Posted on 03/31/2016 10:28:52 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Ukraine should not be an EU member: Dutch prime minister
Europe March 31, 2016
Ukraine should never become a member of the European Union, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte said in an interview with news website Nu.nl. Speaking a week before a controversial referendum in the Netherlands on the EU’s treaty with Ukraine, Rutte said Ukraine has an important buffer role between the EU and Russia. The Netherlands is against EU membership for Ukraine because ‘we think that Ukraine should have a good relationship with Europe and Russia. And that would not be possible if it was part of the European Union.’ ‘In the long term, Ukraine must develop a stable relationship with Russia,’ he said. ‘Opponents of this treaty say that it is a step towards EU membership. That is not what it is about.’ The referendum, Rutte said, is about a treaty which is of great importance to the Netherlands. It is about ‘stability on the edge of Europe in an unstable world’. The treaty is of great importance ‘and I have great faith in the results.’ At least 30% of the electorate have to vote in the referendum for it to have any legal weight. The referendum is only advisory and the Dutch government has already voted for the treaty.
Read more at DutchNews.nl: Ukraine should not be an EU member: Dutch prime minister
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/ukraine-should-not-be-an-eu-member-dutch-prime-minister/
It would just be another member where we’re paying for their defense.
Trump is right about NATO and we’re paying most everyone’s bill.
that’s great!! England and Clinton sign a pact saying they have Ukrain’s back if only they’d get rid of the nukes. Then everyone sells them up the river.
I know, the pact didn’t call for their defense, but they got suckered and it’s sad.
but let millions of muslims in!!!
like it matters what W Europe says.
They’re one simultaneous nuke attack from terrorists of being irrelevant.
or it will be the slow and painful way of no babies for them and 6 for the muzzies.
The idiots of EU / NATO globalism almost started WW3 over a bunch of Galician Ukrainian hicks with a Nazi fetish. Enough.
I agree they should not join the European Union socialists. All they will get is migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
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There was no pact - it was a memorandum aka a gentleman's understanding. And the EU/USA violated it by getting involved in the internal affairs of the Ukraine by organizing a coup against the legitimate govt there.
so now we just say #### ‘em?
that’ great!!! So you’re saying we ####ed it up but they’re the ones that are #####ed?
go America!! go England!!!
from that point of view, it is a good thing they don’t
forget that annoying “gentleman’s agreement”
what being good for one’s word worth anyway?
The Ukranians didn’t help us at all over the last 25 years, then their left-wingers come crying to Soetoro to help them kill off conservatives. They can go pound sand.
Yes - there was a Fk up and we almost had WW3 over an artificial nation that is split down the middle along cultural lines and EU / NATO integration should never have been attempted. Ukraine is best left as a neutral “Finland” type of country. A buffer state.
“that’s great!! England and Clinton sign a pact saying they have Ukrain’s”
The pact was signed with an entity that went out of existence when it was overthrown in a street putsch. When you have a coup, you don’t get to demand all the things that the legitimate government was owed. You only get obligations and real estate that you can seize by force. That’s the whole concept of how a coup works.
Any European nation that doesn’t want to be over run with Muslim needs to align with Russia.
a coup backed by the Western Countries!!
and then we $#### them!!
at least there’s a huge land mass that putin’s not touching.
we’ve become weasels and that’s a shame.
I don’t want to defend all of Ukraine, but Russia should not go any further into it or we should send military supplies.
a proud man once said “you’re only as good as your word”
I don’t want to go to war over Ukraine but we should have NEVER pushed them to make that deal.
Reagan would NEVER EVER EVER have.
at least what putin has is a very tiny piece. it needs to stay that way.
I respect your posts but you have to admit what Clinton and Britain did was wrong.
and if we helped with the coup, that was twice as wrong to leave them on their own
To me it was sleepwalking into a potential World War akin to sleepwalking into a 1914.
arms delivery. we’ve done that a million times before.
just because Clinton was a sc#mbag, doesn’t mean we should have left them in the lurch
no troops. but real arms.
what Russia has now is the sea and a buffer that they wanted.
what’s where it should end.
poor Ukraine. everyone but them knew not to trust a Clinton.
and now we have another one.
The Dutch remember who shot down the passenger jet.
Ukraine was run by a Soviet puppet, now there is more freedom. They are not Nazi’s, but you are entitled to your opinion. GO TRUMP !
Given the current situation of the EU, better for Ukraine to remain unaligned.
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