Membership talks cannot progress until the former Soviet state cleans up, a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky
  • DEAD_YUCKY [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    74·
    3 days ago

    Membership talks cannot progress until the former Soviet state cleans up, a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky

    LOVE THE SPRINKLING IN OF ‘SOVIET’ HERE AS IF THE CORRUPTION COMES FROM ITS SOCIALIST PAST

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      I’m sure that is how it was intended, same for the sentence:

      Ukraine has suffered from corruption, particularly in its armed forces, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

      But the way I read it and I think the way those of us who actually know about what went down after the dissolution of the USSR, people who know what capitalism is, read it as “immediately after capitalists took control, corruption inevitably became rampant.” In other words, the truth of the matter.

  • porcupine@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    61·
    3 days ago

    When the Ukrainian regime surrenders and the imperial debt repayments obliterate any of the country’s remaining economic potential, every regular Ukrainian that immigrates further toward the imperial core looking for work is just going to be spat on and called a dirty Russian by all the same people flying Ukraine flags outside their houses today.

  • Skeleton_Erisma [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    3 days ago

    Azov compadres eat pizza with blinken

    Hoard the money received by America

    Give their conscripts clapped out 80s era tanks and border barriers made of oatmeal

    Sell a bunch of pathetic tchotchkes

    Watch your people suffer in rolling blackouts while you (presumably) sit somewhere comfortable with consistent electricity

    Can’t joint SHITO because you’re too corrupt even for them

    Blackrock is also taking your shit

    Grift was fun while it lasted huh? I really wanna hear what the NATO left has to say about this, but I’m also suffering a summer depression atm so maybe I’ll pass.

  • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    47·
    3 days ago

    This is basically the definition of cumstering and dumpstering but on the nation state level

    Many such examples. See also, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania. Surely, any day now… the EU will let them in. Any…day… surely also Kosovo will be a fully legitimate state and also allowed in to the EU… standing by… 25 years later any day, guys!

  • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    It sucks this was totally unforeseeable and no one could have done anything to prevent Ukrainian men from being put in the meat grinder solely for imperial interests

    Oh well

  • Kieselguhr [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    The article:

    Ukraine will be told it is currently too corrupt to join Nato, in a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky. The alliance will request “additional steps” from Kyiv before membership talks progress, a senior official in the US State Department said. The position will be set out in writing in the Nato communique to be signed at the alliance’s annual summit on July 9.

    “We have to step back and applaud everything that Ukraine has done in the name of reforms over the last two-plus years,” the official told The Telegraph. “As they continue to make those reforms, we want to commend them, we want to talk about additional steps that need to be taken, particularly in the area of anti-corruption. It is a priority for many of us around the table,” the source added. x Russia blamed for jamming GPS signals to British military jets I Ukraine: The Latest, podcast Mr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, is pushing for swift Nato membership after the war ends to protect from future invasion. It would compel the US and Europe to come to the defence of Kyiv in the event of any Russian attack.

    But corruption has been a sticking point in recent talks between Nato member states over whether to offer Ukraine a concrete timetable for joining the Western military alliance. The Telegraph recently revealed that the US is blocking British and European efforts to put in writing an “irreversible” path towards Nato membership for Ukraine. Ukraine has suffered from corruption, particularly in its armed forces, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Mr Zelensky has sacked military chiefs as part of an effort to curb the problem, especially in the area of defence procurement.

    Joe Biden raised “significant corruption” in an interview with Time magazine this year, during which he ruled out supporting the “Nato-isation of Ukraine”. Nato diplomats and officials have given Ukraine a list of reforms it will be expected to carry out before its membership ambitions can be realised, a US defence official said. “That’s something Nato has been doing quietly under the radar that helps them get closer to membership,” the source added.

    Mr Zelensky, who is attending the summit in Washington, is likely to be offered a promise of a “well-lit bridge” to Nato membership, a term preferred by the US. Nato allies still disagree over whether they should upgrade the statement they made last year at their summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, to make their offer to Kyiv “irreversible”. At this year’s meeting, allies are expected to offer further air defence systems to meet Ukraine’s growing needs, including US Patriots, after Washington agreed to prioritise deliveries of its flagship system to Kyiv.

    Despite the lack of Nato promises, almost 20 countries have signed bilateral security agreements with Ukraine. They will come together to celebrate those new pacts in a joint statement at the Nato summit The summit is likely to be the first major international event for Sir Keir Starmer if he is elected as prime minister. Writing in The Telegraph on Wednesday, Lord Cameron urged Labour to commit to spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence.

    • Kieselguhr [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      Mr Zelensky, who is attending the summit in Washington, is likely to be offered a promise of a “well-lit bridge” to Nato membership, a term preferred by the US.

      At this year’s meeting, allies are expected to offer further air defence systems to meet Ukraine’s growing needs, including US Patriots, after Washington agreed to prioritise deliveries of its flagship system to Kyiv.

      The Telegraph recently revealed that the US is blocking British and European efforts to put in writing an “irreversible” path towards Nato membership for Ukraine. Ukraine has suffered from corruption, particularly in its armed forces, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Mr Zelensky has sacked military chiefs as part of an effort to curb the problem, especially in the area of defence procurement.

      he-admit-it

      So give me a ballpark %, how much of the billions sent by the west went down the corruption drain?

      Despite the lack of Nato promises, almost 20 countries have signed bilateral security agreements with Ukraine.

      I swear everyone is a sucker in this story, except American hegemony and the US military-industrial complex, and maybe Ukrainian oligarchs who got the share of the pie.