Ivo Daalder

It has been core to every administration until now to affirm in a positive way that the United States is committed to the defense of Europe.

The ability of the United States to reassure allies that it’s willing to destroy itself in a nuclear war to defend them is a difficult case to make under the best of circumstances.

I think all the indications are that the Republicans are going to support NATO enlargement.

I don`t think NATO at the moment needs to get directly involved in this conflict. It`s the one line that President Biden really has underscored that he wants to try to avoid.

It would be a very sad mistake. If the United States were the country that said no, we`re not going to support that because of our internal political differences.

This is as close as you can come to the definition of a war crime as possible.

These are supposed to be the people that were supposed to be liberated from the so-called Nazis that were inflicting a genocide on them. And in fact, they’re not being liberated. They’re being deliberately targeted by their so-called…

This is pure terrorism. This is designed to terrorize people who are already terrorized by the fact that they have to leave their homes and flee to other parts of Ukraine because Russian troops are amassing to take over parts of eastern…

Because then you’re at war, not just with Poland, or not just with Lithuania, you’re at war with the entire NATO Alliance, 30 nation strong led by the strongest military power on earth which is the United States.

NATO has stood the test of time. Mr. Putin has just ensured that it will continue to do so.

We found out that it may not be as easy to use just raw military power to achieve victory and that we need something else. We need legitimacy.