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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Ukraine wasn’t trying to join NATO before Russia invaded

In the years before war, Ukraine’s leaders made enthusiastic pleas about their desire to bring the country into NATO, and the prospect rose in popularity in public polls

Ukraine’s leaders in recent years have made enthusiastic pleas about their desire to bring the country into NATO — especially current President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was elected into office in 2019.

His election came on the heels of a move by Ukraine’s parliament to enshrine the goals of joining NATO and the European Union into the country’s constitution in September 2018.

Three years later, Zelenskyy sat in the Oval Office, meeting with President Joe Biden during an official visit to the U.S., and he told reporters he planned to press his American counterpart on the question of Ukraine’s “chances to join NATO and the timeframe." No timeline or further commitment came out of the meeting.

But while Ukraine’s leadership has directly pressed for membership since at least 2008, it hasn’t always been popular in the country.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ukraine wasn’t trying to join NATO before Russia invaded neighbors including Crimea in Ukraine,

2018 and 2019 were well after Crimea, and the popular opinion in Ukraine shifted towards NATO in 2008 because of the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, one of said neighbors.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But while Ukraine’s leadership has directly pressed for membership since at least 2008

because of the Russian invasion of Georgia

Why stop there? Lets argue about the Winter War.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because the Soviet Union who is not Russia fought the winter war, and Russia's government signed the Budapest memorandum in 1994.

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