{"id":33563,"date":"2018-04-19T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33563"},"modified":"2018-04-19T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:33:15","slug":"ukraines-nato-bid-risks-even-worse-u-s-russia-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33563","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s NATO Bid Risks Even Worse U.S.-Russia Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukraine\u2019s NATO Bid Risks Even Worse U.S.-Russia Ties<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Ukraine has made new moves towards joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which would cross a Russian \u201cred line\u201d and further deteriorate U.S.-Russia relations, argues Will Porter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s been four years since the hectic<\/u><\/a> \u201cEuromaidan\u201d protest movement culminated in a coup that deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Though civil war grinds on in the eastern half of the country, Ukraine has wandered in and out of American news cycles since the dramatic change of government in Kiev.<\/p>\n

But a more recent development has implications that are rarely explored in American media, despite what it could mean for broader U.S. international relations. Ukraine is vying to take its place as NATO\u2019s newest member state, a move that could seriously escalate tensions between Washington and Moscow beyond their current high point<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say that Russia would be, and has been, opposed to NATO membership for Ukraine,\u201d James Carden, former advisor to the State Department\u2019s U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, said in an email exchange.<\/p>\n

Neighboring states such as Ukraine and Georgia, Carden added, \u201care red lines for Russia and we should take them at their word.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Ukraine\u2019s original application to join the alliance came in 2008<\/u><\/a>, subsequent political complications put the issue on the back burner. It wasn\u2019t until 2014 that the Ukrainian parliament voted to end the country\u2019s \u201cnon-aligned\u201d status<\/u><\/a> and renew the push for membership.<\/p>\n

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Poroshenko: Drive towards Nato on Facebook. (Ukrainian Govt. Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In a March Facebook post, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine\u2019s \u201cnext ambition\u201d on its path to membership was to seek a Membership Action Plan (MAP). Countries seeking to join NATO must go through a multi-step process that ensures the prospective member meets the alliance\u2019s various obligations in areas ranging from military spending to law.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine\u2019s NATO Bid Risks Even Worse U.S.-Russia Ties Ukraine has made new moves towards joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which would cross a Russian \u201cred line\u201d and further deteriorate U.S.-Russia relations, argues Will Porter. It\u2019s been four years since the hectic \u201cEuromaidan\u201d protest movement culminated in a coup that deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,553,694,821,827,19863],"class_list":["post-33563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-will-porter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33564,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions\/33564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}