The West is not what it used to be.
The West is still not what it should be.
But we have no other West.
The West today lacks Churchill, but has an oversupply of Chamberlains.
And if we paraphrase Churchill:
The West will make the right decision after trying all the others.
The West is doing what is necessary, thank God, so that Ukraine does not lose, but, alas, not doing enough so that Ukraine wins...
We have no choice but to breathe deeply through clenched teeth and tell ourselves that nothing is as bad as it seems, although it is not as good as we would like it to be...
Let's call a spade a spade.
A number (not including Finland and Sweden) of the last NATO members did not fulfill these conditions, which they now impose on Ukraine.
Who Macedonia? Albania? Slovakia? Hungary? Or Bulgaria - with terrible corruption and full of Russian agents?
The conditions that Ukraine allegedly does not meet are very important. But they are arrangements, they are occasions, not reasons.
In fact, it is paradoxical, but the following can be said:
It is not that Ukraine is not ready for NATO membership, but NATO is not ready for Ukraine's NATO membership.
07/11/2023