Ukraine NATO membership contingent on pursuing a protracted war
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said that Ukraine cannot join NATO until their conflict with Russia is over, an assertion which has many wondering whether Ukraine's membership is contingent on pursuing a protracted war.
The alliance appears to be making certain that the war will continue, with NATO military spending having been increased by over 8% this year.
This is the biggest increase in decades and the ninth consecutive year of increases in our defense spending.
So, European Allies and Canada, will have invested over 450 billion extra US dollars since we agreed our defense investment pledge in 2014.
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
Since 2010, the European taxpayers have seen their social safety net so gutted under economically far right austerity demands that there's no money left for social funding.
In the United States many say that taxpayer money is urgently needed at home to fix economic inequality, aging infrastructure, and a lack of public services.
In Chicago we have a lot of disinvested communities that for them to pick their heads out of their day to day problems, the things afflicting them, and say 'let's go wage war elsewhere'.
I'm not sure they would say such things but, like we said, generations of disinvestment and oppression on the west side would probably push someone over there to maybe not being so keen about sending billions abroad and then keeping them at home.
University Student
If they would take that 100 billion dollars and invest it in things here in the United States that were working for people, instead of lining big businesses pockets, then I'd be all for it.
But you know, and I know, that is not how the United States works.
Chicago Housewife
Opinion polls show that just 40% of Americans, mostly Republicans, think that the US is providing too much aid to Ukraine.
It is a lot of money. Absolutely! But I do believe that propagating US interests around the world and not showing weakness in this moment is is probably a priority. I think in the long term it will offer some benefits.
So I do think it is something I do support, especially being Polish myself, being from Eastern Europe.
Young Chicago Resident
The money for Ukraine comes despite a disastrous anti Russia sanctions campaign, which has backfired into the worst Western inflation in 50 years.
If Ukraine can't join NATO until after the conflict is over, then that means Western leaders want to spend taxpayers' money on Ukraine, but without doing any of the actual fighting.
However, the massive military spending increases the chances of things spiraling out of control and into a larger war.
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