The NATO conferees realized that Russia is going to win its war with Ukraine, and NATO membership for that beleaguered country would only make a bad situation worse. From Scott Ritter at sputnikglobe.com:
© AP Photo / Pavel Golovkin
Back in 1984, Wendy’s (an American fast-food chain) released an advertisement starring an elderly actress named Clara Peller. The premise of the ad had Peller ordering a hamburger from an unnamed competitor, only to receive a very large bun containing a very small beef patty on the inside.
Upon examining the burger, Peller looks up in exasperation, and proclaims “Where’s the beef?”
In the aftermath of the Vilnius-hosted NATO Summit, a two-day affair spanning July 11-12, one cannot help but feel that the spirit of Clara Peller was channeled into the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, as he pored over the results of the event, and contrasted them with the expectations that existed going into the summit. I don’t know how to say “Where’s the beef” in Ukrainian, but something like that phrase had to be coursing through the mind of the Ukrainian President as he examined the big “nothing burger” that NATO had delivered up for him.
The Vilnius Summit was intended to showcase the alliance’s unity and resolve in the face of the challenges presented by Russia and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. There had been a great deal of discussion prior to the summit about the prospects of Ukrainian membership in NATO. It was understood by all parties that, while the conflict between Ukraine and Russia remained in an active phase, Ukrainian membership was impossible, if for no other reason that, under Article 5 of the NATO charter, NATO would immediately find itself in a war with Russia which had a good chance of going nuclear.
Where’s the WWIII is what Zilbert said?
BTW-Why was dear leader Brandon not at the big shindig?
The most popular preezy of the steezy evarz with 81 million votes should put in an appearance for the good of the hive collective.