Once again, the American Deep State and the international foreign policy blob are scheming to take foreign policy into their own hands and reject the policies supported by voters and their duly-elected president.
They're doing this to Save Democracy, you understand.
The U.S. and other Western countries are considering transferring to NATO a U.S.-led multinational group that coordinates the shipment of weapons to Ukraine, one of several new proposals that could help maintain the flow of arms to Kyiv under a second Donald Trump presidency.
During the NATO foreign ministerial meeting in Brussels Wednesday and Thursday, officials are expected to discuss a range of options, including gradually moving the organization -- called the Ukraine Defense Contact Group -- into the alliance's control, according to three European officials and a U.S. official with knowledge of the internal deliberations. The goal would be to finalize the move at the NATO leaders' summit in Washington in July, one of the officials said.
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Transferring the group to NATO would be a significant move toward cementing Western support for Ukraine's war for the foreseeable future, amid Europe's fear of the return of Trump to the White House. In the near term, domestic politics in the U.S. and other countries is already threatening to cut off funding to send Kyiv additional weapons.
Formalizing the group within NATO would go a long way toward protecting support for Ukraine from changes in U.S. and Western governments, experts said -- and particularly from Trump.
"There's a feeling among, not the whole group but a part of the NATO group, that thinks it is better to institutionalize the process just in case of a Trump re-election," said Jim Townsend, a former Pentagon and NATO official. "And that's something that the U.S. is going to have to get used to hearing, because that is a fear, and a legitimate one.
"Pulling this under NATO kind of isolates it from a Trump presidency, or even from a U.S. that might get distracted by China and can't keep it going or can't get his own funding act together," he added.
Mitch McConnell, for his part, says he's staying in the Senate to fight for the promiscuous foreign interventions that have served us so well this century.
Despite his plans to step down as party leader, McConnell said, "I'm not leaving the Senate." He added, "I'm particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party and so many others as well."
McConnell mentioned Ukraine's fight against Russia, a cause to which the US has allocated tens of billions of dollars.
"The symbol, lately, is 'are we gonna help Ukraine or not?' And I think it's extremely important that we do that," McConnell said.
Some people thought the "symbol" was whether or not we're going to defend the American border, but you disagreed.
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McConnell said that he finds it "more troublesome" that others appear to be "heading in that direction, making arguments that I think are easily refuted."
He added, "We're not losing any of our troops, the Ukrainians are the ones doing the fighting. If the Russians take Ukraine, some NATO country would be next and then we will be right in the middle of it."
Ah -- the Domino Theory. It just gets more and more compelling every f*cking decade.