The alliance continues to be torn over Kyiv’s future membership, ignoring the dynamics that got us here in the first place.

The document says just under 100 troops from the US, Britain, France, and Latvia are in Ukraine

In an April 6 posting on his website, analyst Gilbert Doctorow cited a Russian media report that as many as 200 senior NATO generals and other high-ranking officers including 20 Americans were killed when an underground bunker where they were […]

The United States transformed the original NATO defensive constitution into its own professional warmonger whose aggression in the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East were perfectly symbolized in the statement by Madeleine Albright that the killing of half a million children in the Iraq War of 2013-2017 – more than half the number who died in the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima – was “worth it”- Worth what? The preservation of US global dominance?

We in the West like to troll Russia with the argument that Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine failed to achieve its goals. Oddly, one of the claimed goals in making that argument is that rather than stopping NATO expansion, Putin’s invasion has led to NATO’s further expansion, military-political consolidation, and military strengthening. This is odd, because Western, particularly US policy, has been built on the premise that Putin feigns fear of NATO expansion in order to engage in his own expansion. The reality, of course, is quite different. NATO is struggling to include not just Ukraine but also Finland and Sweden into the alliance, but because of NATO member Turkey’s resistance driven by the prospective new members’ support for Kurdish rebels this expansion is also going rather poorly.

“We are fighting a war against Russia,” the German Foreign Minister says, as the US and Germany authorize tank shipments, and new dangers, in the Ukraine proxy war.

Nearly a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in President Joe Biden’s own words, “Armageddon.” Alongside the literal battlefield has been a similarly bitter intellectual battle over the war’s causes.

“We are carrying out NATO’s mission.” As Ukraine’s defense minister acknowledges the proxy war, NATO proxy warriors disregard the toll.

The defining moment in US President Joe Biden’s press conference at the White House last Wednesday, during President Zelensky’s visit, was his virtual admission that he is constrained in the proxy war in Ukraine, as European allies don’t want a war with Russia.

Congress can end the war in Ukraine and win a Nobel Peace Prize by enacting a statute withdrawing the United States from NATO — transforming it from a mighty offensive oak into a tiny acorn unalarming to Russia.