This outlook is shared with “realist” analysts, who believe that the war has been provoked by the West and its promises of NATO membership to Ukraine. Together with Germany, Washington continues to stick to the pragmatic position of “non-escalation”. The fact that the conflict is existential and is aimed at the genocidal elimination of Ukraine as a state and nation, is rarely mentioned by the leaders of “old Europe” and the US. The exceptional circumstances that Ukraine and Europe currently exist in are not well understood in the West. This sent a signal of western weakness to Putin, who got the green light to further torment the nation. For example, former President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated that “they laughed at us, then said we were right, and now are not listening again.” At the same time, while the politician Žygimantas Pavilionis declared that the actions of some Allies amounted to “appeasement that normally leads to final defeat”, the former Foreign Minister Petras Vaitiekūnas stated that the West is “encouraging the Kremlin to continue the war”.Īt the summit, Russia was yet again granted an effective veto on Ukraine’s accession. The atmosphere of ever-increasing disagreement on Ukraine’s membership between Allies from the West and East has been aptly commented on by former Lithuanian state leaders and diplomats. The communiqué, issued on Tuesday July 11th, vaguely mentioned that the country will be invited to join the Alliance “when Allies agree and conditions are met”. The 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius, predictably, has not delivered any meaningful outcomes for Ukraine’s membership aspirations. NATO summit decorations for the 2023 summit in July 2023 in Vilnius.
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