The European Union and NATO are involved in a competition with Russia that they could lose. That competition comprises three main strands, each of which reveals the West’s lack of readiness for a long, drawn-out struggle with Moscow.
Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO, YES Special meeting in Kyiv on February 24th, 2024 “Two Years - Stay in the Fight”
«The future of Ukraine is in NATO. It is a matter of when not if.»