A decade ago, I received a four word message from a close German acquaintance who had accompanied Chancellor Angela Merkel to the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, that was tasked to decide whether to provide Georgia and Ukraine with a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP). It read: “Yes, but not now!” Having just seen a couple of episodes of World at War on the History Channel, I laconically and almost whimsically responded: “Fateful decision.”
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Walter Zaryckyj: Why the Bucharest summit still matters 10 years on
US President George W. Bush (R) talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as they attend the NATO-Russia Council meeting at the Parliament in Bucharest on April 4, 2008.
