Atlantic Council memo to NATO leaders written by Ian Brzezinski, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy, and Amb. Alexander Vershbow, former NATO Deputy Secretary General and US ambassador to NATO and Russia, offers wide ranging steps for NATO to implement in Vilnius to help Ukrai

rs carefully maneuvered between the Scylla of an authoritarian Kremlin and the Charybdis of U.S. democratic values. The Kremlin disliked the strong Alexander Vershbow, ambassador to Russia from 2001 to 2005, and also attempted to exert powerful pressure on him. But Vershbow openly criticized Putin's authoritarian