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Former diplomat says Putin may be laughing at NATOThe Vilnius summit brought Kyiv long-term G7 security pledges, but no timetable for NATO membership.
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- Boris Bondarev, a former Russian UN representative in Geneva, resigned in May 2022 to protest the invasion.
- At the Vilnius summit, the 31-member alliance reaffirmed eventual membership but ruled it out while active hostilities continue.
- Zelensky initially called the lack of an accession timetable absurd, but later praised the summit’s outcomes.
- Bondarev said mixed signals could encourage Moscow, while NATO avoids direct confrontation over fears of broader war and nuclear escalation.
The message is this: if you don't want Ukraine to get into NATO, you must still be present in Ukraine, or must still threaten it, you must shell Ukrainian cities.— Boris Bondarev, ex-Russian representative at the United Nations in Geneva, in a Newsweek interview
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- Vladimir Putin responded by calling the proposal a dangerous provocation and signaling an appropriate response, which Boris Bondarew assesses as nuclear brinkmanship.
- On January 3, 2022, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council reaffirmed their opposition to nuclear war, yet Russia’s war against Ukraine began on February 24, 2022.
- According to Bob Woodward’s new book, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Sergei Shoigu in autumn 2022 against a Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons and indicated that US restraint would be reassessed.
A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.— From the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (USA, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom).
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