Only NATO membership will protect Ukraine: there is not enough guarantees and weapons - Hoysen

According to Christophe Hoisgen's Security Chairman of the Munich Conference, Israeli, South Korean and other models are not suitable for Ukraine. Israel has nuclear weapons, and in South Korea there is an American military contingent. Christoph Hosgenic, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, expressed doubts about the security guarantees that NATO promised Ukraine. About it reports Bloomberg. "NATO is the most successful defensive organization in history.

No one has attacked NATO," he said, adding that Ukraine is coming out of his experience of war with Russia and understands that guarantees and weapons provided are not enough, and "wants to be under this umbrella. " He also added that Germany has changed its security policy, began to actively supply weapons to Ukraine, because "the only language that Vladimir Putin understands is the language of force. " "When I hear about security guarantees, I am very skeptical.

If you remember 1994, when there was a Budapest Memorandum: the guarantees provided to Ukraine assumed that if they refuse nuclear weapons, they are guaranteed national security, sovereignty, territorial integrity - and see what happened. Therefore, security guarantees are not the best, "he said. When asked about various safety models, including "Israeli" and "South Korean", Christoph Hosgen said: "Israel owns nuclear weapons, in South Korea a American contingent is an inappropriate comparison.

The only guarantee [security for Ukraine] is NATO membership," he added. "The task of Zelensky is to protect his people. He realizes that he needs allies, and sometimes he has to pretend that everything is well, and at the same time in the depths of his soul still remain dissatisfied," Hoisgen explained.

According to him, now it is necessary to quickly supply weapons to be successful, the expert said, explaining that with a successful counter -offensive, the situation in Ukraine will be completely different - then it will be possible to speak with Putin from the standpoint of force. According to Hosgen, in Vilnius he sounded "not the message we would like to hear. " I would like less disconnection, but in the end there will be more weapons on the battlefield.

At the same time, Hoysen does not consider the summit, he noted that the parties had different expectations. The essence of the declared guarantees, he said, is reduced to the supply of more weapons: tanks, rockets (France promised long -range missiles, for example). Recall that the NSDC explained the words of the head of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom Ben Wallace that the "West is not Amazon".