Thread by @cybersoroka

An important summit today in #Brussels NATO & EU

Brussels’s tiny - hope people will still find a way to gather despite the pandemic & advocate for better military aid for 🇺🇦

Keeping my hopes modest not to end up with 💔 but… #peacekeepers would be mighty swell 🙏😔

https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1506788973456334849

It’s a chance if not a pledge for NATO’s future security, to revisit the “red lines” of their military reactions to Russia.

Putin’s been preparing for war with NATO more than with Ukraine. NATO is rigid, bureaucratic and devoid of real military experience. Predictable.

Russia thought Ukraine will be an easy win and then will be able to move on.

A takeaway for NATO from the past month is that the Kremlin cannot be stopped from using conventional weapons at scale by NATO’s current posture or sanctions. The genocide will continue.

The worst thing I see about it is that the longer it will go on - the more ostracized Ukrainian people will feel. The more room for ambiguous interpretation it will leave in the history books.

However long this lasts and whatever will happen next - people won’t forget how Pentagon expected Ukrainians to drop their weapons and run, how Hungary sabotaged sanctions, and how Germany, in all seriousness used “moral debt to Russia” as a reason to withhold military aid.

The conclusion in #Brussels today must be that it’s not possible to stop Russia from starting more conventional wars on European border and across the globe, while nibbling away at world’s democracies. NATO needs to send a clear message that it has overcome its fears.