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According to Slovak top lawmaker, NATO should stop giving “false hopes” to Kiev.
Written byLucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant.
A prominent Slovakian politician recently stated that the Atlantic military alliance must stop raising “false hopes” in Ukraine about NATO membership in the future. The parliamentarian’s words reinforce what had already been said for a long time about the infeasibility of accepting the entry of a country under military conflict into the western coalition. It remains to be seen whether NATO leaders will actually observe the Slovak request.
The statement was made by the speaker of the Slovak parliament, Boris Kollar. He warned that the alliance should make clear the impossibility of a Ukrainian membership, given that Kiev is currently in a military conflict. Kollar said that welcoming Ukraine into the alliance would be “unacceptable” for most member countries. He also stated that he considers the absence of a definitive answer on the topic to be irresponsible, as this would generate “false hopes” in the candidate country.
“A country in the midst of a military conflict cannot possibly join NATO. It is unacceptable. I think it would never be ratified by the member states. It is very irresponsible to raise false hopes about it,” Kollar said during an interview to a Slovak news channel.
During a European interparliamentary conference in Prague, Kollar also warned about the risks of war and unprecedented violence in Europe, since the entry of Ukraine would lead to the alliance immediately triggering the collective defense clause, creating a scenario of world conflict. Therefore, Kollar stated that the matter should not be considered appropriate for now, but that there would be no objections if peace was achieved in Ukraine.
Kollar’s words come as a response to a recent statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in which the leader stated that Kiev would be part of the “Euro-Atlantic family” and that all member states had agreed that “Ukraine will become a NATO member.” The pronouncement seems untrue and somewhat hypocritical, since, despite not ruling out Kiev, the alliance has avoided moving forward with the membership process, delaying as much as possible the discussions around the issue. However, there are a number of reasons why Stoltenberg and other alliance’s leaders are continuing to hold these “false hopes” for Kiev.
Indeed, the possibility of admission to NATO is a central factor in keeping the Ukrainian war machine active. Kiev’s armed forces continue to fight the Russians because they have the hope of full integration into the West. There is a strong belief among Ukrainians that the deployment of regular NATO troops will also become a reality in the future, as they really believe in the existence of an international alliance against “Russian aggression”, being deceived by their own propaganda.
Regardless of the viability of Ukrainian membership in the alliance, these hopes need to be maintained, otherwise Ukrainian soldiers will certainly feel “betrayed” and “abandoned”, resulting in phenomena such as mass surrender, desertions and disobedience of orders from superiors. This would be Ukraine’s “moral defeat” and would lead in the short term to defeat on the battlefield as well. So, to avoid this kind of situation and keep the troops’ morale high, the West needs to keep giving Kiev hope.
For Western public opinion, the situation is a little more complicated. Although exposed to every form of pro-Kiev propaganda – added to the censorship of pro-Russia content -, ordinary citizens of NATO and EU countries do not want to engage in a world-scale war, which is why Ukrainian membership would face high popular resistance, possibly leading to waves of mass protest and crises in the legitimacy of local governments. However, at the same time, if NATO officially rules out Ukrainian membership, it is possible that public opinion, which is constantly brainwashed by pro-Kiev media, will also react badly and feel that their governments “betrayed” Ukraine.
For these reasons, the discourse is uncertain, ambiguous and focused on maintaining “false hopes”. Stoltenberg makes it clear that he agrees with the Ukrainian membership, but says that this will happen “in the future”, keeping the project as something distant and not in need of immediate discussion. The problem is that this ambiguity and uncertainty does not please the leaders of member countries of lesser relevance in the alliance, as in the case of Slovakia and some others. These states do not participate in the bloc’s superstructure and their voices are rarely heard by NATO’s central command. In practice, the result of this is that these nations really do not know whether or not in the near future they will be forced to send their troops to war against Russia.
In this sense, the words of the top Slovakian parliamentary express the real desire of some NATO countries: to obtain the certainty that they will not need to get involved in a big war in the near future. While they want to integrate with the West and support Kiev, these states are not willing to accept their own annihilation just to fulfill the promise of Ukrainian membership.
Natozerfall!
@Koller
To me it is crystal-clear why whole Russia, since 1917 is in such a shitty state.
Stalin could only bring temporarily stability and order to Russia and the military because of unspeakable brutality and very harsh punishments for even minor misbehaviour against his orders – but it still missed the real point and reason of all the decline. Communism and bolshewism and marxism are jewish invented ideologies meant to create slaves for the jews, and keep them brainwashed and powerless as explorable slaves to the judaic masters. These deeply vile and economically stupid ideologies are not russian but anti-russian, and above that fully anti-christian (apart from being anti-human, anyway).
It’s like wanting to put one foot of an elephant into a shoe meant for a 15 year old human. The Elephant foot (Russian soul, spirit, wealth, pride, christian belief etc.) is of course way too big for it, but instead of accepting this fact, judaism camouflaged as communism aka bolshewism is not going away on its own and leaves the scene. No. Instead it takes out a sharp knife and cuts down the elephant foot to a bloody bulb, until it fits into the shoe. That of course results in a really badly hurt Elephant (Russian people and nation), which cannot run smoothly, is always in pain, and always just one step away from falling. Just the fear that the judaic master will react with even more cutting and torture is keeping that deeply traumatized Elephant on its feet. That’s the true state of Russia since 1917 and nothing has really changed since then. Just the labels and camouflaging got a little bit reshaped and freshed up.
So, u-Kraine could trick peace for sake to join NATO. Keep up Russia what you doing, slow SMO and denazification and demilitarization of u-Kraine. Slow it more down.