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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is confident that the policy pursued by the West towards Ukraine and Russia in recent years has been a failure. He also noted under what scenario this war would never have started.
According to Johnson, NATO countries have been telling Ukrainians for many years that they are pursuing an “open door” policy, but in At the same time, they signaled to Moscow that our state would never become part of the Alliance. Actually, this led to the fact that on February 24, 2022, Putin decided to launch a large-scale invasion.
“Thanks” to Russia, Ukraine can join NATO
< p>As ironic as it may sound, Johnson noted that Putin's actions dispelled arguments about “the impossibility of Ukraine's membership in NATO.” The former prime minister stated that Ukrainians are now mastering and deploying an insane amount of equipment from the countries of the Alliance and doing it with unsurpassed skill and courage.
Earlier it was said that the Ukrainian population is too divided about NATO membership. Until 2014, you could definitely make a similar argument. Look at the numbers now. According to one recent poll, support for Ukraine's membership in NATO is now stratospheric at 83 percent, he wrote.
At the same time, he noted that the West's 2008 policy of “do not provoke Putin” has not resulted in any what good. Actually, at the Bucharest summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in 2008, Kyiv was supposed to receive a membership action plan, but this did not happen.
Then the Russian dictator, with unconcealed pleasure, declared that he was satisfied with everything. Subsequently, in 2014, he broke into the Crimea and Donbass, and then launched an invasion in 2022.
NATO had enough good phrases about Ukraine's membership that Putin used them in his propaganda and claimed that Russia was in danger of being cordoned off. Yet the reality is that NATO has done nothing to protect Ukraine and has not advanced the cause of Ukraine's membership,” Johnson emphasized. The process of accepting our state into NATO has ended and begun as soon as possible.
Let us recall that the partners have recently decided to transfer tanks to the Armed Forces, creating the so-called “tank coalition”. In particular, we are talking about providing the Ukrainian Armed Forces with American Abrams tanks, German Leopard tanks and British Challenger tanks.
Negotiations are underway to provide our state with F-16 fighters. Obviously, no one has any doubts that in the near future the Air Force will receive aviation.
