Doug Bandow
Someone needs to explain the meaning of “no” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He wants NATO to induct his nation and seems to on a mission to get it.
Ukraine Is Desperate for NATO Membership: It Won’t Ever Happen
“An invitation for Ukraine to join Nato is a necessary thing for our survival,” he said in December.
Last month he offered to yield his office if doing so would win alliance approval. After his clash with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Zelensky declared: “If we cannot be accepted to NATO, we need some clear structure of security guarantees from our allies in the U.S.”
Trump said no. Nor is he alone. President Joe Biden said no. President Barack Obama said no. The only president who advocated bringing Ukraine into NATO was George W. Bush, whose reckless foreign policy caused thousands of American military and hundreds of thousands of foreign civilian deaths in the Middle East and South Asia. The transatlantic alliance’s resulting promise to include Kyiv, made at Bush’s behest at the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit, was an essential factor in Moscow’s decision for war nearly 14 years later.
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