by Bernhard at Moon of Alabama
Newsweek is lying with this headline:
NATO Will Be Drawn Into War With Russia if Ukraine Loses: Lloyd Austin
It wording leaves out the (faulty) reasoning Austin attempts to apply:
Speaking at a Republican-led House Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss his recent absence while hospitalized for complications from prostate cancer surgery, Austin predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not “stop” if Moscow wins the war in Ukraine.
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“We know that if Putin is successful here, he will not stop,” Austin said. “He will continue to take more aggressive action in the region. And other leaders around the world, other autocrats, will look at this and they’ll be encouraged by the fact that this happened and we failed to support a democracy.”
There is however no evidence, as in zero, that Russia is interested in taking even the whole of Ukraine or, moreover, anything beyond that.
Austin’s logic is also faulty with regards to a different aspect.
The original claim was and is that Ukraine should enter NATO because that would protect it from being attacked by Russia.
But if Russia would, as Austin claims, attack the Baltics, i.e. beyond Ukraine, it would attack NATO member states. That claim thus puts the whole theory of a protective value of a NATO membership into question.
Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal has published parts of the draft peace deal that had been negotiated in spring 2022 between Ukraine and Russia:…
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