In this proxy war in Ukraine, Russia and Nato are eyeball to eyeball and Joe Biden just blinked. In conclusion, what’s done is done, so let’s hope the next summit will be more productive. ![]() We are very grateful and we say that a lot. It created a narrative about the lack of gratitude, which is untrue. Then there was Ben Wallace adding insult to injury. Instead, we got the bureaucratic definitions that were arguably worse than those of the 2008 Bucharest summit (a “yearly evaluation programme”? How many years should it take?). As for achieving “Nato standards”, we are already doing our extensive homework regarding the EU candidacy, so with a bit of political will these two processes could have been formally or informally tied together. Nato could have promised to start negotiations as soon as the war is over, which would still be comfortably non-committal negotiations can take time and even produce a negative result, but would be seen as a major step forward in the relationship. What he was asking for was a statement that we will be invited as soon as the victory (or peace deal) is achieved. Volodymyr Zelenskiy has emphasised numerous times that no one in Ukraine is expecting Nato to accept us during the war. ![]() It could have been just that with better diplomacy and coordination.
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