The day Russia invaded Ukraine is the “moment the world changed in a pretty fundamental way,” said former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, the president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, with the unprovoked attack setting a historical benchmark much like 9/11 or Pearl Harbor or when the Berlin Wall came down.
Daalder discussed the Ukraine war, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in advance of President Joe Biden traveling to Brussels next week to join what the White House called an “extraordinary” NATO summit on March 24. Biden will also take part in an already scheduled European Council Summit.
Speaking on the Sun-Times “At the Table” show, Daalder said, “I think we will remember Feb. 24 really in the same way we remember Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor, or Nov. 9 when the Berlin Wall came down or even Sept. 11, of course, the attacks on New York and Washington and in Pennsylvania, as historical turning points.
