Natoβs failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for? | Simon Tisdall
The military alliance turns 75 soon. But thereβs little to celebrate in Kyiv, as Putinβs forces continue their bloody advance
Natoβs grand 75th birthday celebration in Washington in July will ring hollow in Kyiv. The alliance has miserably failed its biggest post-cold war test β the battle for Ukraine. Sadly, thereβs no denying it: Vladimir Putin is on a roll.
Advancing Russian forces in Kharkiv profit from the westβs culpably slow drip-feed of weaponry to Kyiv and its leadersβ chronic fear of escalation. Ukraine receives just enough support to survive, never to prevail. Now even bare survival is in doubt.
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