Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?
Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?
The military alliance is turning 75. But there’s little to celebrate in Kyiv, as Putin’s forces continue their bloody advance
It’s for its members
45Yeah exactly...what. It's like asking if your families insurance didn't pay for the damage to the next door neighbours house, what is it for? Hopefully Ukraine will become a member of NATO soon and it will be a different story but right now Ukraine is not under the NATO umbrella.
22Please read the article
-10The article was written by someone that doesn't know what NATO is for. For all its problems NATO has excelled at doing what it was made to do, which is keeping Russia out of its members territories. Contrary to Russian propaganda NATO is not supposed to be the be-all and end-all of Western power projection - in fact there is no such organization.
19Please read the article
"Nato should have intervened robustly to deter Russia’s aggression right from the start, as repeatedly urged here. No-fly zones could have prevented thousands of civilian casualties and limited damage to Ukraine’s cities."
So stupid. The author is casually handwaving away the implications of nuclear armed countries directly going head to head when no NATO countries have been invaded. The author needs the most basic prior on geopolitics.
"Imagine how future historians may view all this."
I can imagine it going something like this: "It looks like they remembered the the implications of the death of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and successfully avoided WWIII"
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The whole thing is that NATO protects its member states right? That's why Vlad the Sad attacked a non member state?
25Yes, you’ve got it right. If Ukraine had been a member, Putin would have found another country to invade. Bullies pick on weak loners, not kids with lots of tough friends. The combined strength of NATO is more than the Russian military can handle.
I don’t understand why this article was written the way that it was. Although the author makes several valid points, it is most definitely not NATO’s job to police all of Europe. NATO exists to ensure the security of member states. Aside from some unlikely situations, “strength in numbers” is all NATO is for. A simple idea, but an effective one.
I do agree that Europe should be doing more to help Ukraine. That has absolutely nothing to do with the current condition of NATO, though. This could have been a powerful opinion piece, but my main takeaway is that the author doesn’t seem to understand NATO’s duties or purpose.
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What a stupid headline.
18NATO is based around its Article Five provision: An attack on any one NATO member becomes an attack on every single member of NATO.
Is Ukraine a member of NATO? Would they perhaps like to be?
16Is Ukraine a member of NATO? Would they perhaps like to be?
No, they’re not a member. Putin wouldn’t have attacked them if they were.
Ukraine would join tomorrow if they were allowed to.
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NATO? Better to ask what is the UN for? They should have a standing army ready to slap down dictators and genocidal maniacs if they step out of line.
14UN will remain powerless as long as the permanent security council members have veto right. It never should have been introduced.
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What a stupid fucking premise.
12This is the best summary I could come up with:
Advancing Russian forces in Kharkiv profit from the west’s culpably slow drip-feed of weaponry to Kyiv and its leaders’ chronic fear of escalation.
Restrictions on Kyiv’s use of western-made missiles to attack military bases and oil refineries inside Russia were, and are, self-defeating.
That’s because, for all their talk, like Nato as a whole, neither Sunak nor hawkish foreign secretary David Cameron, the Cotswolds kestrel, are prepared to step in directly to help Ukraine win.
The frontline situation grows critical, partly because Russia has exploited the delay, caused by Donald Trump’s allies, in delivering a $60bn (£47bn) US weapons package.
Aside from the dire consequences of Ukraine’s permanent partition or total subjugation, success for Putin’s neo-imperial project prospectively imperils a clutch of former Soviet republics – Georgia is one vulnerable example – the EU and European security.
Recurring spying rows, sabotage, assassinations, arson and cyber-hacks show Moscow “is waging war on European countries”, Russia expert Edward Lucas warned.
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3If anything NATO should be joining Ukraine, they're the ones liberating the Russian navy from its muscovite overlords
3it's not nato's failure, ukraine was engineered to be a puppet state of the west to attack russia
-12Wow - checking out your post history shows we've finally attracted the professional troll factories to these forums!
6how so?
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ukraine was engineered to be a puppet state of the west to attack russia
What makes you say that?
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You got:
- Ukraine actually attacked Russia, not the other way around
- It's all the West's fault our country fell apart and all our former colonies hate us
But you forgot:
- Russia is winning! Basically already won
- Ukraine = Nazis, therefore Russia = good guys, QED
- The sanctions aren't working, Russia's doing great
- No YOU shut up
- Russia wants peace, we keep having these peace talks where we say let us keep what we already stole and stop shooting us please until next time we feel like taking more, and our perfectly reasonable proposals get met with such rudeness you wouldn't believe, WESTERN SABOTAGE
I can tell these jokes because the US aid package came through. It's definitely not a simple thing and I'm not trying to make light of dying people, but I'm okay with making light of transparent bullshit
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