The United States and NATO are unlikely to provide security guarantees to Ukraine as if it were part of the militarist bloc, according to an antiwar.com analysis estimated today.
In an approach to the crisis in this European country, Dave DeCamp, deputy editor of this medium and an independent journalist who focuses on foreign policy and the wars of the United States, raised the idea of Kyiv abandoning NATO accession at the same time it demands security guarantees like the set out in Article 5 of the Block.
That’s unlikely, CNN reported Friday, citing unnamed sources, after Ukrainian authorities presented Russia with a draft peace deal centered on that demand.
Article 5 of NATO states that an attack on one Ally is an attack on all.
The United States and its NATO allies said they didn’t want to fight Russia over Ukraine, so they probably wouldn’t agree to a mutual defense treaty, DeCamp noted.
More importantly, he stressed, there was little chance that Russia would accept such an agreement, since one of his main reasons for the war was Ukraine’s rapprochement with NATO.
Some sources told CNN that the United States and other NATO countries have been in talks with Ukraine about possible security guarantees. A Western official said that “anything but a full commitment to Ukraine’s defense will not be enough for Ukrainians,” the analyst was quoted as saying.
Despite ongoing talks between Kyiv and Moscow, the United States and its allies in general don’t seem very keen on promoting negotiations to reach a diplomatic solution to the war.
The Financial Times reported on Thursday that Western powers have agreed to link progress in peace talks to the lifting of sanctions and are ready for a long-term economic campaign against Russia, the analyst noted.