Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid.

While a formal timeline for it to join the military alliance was not agreed at a summit in Washington DC, the military alliance’s 32 members said they had “unwavering” support for Ukraine’s war effort.

Nato has also announced further integration with Ukraine’s military and members have committed €40bn ($43.3bn, £33.7bn) in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defence support.

The bloc’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said: “Support to Ukraine is not charity - it is in our own security interest.”

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The purely defensive pact keeps on expanding.

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Yeah, right after Russia invades one country, capturing and killing men, women, and children while threatening other countries. Weird…

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It didn’t start there.

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34 points

Where did it start?

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40 points

So? They are not forcing anyone to join. Unlike certain other countries

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So then how should russia feel and respond to this?

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23 points

Disengage from Ukraine and stop invading countries.

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Should anyone start invading when their feelings are getting hurt now?

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15 points

Well, generally, Russia can go fuck itself.

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11 points

They should feel that they lost the cold war and their kleptocracy isn’t conductive to expanding their already reduced sphere of influence, so they better make peace with the fact.

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3 points

By minding their own business? Why would they care?

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-47 points

The coup in 2014 was carried out by force.

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26 points

Lmfao stfu Tankie.

It’s a “coup” when I dislike it, and a glorious revolution when I do. /s

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11 points

The CIA paid a million people to stand out in the could for months on end? Whoa, where do they keep all these actors?

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Even if thats true (spoiler, it isnt) there have been plenty of free, internationally recognized (not just by the west), elections since them.

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I wonder why? What happened recently to get all these nations lining up to join Nato?

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NATO started expanding long before the current conflict.

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Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many former Warsaw Pact and post-Soviet states sought to join NATO.

Weird that the nations previously under authoritarian rule suddenly wanted to be part of a defensive pact once they had their freedom. That’s such an unforeseen outcome.

I mean, can you believe fucking NATO man? They were such assholes to check notes expand by allowing countries in who wanted to be in NATO to protect themselves. NATO really should have just dissolved instead of expanding and giving former Soviet block states protection from Russia.

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Please expand on your comment, it doesnt say much. As I understand it, a sovereign nation has opted to join a group under its own free will due in part to threats, invasions, land grabs and broken agreements by its nuclear capable neighbour.

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You’re taking NATO at face value while ignoring the actions taken underground to pry apart any countries who aren’t friendly to the west. Why would the west need to fund operations like this if it was such a voluntary and clearly beneficial relationship?: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

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And you are acting like the actions taken by aggressive nations dont factor into this at all. Russia annexed Crimea, is it any wonder they want some sort of protection.

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5 points

They gotta collectively match the size of Russia to be competitive.

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