"Ukraine’s Most Plausible Security Guarantee Will Not Come from the U.S."
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Even if the president’s mind were not made up (it is), this U.S. posture is consistent with longstanding policy and has a bipartisan pedigree. President Joe Biden also showed no interest in offering Ukraine a security guarantee. His team machinated behind the scenes to keep such conversations from moving too far at NATO convenings. (In its final months, the Biden administration floated a proposal to extend a hollow “invitation” to Ukraine to join the alliance at an unspecified future date, with the idea that doing so would allow Zelenskyy to signal the Ukrainian public that he had secured their future, while allowing NATO to avoid an actual commitment.)
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[There is nothing to gain from] any continued efforts to extract U.S. guarantees in any form. Not only would this approach fail, but it would also feed a corrosive right-wing “MAGA” narrative that Washington’s partners are trying to drag the U.S. into World War III.
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(This is a bit old, March 7)
