WTH Did Biden Blow It on NATO and Ukraine? Ambassador Kurt Volker Explains

Last week at the NATO summit in Lithuania, the world watched as
Ukraine was denied an actionable plan for membership in the
alliance. It was almost a rinse and repeat from 2008, when
Ukraine and Georgia pushed for membership, and were offered a
similarly passive statement – save for one major exception:
today, Ukraine is actively fighting for its life. In fact,
Ukraine is doing NATO’s job for it: defending Europe, upholding
sovereignty, and keeping Russia’s imperialist ambitions at bay.
And, notwithstanding the ire of National Security Adviser Jake
Sullivan – who has labeled Ukraine ungrateful -- nobody (much
less Zelensky) is arguing for membership during a hot war.
Ukrainians want a secure plan forward, not a vague and gauzy set
of commitments that amount to “maybe.” A roadmap is not actually
hard to formulate (Marc and former Deputy Secretary of State
Steve Biegun wrote one for Washington Post) so what is the
hold-up? Are we really going to let Putin bully 31 (soon to be
32) countries into icing out a staunch ally?


Ambassador Kurt Volker is the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, the
former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine. He's now a
distinguished fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis
and a founding partner of the American University in Kyiv.


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