Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s complaint about the slow pace of a NATO invitation for his country annoyed the U.S. and other allies.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s exasperated complaint about the slow pace of an invitation for his country to join NATO, delivered as the annual NATO summit began in Vilnius, Lithuania, may have actually moved the processclaimed this week, citing unnamed sources.
Zelensky did express gratitude to the U.K. for “decisions taken to provide our country with long-term financial support” soon after Wallace criticized him, buton Thursday, the Biden White House was so miffed by Zelensky’s complaints that it “considered scaling back the ‘invitation’ for Kyiv to join” NATO.that “Ukraine’s future is in NATO” and promise that Kyiv will be invited at some undetermined point in the future, which is precisely the approach that made Zelensky angry.
United States officials suggested “watering down” or even eliminating the murky “we will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance when allies agree and conditions are met” line. The word “invitation” was reportedly on the chopping block for a while, but after some “frantic negotiations” among NATO diplomats, the alliance decided to stick with its original wording.
“The summit outcome reflects the basic reality that NATO is a U.S. security commitment to, as the strongest military power in the world, defend other eligible countries. Hence NATO will always only move at the speed of Washington, which right now is fixated on China in the long run,” German Marshall fund senior fellow Jaco Kirkegaard told CNBC.
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