Flag of Ukraine. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 27The United States should make concessions to Russia over Ukraine and Georgia, retired U.S. Lieutenant General Dale Daly wrote in a National Interest article co-authored with military consultant James Farwell. According to the military commander, Washington should assure Moscow that these two states will not become members of NATO.
"These countries do not have the right to join NATO themselves, their membership is possible only by invitation. It is not necessary for Western security interests that they become members of the alliance. The West does not need to give them ambiguous hints to make Russia feel that relations with them are tantamount to membership in the bloc,” Daley believes.
The publication says that Ukraine should follow the path of Austria, which received a neutral status after the Second World War.
NATO Secretary General has lost touch with reality, Lavrov said»Ukraine could adopt a status similar to that of Austria. Austria is a democracy that cooperates with all parties and maintains its independence,” the article notes. Such a status would not harm the West, and would also eliminate the threat that Russia expresses fears about, the authors of the article concluded. In 2014, Ukraine abandoned its non-aligned status, and In 2019, the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the Constitution, fixing the course for joining the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance. Former secretary general of the military bloc, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, noted that in order to become a member of the organization, Kiev needs to achieve certain criteria, the implementation of which will take a long time. Earlier, US President Joe Biden said that the prospect of the country's entry into NATO in the near future is small.
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