While it is clear that NATO countries want Ukraine to beat Russia, kyiv has only been provided with the weapons and resources necessary to survive. With this panorama, the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, promises to end the Eastern European conflict.
According to the newspaper we must keep two points in mind, “any agreement must be fair and safe for Ukraine“. Therefore, “it is important to take into account the comments of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky on ending the hot phase of the war in exchange for NATO membership.”
“There is currently much speculation that the United States will ask Europe to provide a security force for Ukraine after the war, in hopes of avoiding direct involvement in future conflicts,” the publication states. But the fact that the US does not intervene in the event of a Russian attack on the alliance’s European territory is “inconceivable“.
Therefore, the article states that Ukraine’s accession to NATO “could be the best option to achieve lasting peace and effective in Eastern Europe.” “The country’s membership would not only serve as a credible deterrent against future Russian aggression, but would also ensure meaningful burden-sharing among NATO members.”
But for this membership to work, the outlet claims that the alliance and Ukraine “They would have to take three key measures“First, the country at war would have to formally declare a commitment not to use force to recover its occupied territories and focus on a long-term diplomatic strategy.” Thus, only territories that do not currently comprise the zones occupied by the Russians would receive the protection of Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Although, if this were to happen, “the alliance would have to modify the article to exclude regions of Ukraine under Russian control“. It would not be the first time that this point of the treaty has been modified: according to the information disseminated by the media, with the accession of Greece and Turkey in 1951, and in 1963, with the independence of Algeria from France.
However, “there are those who do not agree with this process and claim that countries are prohibited from joining NATO until outstanding territorial disputes are resolved“. In documents signed by the alliance in 1995 and cited by the publication, it is argued that “States that have ethnic disputes or external territorial disputes must resolve those disputes by peaceful means. This is a factor to take into account when entering a new state.”
The publication concludes that “ideally, future alliance members would resolve outstanding border conflicts before joining the alliance.” “But policymakers have to operate in the real world, not in the world they would like to be in“.
