As Ukraine’s brutal war nears its third year, two visions risk becoming irreconcilable. On one side, a White House whose policy is in turns strident, revisionist, and then – it seems, sometimes - in urgent need of clarification.

Ukraine has said it doesn't plan to attend a meeting announced by US President Donald Trump with senior Russian officials at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. “A common agreed position should be on the table for a conversation with the Russians.

The mutual-defense alliance has been central to Ukraine’s war against Russia, but the future is uncertain with President Trump back in office.

"Right now, that is still on the table," said John Coale, President Donald Trump's deputy Ukraine envoy, when asked whether the U.S. had ruled out possible NATO membership for Ukraine. Speaking in an interview with Reuters in Munich,

The United States has never seen Ukraine as a NATO member and has never wanted the country in the alliance. This is not just President Donald Trump's position but US policy in general, stated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the Munich Security Conference.