Ukraine Must Guarantee Its Own Security Re: On Ukraine: Mearsheimer and Dugin

"Ukraine Must Guarantee Its Own Security
A European Troop Commitment Is Not the Way to End This War—or Prevent
the Next One
Emma Ashford
February 18, 2025
At last week’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels, newly
minted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the position of
the U.S. government was that Ukraine will not join NATO. Although
greeted with horror by some in Washington and in European capitals,
Hegseth’s remarks were in fact more a public statement of reality than a
genuine change in policy. ... The risks of admitting Ukraine to the
alliance—reflected in widespread opposition to it in the United States,
Germany, and elsewhere—have long made this reality perfectly clear to
all.
Even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has recently acknowledged
that NATO membership is probably not on the table. He has focused
instead on making a different case to Ukraine’s Western backers: if NATO
membership is not available, then his country needs equivalent security
guarantees from Europe or the United States to prevent Russia from
starting a new war in coming years. With the Trump administration
insisting that no U.S. troops be sent to Ukraine, the conversation in
European capitals is increasingly focused on whether and how European
states can provide “security guarantees” through their own deployments.
Yet there are reasons to doubt whether a European guarantee to provide
troops is feasible, especially without substantial U.S. involvement.
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