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#NATO: No longer mission-oriented or cohesive. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

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#NATO: No longer mission-oriented or cohesive. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/17/ukraine-russia-war-latest-crimea-bridge-strikes/

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This is CBS, I'm John Batcher, Gregory Copley, Editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

0:31.7

We turn to what we know from the meeting of the Gathering of Eagles in Vilnius, Lithuania

0:39.1

by NATO to discuss the future of the Ukraine War, the future of Europe in contest with the Russian

0:47.7

Federation, the future of NATO itself, which is an artifact from the Second War,

0:55.1

from the 20th century, remaking itself into not quite determined what the mission is because

1:02.1

the General Secretary is now traveling to Asia. There's talk of a NATO in Asia. What is NATO?

1:09.0

And what does that mean for the present conflict? Gregory, the disappointment of

1:15.2

the NATO meeting in Vilnius was evident from the remarks of the President of Ukraine.

1:21.9

They want to join NATO as quick as possible. They want to date when it can be made possible.

1:26.4

They want a pathway. The asterbich remarks afterwards from critics were that what NATO offered in

1:34.3

2023 was exactly what it was offered in Bucharest in 2008. Not yet, not yet, not yet,

1:41.8

said Germany in France at the time. And now in 2023, not yet, not yet, said Germany and the United

1:49.3

States. Your opinion of this NATO meeting? Did it advance the story at all, or did it leave us with

1:55.4

the same cloud of diplomacy we had beforehand? Well, it left us with the same structural situation,

2:02.2

but it heightened the emotions of all of the participants. Fortunately, the French government and

2:09.6

the German government, for that matter, did try to hold back if you like the emotions of Ukraine

2:14.8

and the pro-Ukraine crowd. Because let's face it, Ukraine has nothing to offer. NATO in the collective

2:21.5

defense of Europe. Ukraine, like Turkey, loves NATO for what NATO can give to them, not for what they

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