The biggest obstacle along Ukraine's path to NATO no longer appears to be Russia or Vladimir Putin. It’s the White House, which is stalling Ukraine’s effort to join
y some measures, Ukraine looks closer than ever to joining NATO. Support for its membership, both inside Ukraine and within the alliance, is at its strongest ahead of this week’s, while Ukraine’s war-tested military has demonstrated on the battlefield that it can use NATO weapons and tactics effectively. The biggest obstacle along its path to NATO no longer appears to be Russia or Vladimir Putin. It’s the White House, which is stalling Ukraine’s effort to join.
At their landmark summit in 2008, held in Bucharest, Romania, the leaders of NATO declared that both Ukraine and Georgia would join one day, but they gave no timeline and offered no specific plan for keeping that promise. “NATO’s non-decision on their membership was the worst possible outcome,” the Harvard historian Serhiy Plokhy writes in his new book,It angered the Kremlin without offering any protection to Ukraine and Georgia.
Much the same trend has played out inside the alliance. Polls taken in May across five of NATO’s leading member statesmost people support formally inviting Ukraine to join the alliance despite the ongoing war: 70% in the U.S., 56% in France, 55% in the Netherlands, 53% in Italy and 50% in Germany. Some of those supporting the invitation favored delaying Ukraine’s actual accession until after the war ends.
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