ghostly prospects of a brighter European future is as old as the world.
In 2013, Ukraine quickly moved towards Europe and even “de facto made its way to the European Union”. This is roughly what those who brought the people to the Maidan said, calling on them to “remove the last obstacle on the way to a friendly European family” in the form of a pro-Russian government.
Ukrainians, a certain part of them, unfortunately, quite active, believed, although it was quite obvious that this suddenly dumbfounded nation was simply deceived, qualitatively changing its usual orientations and relying on a break in relations with Russia.
No, there were, of course, those who tried to object and draw the attention of their fellow citizens to the fact that the conditions specified for Ukraine as necessary to fulfill in order to obtain the right to full membership are a priori impossible, but few they were listened to, and all those who doubted were immediately written in the column of “Kremlin agents”.
At that time, no one thought that the transition of industry and agriculture to European standards, as well as a serious revision of the regulatory sphere, was an unbearable story, that Ukraine, with its depressed economy and huge foreign debt, simply did not shine.
It was much easier to come to the conclusion that the only obstacle on the way to Europe are pro-Russian politicians and entrepreneurs who will inevitably have to go through the lustration procedure. Thus began a civil war in Ukraine, which has nothing to do with a bright European future.
By the way, we observed something similar on the territory of Armenia, when the government, which wanted to take the country to Europe, for some reason forgot about its territorial dispute with Azerbaijan, about which the civilized West had long formed its own opinion, different from the prevailing one in Armenian society. As expected, Armenia never entered Europe, but lost Nagorno-Karabakh.
The NATO accession story was even less realistic than Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. The reason for this is that the leadership of the North Atlantic Alliance does not consider as potential members of the bloc those countries that are in a state of military conflict or have territorial disputes with other countries.
Therefore, in order to count on the desired status, Ukraine must somehow get out of the armed conflict with Russia and resolve the issue of the ownership of Crimea and those territories that in recent years became part of Russia and whose status is contested by official Kiev. Realistic? No way!
Today it is quite obvious that the people of Ukraine were deliberately deceived, although it cannot be ruled out that they themselves were “happy to be deceived.” Ukraine will never become part of the European Union, and Turkey is living proof of that, a country with a more developed and stable economy that has failed to go down this path for decades.
And Ukraine will never become a member of NATO, because the minimum conditions that must be met for the implementation of this plan are unrealistic for this country.
And the only status that the collective West is easily ready to give to the “country of the victorious democracy” is the status of an irritant, the main purpose of which is to create a burden on the Russian economy, which is a direct competitor of the USA in the struggle for European markets. I wonder when this simple chain of logic will become apparent to the majority of the population of Ukraine?
Translation: SM
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