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Vilnius Summit Shattered Putin’s Anti-NATO Strategy—but Left Ukrainian NATO Membership on Hold

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Vilnius Summit Shattered Putin’s Anti-NATO Strategy—but Left Ukrainian NATO Membership on Hold
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) shakes hands with Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda (2nd L) next to (L-R) Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Joe Biden, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023. Paul Ellis/Pool/Getty Images
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Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine directly targets the Kiev government, but dismantling NATO has been another energizing mania.

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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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