Ivo Daalder: “It has been core to every administration until now to affirm in a positive way that the United States is committed to…”

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.

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.

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.

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