The NATO Summit Proved the Alliance Is Strong and Still Has Ukraine’s Back

The transformation undergone by NATO in the past year and a half has been nothing short of astonishing. This week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania demonstrated that both intentionally and unintentionally, both positively and through a bit of unnecessary blundering.

Over the course of the two-day summit, NATO took steps to continue the rapid strengthening that began with its unified and potent response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022.

Each would have been considered hard to imagine just a couple of years ago. The path for Sweden to join NATO was cleared. With the recent accession of Finland to the alliance, two major sophisticated militaries have been added to its ranks.