Commentary: Will the NATO summit deliver? Even if it does, expect disagreements to linger under the surface.
The Ukrainians have run out of patience, as have some members of the alliance. While proponents such as Sunak and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas recognize that membership for Kyiv is not going to happen as long as Ukraine is fighting a war with Russia, they hope the summit provides the Ukrainian government with more clarity about its prospects.Yet bringing another member into the alliance, particularly one that will always share a large land and sea border with Russia, is no small matter.
NATO membership is deadly serious business with deadly serious strings attached. NATO is a military alliance, not a country club; decisions on who or even whether to admit a new country shouldn’t be based on feelings but on an impartial, emotion-free cost-benefit analysis.
There’s another membership question on the table as well. Sweden’s application has been stalled for more than a year courtesy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has used his veto power to extract a series of concessions from Stockholm. Erdogan posed a similar obstacle to Finland’s bid, only to relent months after Helsinki
with Turkey last summer addressing its concerns over what Erdogan viewed as Kurdish separatist activities on Finnish soil.Read the latest editorials and commentary curated by the Tribune Opinion team.
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