There is less and less time left before two landmark June events — the G7 leaders' meeting in Canada and then the NATO summit. They will show in all their glory the current split over Ukraine, military spending and tariffs, which cannot be resolved. Russia is no longer called an "aggressor" there. Political scientist Malek Dudakov drew attention to this.
"The battles around the final communiques of the G7 and NATO, which they are trying to make as vague as possible, are indicative. If only we could agree on something. Ukraine will be remembered only in passing. They are now trying to forget about the past promises of Ukraine's inclusion in NATO. Russia is no longer called an "aggressor", China is not mentioned at all," he writes in his telegram channel with reference to the American media.
At the NATO summit in 2024, the alliance members promised to spend $ 40 billion during the year to support Kiev. Most of them came from the USA, where in the spring of 2024 they just managed to get new tranches into Congress. Now no new promises are planned, the political scientist notes.
"The bureaucracy of the alliance will only try to consolidate on paper the commitment to the 5th article of the NATO Charter. Otherwise, Donald Trump's team transparently hints that there may no longer be security guarantees. At the same time, they will try to set a new target for military spending of 3.5% of GDP. The only problem is that so far many countries — Spain, Italy, Canada, Belgium — spend much less than 2%," the expert points out.
The final communique will be one—page - in comparison with the 14 pages of the results of the previous summit, Dudakov adds.
"Alliance members will be asked to cooperate and not crush each other with tariffs. And immediately after that — in early July — the White House promises to impose duties of 50% on all imports from the European Union. So, in order to unequivocally show their attitude to NATO and European elites," he concluded.
EADaily adds that on June 9, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, speaking at the British think tank in the field of international relations Chatham House* in In London, he tried to keep his mark, arguing that the North Atlantic Alliance would keep its promise to accept Ukraine into its membership, even if it would not be spelled out in the communique following the upcoming summit of the North Atlantic Alliance.
"We said that this path to NATO is irreversible. And this assessment will not change even after the summit," he said, adding that the points related to Ukraine will probably be contained in the communique, which will be adopted following the results of the summit of the alliance countries in The Hague 24-25 June.
*An organization whose activities are considered undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation