It was 2008, on the eve of the Bucharest Summit, where the North Atlantic Treaty Organization considered expansion by inviting new members from the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. Andre Glucksmann and I co-signed an open letter to the president of France and the chancellor of Germany urging them to listen to the pleas of Ukraine, which has sought to defend itself from the Russian empire since declaring its independence in in 1918. Seventeen years after the second liberation in 1991, the leaders in Kyiv see no other path but this one: the Membership Action Plan, a plan that would enable their nation one day join NATO.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 28, 2023 06:57 UTC