How is it that NATO is not a tremendous part of the problem, here? It seems that US efforts to involve the Ukraine in NATO, in the past, were half-hearted at best, if not downright disingenuous. They contributed to this situation.
Germany is in NATO, supposedly protecting other NATO countries with an aging stockpile of leaky GDR missiles. They would probably have to ask Russia for batteries, if they ever wanted to use them. Trump had to deal with Germany seeking billions from the US for NATO defense against Russia, to whom they happily give billions for oil.
I think that Trump might have done for Europe and Russia what he tried to do in the Middle East. NATO and the Swamp of Brussels couldn’t stand that. So here we are.
How is it that NATO is not a tremendous part of the problem, here? It seems that US efforts to involve the Ukraine in NATO, in the past, were half-hearted at best, if not downright disingenuous. They contributed to this situation. The problem is NATO's duplicity with Ukraine plays both ways. If we as a leader of NATO encouraged Ukraine to seek NATO membership knowing that Russia would react, do we not owe Ukraine a moral duty to defend Ukraine against Russia's reaction?
Even more, if we promised Ukraine in writing that we would protect Ukraine's sovereignty in exchange for Ukraine transferring its nuclear weapons, do we not owe Ukraine the duty of keeping our word? Do we not damage our power to deter and our power to enlist allies when we betray our promises?
These issues cut both ways. If America was duplicitous or unfaithful why does that relieve us of moral responsibility?
