President Joe Biden closed the NATO summit last night with the announcement of the “Ukraine Compact.” The compact follows on from the G7 declaration on Ukraine signed at the NATO summit in Vilnius and the bilateral security agreements that about two dozen members of NATO have signed with the Kyiv regime since. The compact, Biden said, “brings all those countries together in a unified, coordinated, and comprehensive architecture to support Ukraine not just for now but for years in the future.” In other words, the compact further institutionalizes the permanent war against Russia. The compact, Biden claimed, is “a central piece” of Ukraine’s “bridge to NATO.”
“Russia will not prevail in this war,” he vowed, ruling out, again, any resolution of the conflict other than the military defeat of Russia. “Ukraine will prevail in this war. And we will stand with them every single step of the way. That’s what the compact says loudly and clearly.”
The compact, itself, was signed by 25 members of NATO plus the European Union. Notably absent from the list are, among others, Hungary, Slovakia and Türkiye. It states: “Today, we announce the Ukraine Compact (Compact) with a view towards coordinating and accelerating our collective efforts to meet Ukraine’s comprehensive security needs, as outlined in the Joint Declaration and in the security agreements and arrangements each of the signatories (Compact Signatories) has completed with Ukraine. Through this Compact, we declare our enduring intent and commitment to ensure Ukraine can successfully defend its freedom, independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity today and deter acts of aggression in the future.”
The signers commit themselves to: “Support Ukraine’s immediate defense and security needs, including through the continued provision of security assistance and training, modern military equipment, and defense industrial and necessary economic support, working bilaterally and through existing multilateral mechanisms….” Second, they plan to: “Accelerate efforts to build a Ukrainian future force that maintains a credible defense and deterrence capability….” And, third, they commit to help Ukraine defend itself should Russia attack it again someday in the future, after the current war concludes (presumably in Ukraine’s favor).
“We intend to uphold these commitments with unwavering determination by leveraging the multilateral security architecture that supports Ukraine,” it concludes. “Compact Signatories plan to take these commitments forward while Ukraine pursues its pathway towards future membership in the EU, NATO, and the broader Euro-Atlantic community.”