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Originally Posted by hbloms
And let the Union do things their own way? Amen brother  |
Dont bother thinking about that. The US is far too afraid about a Union that would be forced to develop robust military capabilities itself. After all it could make independent military decisions then with a certain leverage. No, I think the US prefers the NATO over that.
Regarding the original point of this thread. The reason why the EU does not see a scenario for the Ukraine to join has as most important reason one of internal nature. The EU struggles with the current enlargement and before the reform treaty is not really fix it won't set any new further steps in the enlargement. It has already enough to do with the current candidates and the problems at the Balkan region.
The EU has to stabilize internally first before it can dare thinking about an Ukraine joining. Apart from that, what says the east of that country to such a project? As far as I know the Ukraine is deeply divided on that issue itself. The EU is not quite eager on a new member where the half of it sees the EU perhaps as enemy.