So langsam dämmert es anscheinend in USA
In einem Meinungsartikel in der New York Times "How to retreat from Ukraine" setzt sich Ross Douthat mit der Frage auseinander wie sich die USA "erfolgreich" aus der Ukraine zurückziehen könnte und schlägt dabei vor die Aussicht auf eine NATO-Mitgliedschaft für die Ukraine für mehrere Jahrzehnte auszusetzen.
One of the hardest challenges in geopolitics is figuring out how to conduct a successful retreat. We witnessed that reality last summer in Afghanistan, when the Biden administration made the correct strategic choice — cutting our losses instead of escalating to preserve a morally bankrupt status quo — but then staggered through a disastrous withdrawal that wounded his presidency and laid bare American incompetence to a watching world.
Now we face the same problem with Ukraine.
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The expansion of NATO to include countries of the former Warsaw Pact was itself a risk, but at the moment those commitments seem secure. But the attempt to draw Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit, the partway-open door to Ukrainians who preferred westward-focused alliances, was a foolish overcommitment even when American power was at its height.
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Whatever its desires or ours, the government in Ukraine has simply never been in a position to fully join the West — it’s too economically weak, too internally divided and simply in the wrong place.
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Given those realities, and the pressing need to concentrate American power in East Asia to counter China, it’s clear enough where an ideal retreat would end up: with NATO expansion permanently tabled
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But as with Afghanistan, the actual execution is harder than the theory.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/22/opinion/russia-ukraine-us-nato.html