'Kiev’s blood and gold are running short and the West’s dollars and tanks are not enough to turn back the tide.'
Here is what he said at a press conference with Jens Stoltenberg - NATO’s Secretary General - a few days ago: “We need something more than the kind of relationship we are having now … we believe in a guarantee of Ukraine’s security and a concrete guarantee…But while we await membership…, we want to have very specific guarantees of security…”President Zelensky’s wholly understandable frustration puts Mr Stoltenberg in an impossible position.
Good job, war was averted, I hear you say: but what a message of vacillating weakness that sent to President Putin. Yet, it’s upon this same organisation which President Zelensky must now depend. Shortly he must decide where and when to gamble his slender forces and all the time he must be wondering whether those nations who have been so keen to see his troops attack will stand by him should things go wrong. The next few days and weeks will be decisive.
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