Quote (Neptunus @ Apr 17 2023 07:25pm)
The pictures happened after the invasion. I referred to events prior to the invasion.
I fully agree with what was said in the link by NATO. It does welcome countries that want to join it. Nothing controversial about it. But you didnt answer my questions. In real life, politics is not reduced to what is written behind one link, theres many factors.
Answer the ones i posted specifically (2 simple questions):
1) why invade Ukraine when its NATO aspirations have been halted already in 2014, Russia got Crimea, and NATO clearly states it doesnt accept applications during conflicts (Crimea/Donbass)?
2) ok, Russia takes Crimea and Donbass. Wouldnt it be fair to accept that NATO gets the rest? I mean, since we play the equivalence game, we have to acknowledge NATO security concerns with the same consideration as the Russian ones, as per your arguments, no?
I posted the official NATO source from 2008. We all know what happened after that (Euromaidan in 2014 followed by the annexation of Crimea and war against separatists in the East).
The pictures are 100% relevant, NATO decided to double down and Stoltenberg insists that Ukraine will become a NATO member which contradicts what you claimed in the post I quoted namely:
Quote (Neptunus @ Apr 17 2023 05:46pm)
Russia already stopped NATO expansion with those actions.
So in this post you're still wrong, NATO still wants Ukraine for geo-political reasons and NATO sees winning the war as step one in that process as shown in the first picture I posted:

If NATO succeeds (Ukraine wins) then Ukraine can become a member which is what NATO wants, refer to second picture:

This is all factual and correct, NATO wants Ukraine to become a member which is why NATO and the combined West have sent Ukraine a shit ton of military aid and war funds, intelligence, military training and so on.
I suggest you consider all that and try again.