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In Zelensky's plan only item 2 refers to the on-going war, and the rest are dealing with post-war time and arrangements.

Even highly respected and seasoned analysts -time and again- ignore (knowingly?) that NATO is not a monolith, something which could just send an invitation to Ukraine on its own. An invitation, already, requires a unanimous decision by each and every current member. The same holds for actual accession. Is there a single current member state willing to do either? At least Hungary, Turkey, Slovakia and -possibly- Germany are ready for neither.

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Thank you for this.

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"It’s intriguing, and there’s some analysis in the piece to back it up, but color me skeptical." Re: Pomerantsev, serious question. Is there a better strategy?

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I too would like to hear about a better strategy, although I wonder whether the Prigozhin story from more than a year ago is still that relevant. I also heard the journalist Joshua Yaffa speak the other day about some of this. He said his impressions from interviewing Russian friends and colleagues was that average people's day-to-day concerns outweigh concerns about the war and therefore they keep to themselves. Maybe something will change that dynamic over the next year?

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