Nato should stop seeking new foes and face its main enemy – Moscow | Simon Tisdall

The 75-year alliance is at a perilous crux after a summit that failed to deliver for Kyiv or confront the threat Putin poses to Europe's east

Was this the week Ukraine lost the war? Or to put it another way, the week the west lost Ukraine? Heroic battlefield resistance continued, Ukrainian citizens struggled on in the teeth of pitiless atrocities such as the missile strike on Kyiv's Okhmatdyt children's hospital - butin Washington, risk-averse Natoleaders stuck stubbornly to aroute map to defeat.

Ultra-cautious US president JoeBiden, whose political weakness grows by the day, says the 32-country alliance is the strongest the world has ever seen. But what use is an alliance that is afraid of a fight? Rarely has the gap between the rhetoric of solidarity and a dismaying political refusal to directlyconfront Russian brutality yawned so wide.