Nato official apologises over suggestion Ukraine could give up land for membership
www.theguardian.com
Secretary general’s chief of staff says statement was ‘mistake’ and part of wider discussion – but does not completely rule out idea

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1335364

Oh hey, we're back to where it all begun. Only took a couple million displaced.

  • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s about how a nato official blurted something out

    He wanted them to consider it, otherwise he wouldn't have said it. This is not some guy in the pub having a chat with his friends and he "blurted it out" over some beers. These are bureaucrats with highly controlled chains of command.

    emediatly had to apologize

    He did that after the Ukrainian backlash.

    I'm not going to debate who's wining, since you're going to pull out some RT stats. What I'm arguing is the point tankies keep pushing that NATO is somehow pushing Ukrainians into a war against their will, and that NATO is not open to a negotiation to end the war.

    You had literally a NATO official suggesting Ukraine to give up territory to stop the war. Ukrainians getting outraged, and him having to backpedal.

    • Flaps [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Hell, at first you said NATO made a proposition, nicely ignoring that they didn't do such a thing at all. As I said, and as we agree, it's a nato official, blurting something out.

      NATO has pushed ukraine deeper and deeper I to this conflict, casualties be damned. You speak as if the Ukrainian working class can't wait for the opportunity to get blown to pieces by artillery for some bourgeoisie state that's already stelling of the nations assets to the highest western bidder. NATO forces the Ukrainians to use counter insurgency tactis they've deployed for war crimes in the global south, expecting Ukrainian draftees to be so filled with patriotism (that, or hatred for those damned asiatic hordes) they'd happily drive into a minefield for Zelensky.

      Had NATO been open to ending the war, the war would have already ended. Yet they keep sending weapons upon weapons (to what end? Do you really think ukraine is going to get crimea back? As the famed counteroffensive should point out, they're no where close, and they'll never be.)

      What I'm willing to give you is that maybe now, NATO pencil pushers see the reality of the situation on the field, that the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Ukrainians they've sent to their deaths died for absolutely nothing. Maybe now, with this nato official blurting out the thought/proposing it through a rigourus chain of command, the Ukrainians realise NATO fed them to the meat grinder to advance its own geopolitical intrests. Even if Now NATO starts to carfully think about negotiations, that doesn't undo the fact that NATO has kept this conflict going for far longer than it needed to, out of sheer self (but mainly American, see the Nord stream pipeline) intrests.

      Edit, said keystone instead of nordstream pipeline

      Oh shit nvm you're that 'NATO is giving guarantees to eastern Europe' guy lmao.