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If NATO means fewer Ukrainians in graves, why wouldn’t Kyiv pursue membership?
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Russia’s War Won’t Kill Ukraine’s NATO Dreams—It’s Fueling Them -
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37602652
If NATO means fewer Ukrainians in graves, why wouldn’t Kyiv pursue membership?
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On June 22, Donald Trump concluded his announcement of the Iran bombings with a grotesque flourish: “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE.” [...] Earlier, Vladimir Putin claimed his so-called “Special Military Operation” aimed to “liberate” Ukraine from “Nazis.” The victims, of course, see through the lie. In Bucha, a city where Russian troops committed unspeakable atrocities, one woman told me, her voice laced with bitter irony: “Yes, the Russians liberated me. From my job. My home. My car.”
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It also never escapes me how little ordinary lives matter when nations decide to wage war or when warlords and autocrats struggle for power. Normal people —those who dream, work, and love just as I do—are reduced to abstract casualties, their suffering buried beneath headlines dominated by jingoistic frenzy and geopolitical posturing.