Express View on NATO and the Russia-Ukraine conflict: No end in sight

As the conflict in Ukraine reaches the 500-day mark, a series of developments highlight that the geopolitical churn unleashed by Russia's invasion of its neighbour is far from finding an equilibrium. The conflict has neither erased the differences within NATO nor completely isolated Russia. At the same time, Russia is certainly less secure than it was before the war. On Wednesday, Turkey reiterated its opposition to Sweden joining NATO — Recep Erdogan's narrow election win has done nothing to soften Ankara's position. On the same day, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko confirmed that his country had received several nuclear weapons from…