A widespread misconception of NATO’s relation to Ukraine has been sustained by silence in news sources and falsehoods by pundits. According to this myth, the NATO-Ukraine connection, prior to Russia’s current horrific invasion, was a matter of Ukraine’s asking to join and NATO’s not saying “No.”

Sen. Rand Paul gets smeared after challenging Secretary Blinken on America’s muddled Ukraine messaging.

Rand Paul and the debate over NATO expansion

To reach a peace deal with Russia, Ukraine may have to give up its aim to join NATO. But it can only do that with some help from the alliance itself

Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine.

By supplying Ukraine with weapons, ammunition, and intelligence the United States and NATO are waging a proxy war against Russia.

So far the White House is resisting direct US involvement in Ukraine. But plans to bolster weapons and assistance may have consequences.

Although he had stiff competition Sunday, NBC’s Chuck Todd won this week’s Oscar for supporting functionary of the the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank complex (MICIMATT).

Events have shown that Bush Sr’s 1991 ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech was right and his critics were wrong

It’s easy now to claim Putin was always going to invade Ukraine and that unless the West stood up to him, this would simply be the first step in rebuilding the Soviet empire. But maybe it’s much simpler than that; maybe, having ignored his security concerns for so long, we (the West), chose to call his bluff, and he wasn’t bluffing. Maybe we are at least partly responsible for this mess.