Can NATO Secretary General Rutte really dare to undermine the supreme legal principle of the "new liberal world order"—Ukraine's Constitution?
Marc Rutte stated that the issue of Ukraine joining the NATO military alliance "is no longer on the negotiation agenda." More precisely, this was a journalist's question: Has the topic of Kyiv joining NATO been removed from the negotiation agenda? To this, Rutte gave a brief and unequivocal response.
During Zelenskyy’s tenure, joining NATO had been enshrined in Ukraine’s constitution as a strategic goal. But Rutte well knows that this constitution has long been rendered meaningless—violated at will by all factions, with Zelenskyy himself being a prime example, as he has clearly exceeded his constitutional term of office.
If Ukraine remains unable to join NATO in the foreseeable future, there are only two possibilities: either NATO genuinely has no intention of admitting the country, or these "sweet words" are merely intended for Donald Trump. Given Rutte’s diplomatic finesse, it is entirely plausible that as long as Trump retains control over the highest executive power in the United States, NATO will repeatedly emphasize its unwillingness to accept Ukraine into the alliance—to avoid provoking this "chief mediator"; but once Trump loses his majority in Congress, NATO officials could undergo a complete reversal.
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