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• How could NATO get this war-torn European country out of its never-ending “in between” position, a grey zone and a strategic no man’s land that have left it vulnerable to those who deny it the right to exist?
• At the close of the meeting, it’s important o acknowledge that the circle has not been squared.

The dangers of a conditional accession

• This is, of course, welcome and even the Henry Kissinger, a famous proponent of realpolitik who was long opposed to Ukraine’s membership, shifted views earlier this year.
• However, US president Joe Biden cut the enthusiasm short: a “prematured” accession would thrust NATO into a direct military conflict with Russia, which sees the Alliance as an existential threat.
• Volodymyr Zelensky himself admitted that his country could not join as long as the war was still being fought.
• As Zelensky warned: “We must remember that every doubt we show here in Europe is a trench that Russia will definitely try to occupy.”

How to deal with the “interim” period?

• This will be decisive to dissuade Russia from engaging into a new escalation and to place Ukraine in a strong negotiating position when time comes for a peace settlement.
• The debate about “security guarantees” erupted right after the launch of the Russian “special operation”.
• Since then, however, neutrality for Ukraine has been relegated to the dustbin of history.

A military ‘Marshall Plan’

• This kind of military “Marshall Plan”, as Eric Ciaramella, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, coined it, would keep Ukraine under “qualitative military edge”, the technological and tactical advantage to deter and, if necessary, defeat a numerically superior adversary.
• The “Kyiv Security Compact” draws its inspiration from the “hedgehog theory”, under which a state becomes so well armed that its enemies will not try to swallow it.
• The European Union could follow this path, and complement the G7’s offer with its own set of assistance measures.
• Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary-General of the Atlantic Alliance, stated that Ukraine is “now closer to NATO than ever before”.
• More realistically, one could say that the martyred country remains trapped in the antechamber of the new European security order.

• Berlin, Germany, April 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announced today the launch of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, its fifth global center.
• “As we open the doors of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, we begin a new chapter in Carnegie’s future while also enhancing our decades-long focus on one of the world’s most consequential regions,“ said Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• “It is exciting that the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center is making Berlin its base.
• The Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center , which is part of the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins a community of centers in Beirut, New Delhi, and East Asia, as well as a center in Brussels that focuses on European foreign policy in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London and other European capitals.

• WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HinduPACT, the Hindu Mandir Executives' Conference (HMEC), prominent Hindu organizations and over 200 concerned Hindus are calling on the Seattle City Council to Reject CB 120511.
• Deepak Tickoo, HinduPACT Seattle said, "As a concerned Hindu from the Seattle area, I am concerned about the effect this ordinance will have on Hindus working and living in my community.
• "This ordinance is driven by hatred against Hindus," said Tejal Shah, Convenor of the Hindu Mandir Executives' Conference (HMEC) and Jt.
• Deepti Mahajan, Executive Director of CHINGARI said, "Seattle city council will be rubbing salt on age old wounds of the Hindu community because caste has been imposed and shaped by centuries of colonial rule and exploitation.