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Dec. 4, 2023

How to stop Ukraine’s NATO bid from derailing Washington summit

John R. Deni for POLITICO | 

It’s time to tear up the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act. 

 

John R. Deni is a research professor at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. He’s the author of “NATO and Article 5.” The views expressed are his own.

Marking the 75th anniversary of NATO’s founding, the alliance’s next summit in Washington is just months away, and allies are eagerly preparing the agenda.

This time around, several member countries are keen to avoid the kind of divisive discussions over Ukraine’s path to membership that publicly played out at last year’s summit in Vilnius — and none more so than hosting nation the United States.

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