NATO expansion was well-intentioned and designed to enlarge the zone of democratic peace in Europe while acknowledging the right of independent states to have a major say in their own security arrangements.
Although NATO expansion to Russia’s boarders did not directly cause Russia’s violent assault on Ukraine, it is hard to argue it played no role at all. But we must not allow wrath toward Russia to cloud thinking about NATO expansion. Russia must be held accountable and punished for these crimes. Russia has assaulted Ukraine and committed heinous war crimes against Ukrainians. These two ideas present an inadequate range of possibilities.
The concept centers on the idea of deploying a substantial, armed training and monitoring mission of at least several thousand Western troops, including Americans, to Ukraine after a ceasefire or peace accord - but doing so under the auspices, and with the protection, of a new security architecture and perhaps also the United Nations, rather than NATO.Ĭurrent thinking about security architectures to help Ukraine focus on NATO membership for Ukraine, on the one hand, and a “porcupine” strategy on the other, by which NATO countries would enhance arms exports to Ukraine so as to maximize the odds of successful self-defense.
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We offer one proposal here for how to protect Ukraine - while also improving the odds that Russia can someday again become a responsible part of the European security order, or at least reducing the odds that it will increasingly go rogue across a range of issues.
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