Paul E. Vallely, a retired US Army major general now serving as chairman of the Stand Up America Foundation, says that dangling NATO membership as a carrot in front of Kiev will end in nuclear war.
France has reportedly dropped a decade-and-a-half-old objection to prospective Ukrainian membership in NATO, ostensibly in the interests of forcing Russia to the negotiating table amid Kiev’s flagging counteroffensive. Paris' move is not only foolhardy, but highly dangerous, a pair of former US military officers have told Sputnik.
President Emmanuel Macron has reportedly agreed to the possibility of speeding up Ukrainian accession into NATO, reversing course on a policy pursued jointly by Paris and Berlin since 2008 to avoid triggering a direct conflict with Moscow.
“Ukraine’s entry into NATO would be perceived by Russia as something confrontational. You can’t imagine it with this kind of Russia,” Macron said as recently as December 2022.
But now, ahead of the long-awaited ...
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