NATO’s final meeting in 2024 showed what all of the people familiar with the matter have known for months and years: Russia’s illegal aggression in Ukraine has not been able to convince NATO to act.
It was able to convince the EU to do so, but not NATO.
I’ve been working with these matters for quite some time and despite publishing two pieces on the need for NATO to accept Ukraine into it for the Washington Times and the Euromaidan Press in April and July respectively as opposed to introducing the Israeli defense model, I see that no amount of advocacy, not just from me obviously but from many, is able to change what simply can’t be changed.
In a situation like this, you need to pivot and make the right decisions. I still believe that NATO membership would be better for Ukraine—unless we have nukes—but if you keep receiving no after no after no after no after no, then I’m sorry, but you can’t play a wicked game of Merriam-Webster synonyms for yet another useless NATO communique.
There’s no need to abandon the path altogether, but let the NO sink in so you mentally stop relying on people and entities who profoundly don’t care about you.
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