We need to send a clear message to the Ukrainians that NATO membership is possible and desirable
Media mentions – NATO
Essentially everyone’s on board on the notion that membership for Ukraine is now a reasonable thing to achieve at some point
The NATO-Ukraine Council is a lot more important than people think, because a lot of work can be done
Essentially, everyone agrees that Ukraine’s accession is something that can reasonably be achieved at some point in the future
If there is no sustained commitment to stay at 2 percent or above, the plans will be hard to implement
If there is no sustained commitment to stay at 2 percent or above, the plans will be hard to implement
Puglierin and Shapiro recall the psychodrama to which Berlin’s decision to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to kyiv gave rise
Jeremy Shapiro and Jana Puglierin comment about the EU-US relationship
Many NATO countries will view the outcome of the summit as a test of Turkey’s and Hungary’s commitment to the alliance
The ability of the Vilnius summit to deliver or, at the very least, offer significant progress on these four priorities will be a credibility test for the Alliance
NATO’s new vitality belies a larger problem: the West’s failure to convince the rest of the world that it also has a stake in Ukraine’s defense is emblematic of a broader shift