I have been posting on this on FR and TS. Remember when the Congress had to approve going to war? Welcome to the new territorial United States, the district that originated the original idea of Constitutional government!
Isn’t this what Austin really said, if NATO is attacked? According to House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) it is.
“If [Vladimir] Putin takes over Ukraine, he’ll get Moldova, Georgia, then maybe the Baltics,”
“And then the idea that we’ll have to put troops on the ground in Secretary Austin’s word was very likely,” Mr. McCaul stated, adding that he wants Congress to pass a Ukraine funding package. “That’s what we’re trying to avoid.”