{"id":582528,"date":"2023-07-13T03:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nato-summit-exposes-rifts-in-biden-zelensky-bond\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T03:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:29:31","slug":"nato-summit-exposes-rifts-in-biden-zelensky-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nato-summit-exposes-rifts-in-biden-zelensky-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"#NATO summit exposes rifts in Biden, Zelensky bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/bidenjoe_zelenskyyvolodymyr_071223ap_zelensky.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s high-profile diplomatic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to the NATO summit in Europe has exposed some cracks in the U.S.\u2019s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said a lack of urgency to include his country in the alliance would only allow Russia to \u201ccontinue its terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has hit the brakes on NATO accepting Ukraine into the alliance, after the war-torn country has been vying for a membership. Biden took to Vilnius to assure other world leaders that a country engaged in a war with Russia wouldn\u2019t be accepted as a member \u2014 citing the mutual defense agreement that a war with a NATO ally is a war with all.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>That point was reiterated later by national security spokesman John Kirby, who said the inclusion of Ukraine \u201cisn\u2019t likely\u201d while acknowledging: \u201cYes, there are frustrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s comments on Ukraine not being ready to join NATO were some of his clearest yet on the matter, and one in which other alliance leaders agree, much to Zelensky\u2019s ire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of question marks, not only in the Ukrainian government but also among Ukrainians, about why it is the United States, which has been so supportive of Ukraine in the past\u2026[are] the ones who are dragging on any firmer commitment for Ukraine\u2019s NATO perspective,\u201d said Liana Fix, a fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>The tone on Wednesday was markedly more conciliatory when Biden met with Zelensky on the sidelines of the summit. But, Biden made sure to reiterate his stance that Ukraine isn\u2019t ready for a NATO membership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think until the war is over,\u201d Biden said on when Ukraine can join the alliance, adding that \u201cthe one thing Zelensky understands now is that whether or not he\u2019s in NATO now is not relevant as long as he has the commitments that\u2026guarantee his security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But one day earlier, Zelensky lambasted the alliance for not setting a timeline for his country to join the NATO, saying \u201cit seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Zelensky on Wednesday shifted his rhetoric when NATO leaders said that a membership action plan, which gives advice for a country seeking to join, would not be required for Ukraine\u2019s future membership into NATO. But, he has continued to take issue with the wording that Ukraine needs to meet \u201cconditions\u201d to be invited to NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe absolute majority of our people expect specifics about these conditions. We perceive them as security conditions. We understand that Ukraine cannot become a member of NATO while the war is ongoing. But then it will be our common strength when Ukraine joins the Alliance,\u201d the Ukrainian president <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1679112271249784834?s=20\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Zelensky relationship hasn\u2019t always been perfect. Biden last year <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/biden-lost-temper-zelenskyy-phone-call-ukraine-aid-rcna54592\">reportedly<\/a> lost his temper with the Ukrainian president, asking him to show some gratitude for the assistance the U.S. has provided while Zelensky was asking for more.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>While frustrations with Zelensky have bubbled up before, they have not been so <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent on the world stage as they were this week in Europe. Biden and Zelensky have demonstrated a strong bond since the start of Ukraine\u2019s 18-month-old war but the cracks exposed at the summit marked a change in tone compared late last year when Zelensky left his country for the first time since the Russian invasion to travel to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, in turn, made a surprise and historic visit to Kyiv in February to mark the one-year anniversary of the war. The two visits elevated Biden\u2019s role as the leader of NATO when it comes to the response to Russia and support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But just days before he embarked on the Europe trip, Biden said in a televised interview that Ukraine wasn\u2019t ready to join NATO, which set off a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of alliance leaders falling behind the U.S. president.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The outburst by Zelensky was squashed relatively quickly this week. The Ukrainian president on Wednesday complimented Biden following their one-on-one meeting and even acknowledged the damaging political implications of approving controversial cluster bombs to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like the Ukrainians realize that they have overstepped a bit, that they don\u2019t have the power to do that\u2014to damage the relationship that they have with the US. And they\u2019re sort of slowly walking it back. I would say it\u2019s not really a rift in the relationship\u2026 but it\u2019s a testing of Ukraine,\u201d Fix said.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Coffey, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and a former adviser at the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, said that while it\u2019s not realistic that a country at war would be brought into NATO, Biden backlash is largely due to messaging.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a problem with how all this stuff is being communicated. Whenever President Biden says that Ukraine isn\u2019t ready to join NATO, what I suspect he means and what many other NATO leaders mean is that as long as Ukraine is involved in a war with Russia, it can\u2019t join the alliance,\u201d Coffey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if these things were worded a bit differently, and more delicately, you could get the same message across without all of the drama that we\u2019re seeing right now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Since Zelensky\u2019s criticism about a lack of a timeline for joining the alliance, the White House has doubled down on the acknowledgment that Ukraine will eventually be a part of NATO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe joined with allies yesterday in agreeing to a very strong, positive message.\u00a0 We reaffirmed that Ukraine will become a member of the NATO Alliance,\u201d national security council senior director for Europe Amanda Sloat said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has had to keep support up for Ukraine at home and avoid seeing enthusiasm for assisting the country falter while some Republican lawmakers have suggested the U.S. can\u2019t provide a blank check. But, a Reuters\/Ipsos poll last month found 65 percent of respondents want the U.S. to continue arming Ukraine, compared to 48 percent who said the same thing back in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fix argued that the personal relationship between the two presidents has remained strong through those issues and predicted it will be able to withstand the latest bumps.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think this is kind of a personal relationship that is between Biden and Zelensky that Zelensky has gone to Washington, Biden to Kyiv,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, that really established such a strong relationship between the two of them and Biden has been really the one who\u2019s having Zelensky\u2019s back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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