With war looming, the issue of NATO membership has emerged as a complex one for President Biden and his European allies.
, for example, war would be all but assured because those states fall under NATO obligations.
Americans weary with foreign wars want Biden to simply tell Ukraine that the road is blocked entirely. “Biden can very easily prevent a war with Russia by guaranteeing that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO,” Of course, pressuring Ukraine to drop its NATO aspirations would be a fraught proposition. Biden has described the current geopolitical moment as one in which democratic governance is struggling against the rise of autocracy. Few world leaders represent autocratic rule more than Putin, while Ukrainians’ thirst for democracy has been plain for more than a decade.
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