NATO and Ukraine leaders culpability
1 May 2022 By Abiodun Giwa
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine
It is suitable to blame Russia's Vladimir Putin alone for atrocities committed by his country in Ukraine. But is accusing the Russian leader and exonerating NATO and Ukrainian leaders for failure to prepare Ukraine for this war appropriate? Would not an early readiness by Ukraine against invaders have helped it to fence off the magnitude of the Russian attack? The world cannot forget the 2014 attack on Ukraine by Russia and the seizure of a part of the country called Crimea. Russia achieved not all its aim against its neighbor. Subsequently, it prepared for another invasion. Did NATO and Ukraine leaders realize this and prepare Ukraine to defend its territorial integrity?
There is absolutely nothing to show that Ukraine was ready for war in ammunition possession for the attack, defense, and offensive. Instead, the country waited and depended solely on NATO countries for support and protection. Does Ukraine not have a budget from 2014 to 2022? How much of its budget was devoted to the country's defense?
Ukraine does not belong to the list of countries with the highest military spending in 2021. And not in the first 15 nations. According to statista.com, the United States spent $801 billion. Russia spent $65 billion, and Israel spent $24.3 billion as the last on the list of the first 15. Should not Ukraine have spent more than whatever it had paid and belong to the list of 15, given the problem with Russia?
Russia would have walked over the country without assistance from NATO countries that have supplied munitions and undertaken the training of Ukrainian forces to use these instruments of war. It was shocking to see Ukraine's forces rushed into exercise soon after the current invasion. It does not show NATO and Ukraine leaders as proactive. They are rather reactive and poor in managing the problem that Russia poses to Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy is always asking for more and more supplies, becoming an Oliver Twist. Consequently, the sight of destruction in Ukraine pushes people to ask whether the country has no defense system against flying missiles from Russia, allowing the invaders to achieve the proportion of destruction against Ukraine. Ukraine lacks a manifest plan of defending the country against external invasion. The push back against the Russians at Kyiv was possible by supplies from NATO countries amid the conflict.
The invaders had already surrounded the city and what remained was a push inside. Russia's fortune changed with more and more munitions pouring into Ukraine from various NATO countries with such publicity like every country working to earn a badge. NATO requires to be proactive, and Ukraine's leaders need to spend the country's money on essential requirements like arming the armed forces for defense.
President Donald Trump, as a president, whipped these countries into order on the need to pay their dues and not leave everything to the United States. NATO members should not bring the shoddy attitude of not paying their rights into the organization's coffer into managing a crisis capable of throwing the world into the conflagration.
Putin or any leader can use NATO countries' reactionary attitude in shipping armaments to Ukraine in the middle of a war showing the failure of diplomacy. Done with such an announcement, like the event in Ukraine is a beach party. Ukraine should have been ready to defend itself by working with its allies before the war.
There is absolutely nothing to show that Ukraine was ready for war in ammunition possession for the attack, defense, and offensive. Instead, the country waited and depended solely on NATO countries for support and protection. Does Ukraine not have a budget from 2014 to 2022? How much of its budget was devoted to the country's defense?
Ukraine does not belong to the list of countries with the highest military spending in 2021. And not in the first 15 nations. According to statista.com, the United States spent $801 billion. Russia spent $65 billion, and Israel spent $24.3 billion as the last on the list of the first 15. Should not Ukraine have spent more than whatever it had paid and belong to the list of 15, given the problem with Russia?
Russia would have walked over the country without assistance from NATO countries that have supplied munitions and undertaken the training of Ukrainian forces to use these instruments of war. It was shocking to see Ukraine's forces rushed into exercise soon after the current invasion. It does not show NATO and Ukraine leaders as proactive. They are rather reactive and poor in managing the problem that Russia poses to Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy is always asking for more and more supplies, becoming an Oliver Twist. Consequently, the sight of destruction in Ukraine pushes people to ask whether the country has no defense system against flying missiles from Russia, allowing the invaders to achieve the proportion of destruction against Ukraine. Ukraine lacks a manifest plan of defending the country against external invasion. The push back against the Russians at Kyiv was possible by supplies from NATO countries amid the conflict.
The invaders had already surrounded the city and what remained was a push inside. Russia's fortune changed with more and more munitions pouring into Ukraine from various NATO countries with such publicity like every country working to earn a badge. NATO requires to be proactive, and Ukraine's leaders need to spend the country's money on essential requirements like arming the armed forces for defense.
President Donald Trump, as a president, whipped these countries into order on the need to pay their dues and not leave everything to the United States. NATO members should not bring the shoddy attitude of not paying their rights into the organization's coffer into managing a crisis capable of throwing the world into the conflagration.
Putin or any leader can use NATO countries' reactionary attitude in shipping armaments to Ukraine in the middle of a war showing the failure of diplomacy. Done with such an announcement, like the event in Ukraine is a beach party. Ukraine should have been ready to defend itself by working with its allies before the war.
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