The United States and NATO are unlikely to give Ukraine security guarantees as if it were part of the militarist bloc, an antiwar.com analysis estimated today.
In an approach to the crisis in that European country, Dave DeCamp, deputy editor of that medium and independent journalist focused on foreign policy and the wars of the United States, addressed the idea of kyiv giving up joining NATO at the same time that calls for security guarantees such as the one established in article 5 of the bloc.
That is unlikely to happen, CNN reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources, after Ukrainian authorities presented Russia with a draft peace agreement that focuses on that demand.
NATO Article 5 states that an attack on one member of the alliance is an attack on all.
The United States and its NATO allies say they don’t want to fight Russia over Ukraine, so they are unlikely to agree to what is essentially a mutual defense treaty, DeCamp noted.
And more importantly, he stressed, there is little chance that Russia will accept such an agreement, since one of its main reasons for going to war was Ukraine’s alignment with NATO.
Some sources told CNN that the United States and other NATO countries have held talks with Ukraine about possible security guarantees. A Western official said that “anything short of a full commitment to defending Ukraine will not be enough for the Ukrainians,” the analyst was quoted as saying.
Despite the ongoing talks between kyiv and Moscow, in general, the United States and its allies do not seem very interested in promoting negotiations to reach a diplomatic solution to the war.
The Financial Times reported on Thursday that Western powers are united in their opposition to linking progress in peace talks to sanctions relief and are poised for a long-term economic campaign against Russia, the analyst noted.
