FP - NATO is Helping Ukraine to Fight—But Not to Win and more... July 11, 2024

 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on before the start of a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council in Washington on July 11. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

NATO is Helping Ukraine to Fight—But Not to Win The 75th annual NATO Summit, which took place in Washington, D.C. this week, has come to a close. Russia’s war in Ukraine dominated the summit, as the alliance unveiled plans to intensify support for Kyiv and offer an “irreversible” path to eventual membership in the defense pact. But, the summit was heavy on promises and light on plans, writes Amy MacKinnon, a national security and intelligence reporter at Foreign Policy. “The summit also highlighted a central tension in Western strategy to support Ukraine: Military aid has played a decisive role in enabling Kyiv to fend off Russian forces, but it has fallen short of enabling it to actually win the war,” she writes. Keep reading

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Can NATO Really Cut Off China? Foreign Policy reporters Lili Pike, Jack Detsch, and Robbie Gramer weigh this question. At the summit, the alliance issued its strongest indictment yet of China’s support for Russia, accusing Beijing of supplying critical materials for Russia’s war machine and signaling that NATO is prepared to impose higher costs on China going forward. China “cannot enable the largest war in Europe in recent history without this negatively impacting its interests and reputation,” the leaders said in the communique. Keep reading

How to Sell NATO To Gen-Z NATO turned 75 this year. More than seven decades of alliance coordination to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges is nothing to sneeze at, but a survey discovered that younger respondents view NATO as less important. “Gen Z is not necessarily buying the assumptions that many of us older, crotchety folks make about the enduring importance of NATO,” writes Kathleen J. McInnis, a senior fellow in the International Security Program and the director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Keep reading

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Does NATO Have a Future? In their column “It's Debatable,” FP columnists Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig weigh this question. “The question of what the future holds in store for NATO remains open: Donald Trump, U.S. defense budget constraints, the rise of China—it’s not at all clear that the United States will remain committed to NATO for the long term,” Ashford writes. Keep reading

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Biden Press Conference Overshadowed End of NATO Summit The president’s remarks on foreign policy became a Rorschach test for allies and experts. By Amy Mackinnon, Robbie Gramer

How to Make the U.S.-Ukraine Security Pact Stick The White House and Congress need to start talking. By Eric Ciaramella

What NATO Gave Ukraine Kyiv didn’t get an invite to join the alliance, but it left the summit with more weapons to fight Russia. By Jack Detsch, Robbie Gramer, Rishi Iyengar

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