Ivo Daalder: “this is as close as you can come to the definition of a war crime as possible.”

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.

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…

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

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.