Here’s a thought that should highlight how insane our foreign policy has become.
I think we can all agree that Article 5 is designed to protect the strategic national interests of the NATO signatories. European powers such as Germany, the UK, France, etc., are part of our strategic national interests such that an attack on one is an attack on all.
Can anyone tell me what American national strategic interest is at stake in Ukraine? Oil? No. Culture? No. Geography? No. Strategic resources? No. Not a damn thing worth fighting about over Ukraine yet we offer it NATO membership, implicating Art. 5’s one for all, all for one obligations. WTF? And now that Russia has invaded, we refuse to go to war over it because there’s no American strategic interest at stake - despite having offered NATO one for all, all for one guarantees!
This proves something anyone with two neurons to rub together knows: Ukraine is not an American strategic interest. There is nothing in Ukraine we’re willing to go to war over, NATO member or not. Period, full stop.
So, if Ukraine is not worth going to war over, why were we playing with fire, trying to get a Ukraine into NATO, thus obligating us to come to its rescue if Russia or anyone else attacks it?
What could we expect Russia to think when it saw a neighbor with a 1200 mile border about to get Art. 5 guarantees for a piece of real estate in which we have no strategic national interest?
It was the height of folly. Art. 5 guarantees should be in place only to nations that we’re willing to go to war over. Ukraine is not only distant, but it is unimportant to us, though it is vitally important to the Russians.
And now we’re in a situation that is going to be horribly difficult to unwind.
The strongest country on Earth is led by foreign policy idiots. The danger to the world is immeasurable. |
