Ukraine Will Never Be In NATO Says Former US Ambassador to NATO | Robert E. Hunter and Heinz Gärtner

The NATO summit pledged more military financial aid for Ukraine. Robert Hunter warned that this could escalate the war into Russia proper. The war delays Ukraine’s membership for an indefinite time. A divided Ukraine will not become NATO member. Russia will recover after 15-20 years and will have to be integrated in European security institutions. Russia’s isolation could lead to the Versailles analogy. Models for post-war Europe could be the Congress of Vienna 1815 or the Summit of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Helsinki 1975. NATO should not expand to Asia and Austria should remain neutral. Robert E. Hunter served as U.S. ambassador to NATO (1993-98) and on the National Security Council staff throughout the Carter administration. He was Senior Advisor to the RAND Corporation from 1998 to 2011, and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Security Studies at the National Defense University, 2011-2012. He served on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. Heinz Gärtner is a Professor of Political Science and chair of the advisory board of the International Institute for Peace (IIP) in Vienna. He had research and teaching positions among others at the Universities in Stanford and Oxford, at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, and at the East-West Security Institute in New York. Article by Pascal and Heinz: “In Defense of Neutrals: Why They’re More Than Fence Sitter” Foreign Policy, June 6, 2023. ------------------------------------------------------ Pascal’s academic articles about neutrality studies: “The Future of Neutrality”. Geneva Center for Security Policy, Policy Briefs, no.4, 2023. ISBN: 978-2-88947-407-3. “Dual-Neutrality for the Koreas: A Two-Pronged Approach toward Reunification.” Defense & Security Analysis, 2022, “The Politics and Diplomacy of Neutrality.” Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, “Neutrality Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, ). “Going East: Switzerland’s Early Consular Diplomacy toward East and Southeast Asia.” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte 27 no. 1, 2020, 23–34, “Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan.” New Global Studies 11, no.2, 20 17. 85–100, Pascal’s books about neutrality studies: Lottaz Pascal, and Ingemar Ottosson. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931–1945. London: Routledge, 2021. Lottaz Pascal, Heinz Gärtner, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, Reginbogin, Herbert, and Pascal Lottaz, eds. Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, Lottaz Pascal, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Notions of Neutralities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019,