risk for both the west and russia. joining me now is nbc news foreign correspondent, ali, and from kyiv, kelly. ali, president biden s going to meet with. sean: zelenskyy today. he s clearly not happy. that s right. he was here, he was addressing a massive crowd of supporters all waving ukrainian flags and he wasn t happy. he was talking about nato that doesn t waste time. he was very clear about that. he says they have to be decisive in their actions. yesterday, he tweeted that it was absurd that they were not giving a clear path to nato s membership. so this is clearly upset president zelenskyy and this was not the quantum leap he had hoped for nor the rest of kyiv hoped for. clearly, these issues are going to be front and center with his meeting there, but he has to tread a very careful line. the united states is the biggest financial and military contributor to ukraine and president zelenskyy can t overlook that. so i don t think he s going to try and alienate preside
Risk for both the west and russia. joining me now is nbc news foreign correspondent, ali, and from kyiv, kelly. ali, president biden s going to meet with. sean: zelenskyy today. he s clearly not happy. that s right. he was here, he was addressing a massive crowd of supporters all waving ukrainian flags and he wasn t happy. he was talking about nato that doesn t waste time. he was very clear about that. he says they have to be decisive in their actions. yesterday, he tweeted that it was absurd that they were not giving a clear path to nato s membership. so this is clearly upset president zelenskyy and this was not the quantum leap he had hoped for nor the rest of kyiv hoped for. clearly, these issues are going
There is zero possibility that any member of nato wants to enter the war against russia. zelenskyy and ukraine are getting tens of billions of dollars with economic, humanitarian and military support from not just nato, but the contact group so for him to insist on this public gesture, it seems to me is fool hearty. this plays into putin s hand. he wants to claim he s fighting against nato. not criminal invasion of a neighboring country. so i think he s out over his skis here and this is not good for ukraine. what s your take on f 16s to turkey? i think it s going to happen but they re complex, high payoff. i think the political decision to be made by both the u.s. and nato that they ll get them. this is a one or two-year option to preserve the peace after the
To be front and center with his meeting there, but he has to tread a very careful line. the united states is the biggest financial and military contributor to ukraine and president zelenskyy can t overlook that. so i don t think he s going to try and alienate president biden in tomorrow s meeting. he s going to be grateful for all the support they ve given but he s going to press hard about getting a clear path to nato membership. today, he spoke about that not only giving ukraine security, but also strengthening nato. that s been his call since the beginning of this war. he s saying this is just not effecting ukraine. that could affect the rest of europe and beyond if russia is able to succeed. that s why he s so determined to get his country membership to nato, but this is clearly going to be a very long path and ukraine still has to meet many conditions before they re let in. kelly, what is it you point from ukraine? it was a question of whether
By the way, finland has to decide whether or not there are nato boots permanently on the ground. they have yet to do so. he s also concerned about the same thing in sweden. he said russia would take the necessary measures to protect their security. we don t know what that will be going forward. thank you guys very much and joining us now, barry mccaffery. clearly, general, president zelenskyy wants into nato, but there are some conditions as ali and kelly pointed out. is it your expectation those conditions will be met and is it going to be on a shorter or a longer timeline? to be honest, i think zelenskyy, who has shown such incredible political judgment in international diplomatic influence is really pushing on a locked door now. this is not good for ukraine.