To sign a "Existential War" treaty with a nation which is under occupation by an equal Nuclear Power would be lunacy of the highest order.
Anyone who does such a thing is not smart enough to survive as a country or civil society.
Well said!
Hopefully not. This is just a yellow-bellied way for Ukraine to get others to fight the fight it picked.
Ukraine’s non-aligned status lead to invasion and occupation by Russia, so getting rid of this nonsense is a natural reaction. Weather they join NATO or seek other arrangements, it’s better than fighting the Mordor alone.
From Ukraine’s point of view there’s no downside to this. The Russians have already invaded Ukraine and the best thing Ukraine can hope to do is to provoke the Russians into doing something even more stupid so the world isolates Russia even further.
The end game is the toppling of the Putin regime and a return to a more civilized Russian leadership.
>>Hopefully the adults in the NATO alliance will not fall for this.
Amen to that. Adult members of FR really need to push a little harder against the knee jerk reactionary adolescents among us who follow the Wall St. party line as a way of life. We are not Abraham Lincoln’s party and haven’t been since Teddy “Bully” Roosevelt and oligarch yellow press that gutted the GOP of its original core beliefs. There are a hand full of us capable of reinstating those original core beliefs, but we better be quick cuz WWIII is looming.