Morning Jolt: No, Ukraine Can’t Join NATO Anytime Soon

On the menu today: Both President Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky are in Vilnius, Lithuania, today for the NATO summit. Yesterday, the NATO member countries announced in a communiqué that "Ukraine's future is in NATO," but offered no concrete time frame for the country to join the alliance. This reportedly represents President Biden's preferences and irritated Zelensky, although it's likely that the Ukrainian president's public complaints are somewhat meant to meet his domestic political needs and maximize his leverage. But the editors of National Review, among others, concur. Until the war is won, the issue of Ukraine entering NATO is moot, and if the Ukrainians did formally join NATO during an ongoing shooting war, the resulting alliance and likely invocation of Article Five would work against American interests.

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY July 12 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY July 12 2023 No, Ukraine Can't Join NATO Anytime Soon On the menu today: Both President Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky are in Vilnius, Lithuania, today for the NATO summit. Yesterday, the NATO member countries announced in a communiqué that "Ukraine's future is in NATO," but offered no concrete time frame for the country to join the alliance. This reportedly represents President Biden's preferences and irritated Zelensky, although it's likely that the Ukrainian president's public complaints are somewhat meant to meet his domestic political needs and maximize his leverage. But the editors of National Review, among others, concur. Until the war is won, the issue of Ukraine entering NATO is moot, and if the Ukrainians did formally join NATO during an ongoing shooting war, the resulting alliance and likely invocation of Article Five would work against American interests. No-Go on NATO Those who think National Review is full of a bunch of neoconservative hawks — and globalists, and every other name we get called, and that we're a front for the CIA ...   READ MORE

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