As the leaders of the North Alliance Treaty Organization converge to The Hague, in the Netherlands, for today’s Summit, there’s still a side issue creating a lot of confusion: Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte insisted has been flip-flopping on this issue quite repeatedly, from guaranteeing multiple times that Kiev would be part of the Alliance, to falling in line with the Donald J. Trump US administration’s decision that Ukraine will never be part of NATO, lest there be a nuclear war against Russia over that.
Path for Ukraine to come into NATO is IRREVERSIBLE — alliance chief Mark Rutte
Highway to Hell pic.twitter.com/IkLABOoNY7
— Putin News Vladcoin (@runews) June 2, 2025
Mark Rutte,NATO Secretary General:
Earlier:
“Ukraine will be a member of NATO”Today:
“We have not promised Ukraine membership”“Slava Ukraini”
pic.twitter.com/DSHfREFb4t— Richard (@ricwe123) March 13, 2025
But yesterday (23), on the eve of the Netherland’s summit, Rutte again is changing the tone. Some report that he said that ‘there’s an Irreversible Path of Ukraine to Enter NATO’, while the Reuters report only says that Ukraine would remain a vital topic at the summit.
This comes despite Zelensky’s participation having been curtailed, with him barred from the leaders’ meeting aiming to seal an agreement to boost military spending.
Associated Press reported:
“’You will see important language about Ukraine, including connecting the defense spending up to 2035 to Ukraine, and the need for Ukraine to stay in the fight’, Rutte told reporters on the eve of the two-day summit. ‘This is a clear commitment by allies’.”
“But the Ukrainian leader hasn’t yet publicly confirmed he’ll attend a dinner laid on for leaders attending the NATO summit, where his country has had a diplomatic downgrade from previous alliance meetings, even as leaders stress that their militaries need to muscle up to counter the threat of Russia.
It’s a big change since the summit in Washington last year, when the military alliance’s weighty communique included a vow to supply long-term security assistance to Ukraine, and a commitment to back the country ‘on its irreversible path’ to NATO membership.”
Watch below: back in 2023, Trump is already dismissing any talk of Ukraine in NATO.
Pres. Trump announces he will NOT support admitting Ukraine into NATO.
Trump is the peace candidate. pic.twitter.com/wqytYIneNx
— Freedom (@PU28453638) July 25, 2023
Watch: back in February, POTUS again dismisses any possibility of Ukraine in NATO.
President Trump draws a red line in the sand on Ukraine potentially joining NATO.
“Look, it‘s not going to happen. It‘s just not going to happen. That‘s what started this whole thing.” pic.twitter.com/4fvOJLAsPF
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) February 27, 2025
There are meetings scheduled for Zelensky at the summit, but he is not invited to the leaders’ working meeting on Wednesday (25).
“’Of course, the most significant and direct threat facing this alliance remains the Russian Federation’, [Rutte] said. ‘Moscow continues to wage war against Ukraine with the support of North Korea, Iran and China, as well as Belarus’. […] European allies and Canada, ‘will provide over €35 billion of additional security assistance to Ukraine for the year ahead’,” he said. ‘So, in a couple of months, we went from €20 billion to €35 billion. And I think that is great news’.”
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