 Views & Opinions |
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As NATO leaders gather to mark the alliance's 75th anniversary, they must resist "repeating the tired mantra that we will help Ukraine 'for as long as it takes,'" writes the Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon. "That is not a strategy." |
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The momentum in the war is on Russia's side, O'Hanlon writes, and the Biden administration has shown "no clarity at all on where we are now heading." O'Hanlon believes NATO should ensure Ukraine's survival and sovereignty. Otherwise, "NATO territory might have been next in the sights of the Russian dictator." That said, "it is not so obvious that Western security hinges on Ukraine reclaiming the 18 percent of its original (pre-2014) territory that Russia currently holds." O'Hanlon thinks the best strategy is to give Ukraine almost all that it asks for into 2025, allow politics in Europe and the U.S. to "settle a bit" and then reassess the situation. Another key piece to this is Ukraine's security anchor to the West. Most favor NATO membership for Ukraine, but O'Hanlon thinks that might be untenable. Instead, O'Hanlon proposes an entirely new security arrangement. The key is to be realistic about how the war will end and what can be achieved. "NATO leaders owe increasingly skeptical constituents a better answer to David Petraeus's famous question about Iraq: 'Tell me how this ends.'" Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, July 9. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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