NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the fighting could easily drag into an “unresolved conflict,” with neither side willing to make the concessions necessary for any deal.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on June 2. Ukraine may face a long war of attrition with Russia, and Kyiv’s allies need to find a way to make their support “sustainable” over the long term, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.The NATO leader said in an interview with The Washington Post that the alliance’s goal should be to support Ukraine’s effort to achieve a battlefield outcome that would ultimately lead to a negotiated end to the conflict.
The NATO chief acknowledged that the price tag of Western support for Ukraine is steadily rising, but he said ending the support would also be costly because it would embolden Russia. “Action has a price; inaction has a high price,” Stoltenberg said. “Because then we are really risking that the lesson Russia learns is that they reach their goals by using military force, and then they will be tempted to do it again and again and again. And that would be much more expensive.”The NATO leader was in Washington this week to meet with President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken ahead of an alliance summit in Madrid at the end of the month.
Stoltenberg said he was optimistic about smoothing out disagreements ahead of the summit, noting that NATO nations were already giving Ukraine “unprecedented” military aid and that the alliance itself had deployed thousands of troops to its border nations since the conflict began in February. And he said he believed he could help foster an agreement between Turkey and the two aspiring members, who abandoned long-standing policies of nonalignment after the conflict started.The latest:
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