Is Ukraine the Real NATO?
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War Day 831: Is Ukraine the Real NATO?
LVIV—Joe Biden says that maybe Ukraine does not need to be in NATO. But others, such as the rare Russian dissident Garry Kasparov, say Ukraine is actually doing NATO's work. Is Ukraine more NATO than NATO? We also discuss Ukrainians' attachment to stories of good and evil and why these stories are important today.
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President Biden stated that the USA still does not want Ukraine to be in NATO, which frustrates people like Russian dissident Gary Kasparov who believes Ukraine is fighting for the purpose for which NATO was built. [00:00]
American weapons, such as the high mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS), have made a big difference in the IV region of Ukraine, allowing them to hit Russian targets on Russian soil and reducing attacks on the city of Harkiv. [04:55]
Ukrainians believe that stories of good and evil are important, as they prepare children to stand for good when faced with evil. [05:47]
There is increased momentum for Ukraine to get more permission to hit back at the Russians, and Ukrainians are adapting and using technology to their advantage.
While Russia still holds a numerical advantage in artillery, Ukrainian technology, including drones and precision weapons, has helped level the playing field. [07:12]
President Biden's comment that Ukraine doesn't need to be in NATO for there to be peace and victory has upset many people who believe Ukraine is doing the work that NATO was designed to do. [07:44]
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Kasparov Reminds Europe: “[Ukrainians] saved your asses.”
Yesterday President Biden said, naw, Ukraine doesn’t really need to be in Nato. But in a recent conversation with the Silicon curtain podcast, Garry Kasparov, elite world chess grandmaster, said Ukraine is actually doing what Nato was designed to: protect free Europe from Russian authoritarianism.
Let’s take a look at his arguments.
First, Kasparov cautions that European farmers angry at Ukrainians should be a bit more careful: “I just want to remind you,” Kasparov says to those protestors, “that you had two choices: Ukrainian trucks with this grain that you hate or Russian tanks on your border. … [Ukrainians] saved your asses.”
“Ukraine is the only European nation that fights for the very purpose for which Nato was built,” he says.
And: “Why the NATO was created at first place?" Kasparov asks. "NATO had only one goal, one goal only. Not to fight terrorism in Asia or in Africa, but to save free Europe against a Russian invasion. … Today, the Russian invasion is being stopped.” But it's Ukraine, he says, and not NATO, that is stopping that invasion.
And yet, despite Ukraine's defense of the West, the West still won’t give Ukraine the permissions and tools needed to win.
Washington doesn’t even speak the language of victory. Instead, Kasparov says, the White House says: “‘Ah, we will stand with Ukraine as long as it takes.” Kasparov adds that these words are “nonsense because this sentence is very ambiguous.”
What should Washington, and the West, say instead?How about, Kasparov posits, “victory for Ukraine, freedom for Russia, that is our motto, victory for Ukraine, victory that includes full liberation of Ukraine, lands up to Sevastopol [in Crimea]”
But, alas! “I [don’t] hear Western leaders repeating these three simple words, 'Ukraine must win,'" Kasparov says.
And: “It's not just Biden, it's overall weakness because America somehow represents the laziness, the complacency of the free world after the end of the Cold War, triumphant victory. Nobody wants to fight."
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