The administration of incumbent US leader Joe Biden has considered the possibility of inviting Ukraine to NATO after Republican Donald Trump wins the presidential election. This was reported by Bloomberg on 23 November.
‘The Biden administration also considered the possibility of publicly calling for a formal invitation [Kiev] to NATO, but decided not to do so, given the low probability of success in the short term,’ the publication said.
As the authors of the material note, ‘instead, a number of bilateral security agreements will be developed to provide Kiev with guarantees.’
In addition, according to the agency, after Trump’s victory in the elections, the White House and the Pentagon are trying to use $9 billion allocated by Congress to support Ukraine. In turn, Trump and his closest advisers have expressed doubts about the tens of billions of dollars promised to the Ukrainian side, Gazeta.Ru adds.
Earlier, on 21 November, the director of the Centre for European Information, Nikolay Topornin, told Izvestia that a number of NATO member states were wary of giving membership to Ukraine. The idea of Kiev joining the North Atlantic alliance is currently not supported by such states as the USA, Germany and France.
