“A ‘bridge to NATO’ seems to be the phrase du jour for Ukraine membership, but I see that as a semiserious or unserious proposal … [that] shows once again how the alliance is engaged in a creeping process towards membership,” says Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
“We’re seeing a pattern where the alliance says, ‘Let countries in, expand, and we’ll consider the costs later,’” he says. Seeing no NATO country as willing to enter the war to fight on Ukraine’s side against Russia, Mr. Wertheim says it is dishonest to dangle NATO membership, which would commit alliance members to defending Ukraine.
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