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Unstable and heavily armed Ukraine could be dangerous for EU-Media

03 December 2024 14:08 (UTC +04:00)

An unstable and heavily armed Ukraine could be dangerous, APA reports citing Politico.

“How can we arm a country at our borders to its teeth without knowing who will be its future leader and whether it will remain our partner?” one EU diplomat asked.

Ukraine would much prefer to be in NATO or to get solid security guarantees from its allies.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned that supplying Ukraine with weapons, “has the potential for uncontrollable escalation.”

Amid resistance from countries like Germany to speedily granting Ukraine NATO membership, Western diplomats, and even U.S. President Joe Biden, have floated the idea of copying the Israel model. Israel isn’t formally part of a defense alliance like NATO; rather it is a close ally of the U.S. and many European countries, which supply massive amounts of weapons and also provide diplomatic support. Israel has also developed its own world-beating arms industry.

This has the advantage of not tying Ukraine into an alliance that could drag other countries into a war with nuclear-armed Russia.