Ukraine’s near-term NATO aspirations were dashed this weekend ahead of the alliance’s annual summit, which is being held this year in Vilnius, Lithuania. “I don’t think [Ukraine] is ready for membership in NATO,” President Joe Biden told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, in an interview that aired Sunday. “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.” But Ukraine will not walk away from the July 11-12 gathering empty-handed.