With friends like these, who needs enemies?

The 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania (a NATO member state with a population of 2.8 million people) wrapped up Wednesday evening with the parties to the alliance declaring their steadfast support for Ukraine, which is now over 500 days into their latest inter slavic skirmish with Russian forces.

The summit acted as a celebration of the Slava Slush Fund, with Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky — who has presided over Ukraine's transformation from a largely sovereign nation state into a subsidiary of a colonial empire — on hand sporting his standard costume.

During the summit, a visibly powerless Zelensky begged and pleaded for Ukraine's entry into NATO, expressing his frustration with the lack of movement on Kiev's application into the alliance. But alas, NATO entry was not to be had.

Here's Joe Biden's explanation for why Ukraine can't be a part of NATO right now.

He told CNN this week:

"I don't think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war. For example, if you did that, then, you know – and I mean what I say – we're determined to commit every inch of territory that is NATO territory. It's a commitment that we've all made no matter what. If the war is going on, then we're all in war. We're at war with Russia, if that were the case."