Biden, a key ally to the Eastern European country, questioned its qualifications to join the military alliance on Saturday.
"I think Biden's statement by itself is not problematic at all, because clearly you don't want to argue the converse--that there should be a specially easy path for Ukraine," he said."The criteria that we laid out in the 1990s should apply--countries have to be democracies. They have to have free market economies, responsible foreign policy."
Fried warned that the administration being too ambiguous about Ukraine's future NATO status could signal to Putin that Kyiv remains in a"gray zone" with regards to its ties to the West. Ukraine has sought to accelerate its NATO membership, a major sticking point with Moscow prior to its invasion last year, amid the Russia-Ukraine war. NATO has backed Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict, with many of its member states signalingto the alliance once it meets the standards set out for all members. Concerns about political corruption have thus far kept Ukraine out of NATO.
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