Nato leaders are expected to make a one-year, €40bn pledge of support for Ukraine this week, as the alliance’s most important members are engulfed in domestic political turmoil that limits their capacity to commit more long-term resources to Ukraine in its defence against Russia.
The summit starting on Tuesday in Washington comes on the heels of a snap election in France, where talks over a new government are expected to be complex and where the Ukraine-sceptic far right has become a major political force, and as Joe Biden faces pressure to quit the US presidential race against Donald Trump.
In Germany, the coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz remains unpopular and fragile.
These tectonic shifts have undermined Nato’s efforts to cast the alliance’s 75th anniversary as a show of unwavering support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Instead the event risks shining a light on the fragility of continued western aid for Kyiv.
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It means more deaths and bloodshed for all sides. It’s delusional for anyone to think money and weapons can bring peace. The last two years and half has been proof.
@9QSG6CYLibertarian2yrs2Y
NATO should provide Russia with an ultimatum that states they pull out of Ukraine including Crimea or NATO will add Ukraine to NATO and enact article 13.
They are just buying Ukraine with the money which anyway mostly comes back to their defence companies.
One day they will agree to ceasefire. Then Russia and NATO will devide Ukraine between them.
@ThrusheKayleeRepublican2yrs2Y
Never stop supporting Ukraine - this is a good message.
@FilibusterPeteForward2yrs2Y
Ukraine is going to be a Trojan horse for the West.
Do they know where the money really goes? Besides the military -industirial sector.
A large amount of money is unaccounted for, but it is something that is forbidden to talk or write about.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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