Now Ukraine is becoming "friend" for West

First, this is not just an emotion - it is a fixation of the new geopolitical status quo. Claims of any Russian regime to have "special" interests in Ukraine are no longer taken as a given for policy-making. The Kremlin will continue to interfere and create problems, but not determine them.

“Claims of any Russian regime to have "special" interests in Ukraine are no longer taken as a given for policy-making”

And secondly, the United States and the West as a whole should actively help Ukraine become a success story. The "expansion" of the West should be a success story, unlike, for example, Afghanistan, which has never been considered part of the West. Biden's words are like the well-known NATO identification of "friend or foe" for airplanes. Now we are becoming "friend" for the West. This is the new geopolitical status quo.

And then, of course, there will be more…

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About the author. Pavlo Klimkin, diplomat, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

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