The Biden administration recently signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement with Ukraine, plunging the United States and the West deeper into a proxy war with Russia.
In a statement released by the White House, President Joe Biden said that “Ukraine’s future is in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,” reaffirming the administration’s desire to “expand their defense and security cooperation” and also their “trade and investment ties.”
Biden’s insistence on Ukraine joining NATO is deeply troubling on multiple levels, not the least of which is that Russia views the loss of Ukraine to NATO as an existential threat that could lead to rounds of escalation that end with nuclear war.
This is not hyperbole.
While liberal critics point out that Ukraine is an independent nation and can voluntarily enter into any political or security arrangement it desires, this ignores reality and history — the threat of nuclear war arose during the Cuban Missile Crisis after the Soviet Union directly challenged America’s sphere of influence.
NATO’s Purpose
In this context, NATO proved its worth by countering the Soviet Union and its defensive alliance, the Warsaw Pact. However, after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the West saw an opportunity to take advantage of a severely weakened Russia through expansion.
In fact, NATO’s expansion east, doubling from 16 to 32 member states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union — its purported primary reason for existence — makes clear that NATO now serves less as a collective defense
