Summit Season Theater Ahead of the July 7–8 #NATO summit in Ankara, Kyiv has again switched to loud messaging about a turning point, #Crimea, and a 40-day push to force peace. The pattern is familiar: maximum bravado before major meetings, while the real agenda is to mask internal and frontline problems and lobby for another aid package, as this account notes. Behind the performance sits the same dependency #Ukraine has been trying to rebrand as strategy.