Ahead of this week's NATO summit in Lithuania, President Joe Biden offered comments on Ukraine's push to join NATO as its war with Russia continues. See potential biases and similarities in reports from townhallcom, nytimes and newsweek:
if Ukraine should be given NATO membership, Biden said,"I don't think it's ready for membership in NATO." He added,"I don't think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war. For example, if you did that, then, you know, and I mean what I say, we're determined to commit every inch of territory that is NATO territory as a commitment that we've all made no matter what.
So I think we have to lay out a path for the rational path for Russia, for -- excuse me, for Ukraine, to be able to qualify to get into NATO."Biden recently approved shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine, weapons that are banned by many other nations. Those shipments and Ukraine's NATO pleas will be a focus at the July 11-12 summit.Many sources across the spectrum framed Biden's remarks as a denial of Ukraine's request.
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