Ukraine


I really don't see the point of vapid tweets like this...other than virtue signaling. It's an incredibly simplistic viewpoint (as are most single tweets on matters of geopolitical importance).

Ukraine's valiant defense of its country does not change the plain fact that Ukraine simply did not (yet) meet the conditions for admission into NATO.

On the flip side, I don't recall broad popular uproar from "personalities" at the time of the admission of Turkey or Hungary into NATO (although certainly there was justified skepticism about Turkey from political and academic circles). And, in the case of Hungary, democracy is just that -- Orban was fairly (albeit, sadly) elected.

What would the U.S. response be if a proposal were to be made that NATO rules be changed such that the U.S. did not have a veto? Play those potential scenarios twenty years into the future.

I'm certainly not defending Orban or Erdogan but these simplistic, arrogant and moralistic Twitter posts, absent any practical consideration of broader effect, drive me absolutely crazy.