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NATO leaders were beaming with pride and daring yesterday. That is, as they celebrated Finland joining NATO as the 31st member. Because Turkey finally lifted its unilateral embargo… Finland joins NATO President Putin threatened dire consequences if NATO expanded its borders with Russia. Yet, with Finland joining, NATO is now doubling its borders with Russia.… Read more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seems hellbent on drawing NATO into direct conflict with Russia. For example, he immediately blamed Russia for a missile that crash-landed in Poland last Tuesday. We can chalk that up to the fog of war. But then Polish President Duda announced that the “missile appears to have been fired by Ukrainian air defence.” More to the… Read more.
President Biden and other NATO leaders have been talking about Article 5 a lot lately. That, of course, is The Three Musketeers-like article which says that an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all. Moreover, that such an attack would trigger a one-for-all-and-all-for-one retaliation. That’s why the public squabbling among NATO members… Read more.
Just weeks ago, Europe was hurling moral indignation at the migrant crisis America allowed to unfold under a bridge near the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. As it happened, I alluded to Russian mischief in the title to my commentary on that crisis, namely “Er, VP Harris, the Migrants Are Coming, the Migrants Are… Read more.
By scrapping former President George W. Bush’s European missile defense plan yesterday, President Obama finally gave his liberal supporters a foreign policy initiative they can cheer about. After all, to date, his initiatives have been distinguished by the fact that he was adopting all of Bush’s. Here, for example, is how I commented on their… Read more.
