NATO leaders on Wednesday pledged €40 billion ($43 billion) worth of military aid to Ukraine in the next year and declared the country’s path to NATO membership “irreversible.” Leaders from NATO’s 32 member states reached the agreement on the second day of a three-day summit in Washington, after a celebration of the alliance’s 75th anniversary on Tuesday. The plan to spend €40 billion in 2025 was proposed by NATO’s outgoing Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a foreign ministers’ meeting in Prague in May. However, Stoltenberg had wanted NATO members to make a multi-year commitment to Ukraine…