Biden assures that Ukraine’s entry into NATO today would start World War III

2023-07-13 19:13:30

After the NATO summit held this week in Lithuania, there was no longer any doubt, but, just in case, the President of The United States has reiterated that Ukraine will not be able to join the Atlantic Alliance while still in war with Russia. “No one can join NATO while it is at war because that would guarantee that we are also at war and that the war has begun. Third World war”, he said this Thursday Joe Biden during his official visit to Helsinki. The American leader has stressed, however, that the future integration of the Slavic country is beyond any doubt, although it will materialize when conditions allow it. Meanwhile, he celebrated the G7 commitment for its member countries to negotiate bilateral agreements with kyiv to provide it with security guarantees.

That was one of the aspects that led the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, to celebrate the results of the conclave in Vilnius after a stormy start in which he complained about the lack of an iformal invitation to Ukraine o to absence of a calendar for their integration. But other commitments ended up meeting his expectations. Since the start-up of the Ukraine-NATO Councilnew military aid packages or medium-term support from the Alliance for modernize the defense industry ukrainian. “We understand that some are afraid to talk about our integration now because nobody wants to have a world war,” Zelinski said Wednesday from the Lithuanian capital.

From there Biden traveled to Helsinki, where he applauded the Finland’s entry into NATO and assumed that the Sweden it will materialize very soon after Türkiye finally lifted its objections. “We have shown the world that the Alliance is closer than ever and it will soon have 32 members after the agreement reached with Turkey,” he said at a press conference with the Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö. Despite the recent uprising in Russia of Wagner’s mercenaries, which has highlighted the internal tensions in the Kremlin over the management of the war, Biden denied that it is a real possibility that Vladimir Putin can resort to nuclear weapons in a gesture of despair.

Putin holds the key to end the war

“Putin has already lost the war and has a real problem: how to get out of it,” said the Democratic leader. “He can end the war tomorrow but any agreement to end it will depend on the decisions he makes. What is clear is that he has no no chance to win in Ukraine,” he added optimistically. The truth is that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is having real difficulty breaking the russian defensesalthough at the same time the contest is turning out strategically disastrous for Russiaas demonstrated, among other things, by the rapprochement of NATO to its borders with the entry of Finland.

Biden also argued that Moscow will not be able to keep the conflict in Ukraine alive forever. “On the one hand, he does not have the resources and capabilities to do it and, on the other, there will come a time when Putin will conclude that politically or economically it has ceased to make sense for his interests,” he explained during the appearance. “My hope is that the Ukrainian offensive will progress enough to force a negotiated agreement”, Biden stressed.