210. Mark Temnycky - Vilnius was a Chance to End Ambiguity & Incrementalism that Left Ukraine Vulnerable.

The July 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania was a chance to end the
ambiguity and incrementalism that has left Ukraine vulnerable to Russian
aggression and continues to feed Putin’s delusions that he can win the
war and beat the Western alliance. The NATO summit, Ukraine's summer
counter-offensive, and the recent instability between Russia and the
Wagner Group have ensured that the Russo-Ukrainian war remains in the
headlines. But what discussions are happening behind closed doors and
what events on the ground may be influencing the direction of the war
and its aftermath? Will the clear moral stance of supporting Ukraine in
wartime, descend into messy compromises in peacetime, and ethical
trade-offs with the pariah terror state, Russia?
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SPEAKER:
Mark Temnycky is a Ukrainian-American freelance journalist, based just
outside of New York City, and is a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic
Council’s Eurasia Centre. He has covered Eastern European affairs and
energy security matters for seven years, with articles published in The
New York Times, Forbes, Daily Mail, EUobserver, Kyiv Post, Atlantic
Council, Wilson Centre, and other US and European news outlets and think
tanks. His works have been cited and shared by European Parliament,
NATO, Helsinki Commission, RAND Corporation, Transparency International,
and other government institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and
been widely interviewed in UK, US, and EU media.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/MTemnycky
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktemnycky/
https://bylinetimes.com/author/mtemnycky/
https://cepa.org/author/mark-temnycky/
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/mark-temnycky
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/mark-temnycky/
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ARTICLES:
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/16845
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/09/ukraine-and-georgia-should-be-welcomed-into-nato/
https://cepa.org/article/weapons-and-ammunition-need-to-be-higher-on-nato-agenda/
https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/the-doorstep/ukraine-next-move-mark-temnycky