NARRATIVE – At the same time as it re-engages in the Middle East, America is losing interest in the Ukrainian issue, which it would like to cede to the Europeans. But the Old Continent is slow to prepare for this new challenge.
Can free and democratic Ukraine have a future without NATO? This serious issue, which kyiv’s allies have continually pushed back, was at the heart of the meeting of Alliance defense ministers on Thursday. The invitation to NATO is at the top of the “victory plan” presented in Brussels by Volodymyr Zelensky. The period between the American election and the new president taking office in January could, according to kyiv, offer a “ opportunity » to Joe Biden. “ He has a chance to make history by transmitting to Ukraine, as a legacy, an invitation to join NATO. This would correct the mistakes of past Democratic Administrations that contributed to Ukraine’s denuclearization », Explains Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center think tank.
The rapprochement between Ukraine and the Atlantic Alliance is considered essential by the Ukrainians. In difficulty on the eastern front, they…
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