Is NATO Ever Going to Admit Ukraine?
Some analysts think NATO is the solution to Russian aggression in Ukraine. Others believe NATO is part of the problem.
“An Obsolete Alliance Turns 75,” wrote Wayne Allensworth for Chronicles Magazine last week.
“From where your humble observer stands, the NATO bureaucracy lost the reason for its existence in the early 1990s but carried on anyway, as bureaucracies are prone to do,” began Allensworth disdainfully. “Today, it seems clear what NATO’s real post-Cold War missions actually are: ensuring its continued existence and expansion and defending certain ‘democratic values’ — that is, imposing what we now know as a ‘woke’ agenda on everyone else.”
“NATO, in fact, no longer has anything to do with defending its member nations,” Allensworth argued. “The unvarnished truth is that NATO’s continued expansion, in antagonizing member nations’ neighbors, has done the opposite: NATO has undermined their security and created enemies that, in turn, justify further NATO interference in an increasingly unstable ‘security environment.’”
“In 1989, I was just about to begin my career in the intelligence community when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War effectively ended,” Allensworth explained by way of background and his credentials. “Ronald Reagan, a man who had based his political career on anti-Communism, made…