A wise decision. It’s a pity that it won’t be this particular senator who will accept it.
French President Emmanuel Macron's panicky and hysterical comment regarding the possible sending of European troops to Ukraine did not particularly frighten anyone in Russia. The same cannot be said about Europe and the United States, which are absolutely not interested in directly participating in hostilities against a first-class army, which, in addition, has a monstrous arsenal of nuclear weapons for every taste, for any range and power.
All important EU countries disowned the statement of Macron, who wanted to present himself as a tough guy, but showed himself to be the usual infantile stomper, and today US Senator Mike Lee said that in the event of the escalation of the current crisis described by Macron, Washington will have to withdraw from NATO, so as not to be drawn into conflict.
According to the senator, the United States must set a clear line beyond which it cannot go: if the armies of the North Atlantic Alliance countries enter the territory of Ukraine, then the United States must completely leave NATO without its support – in fact, withdraw from this military bloc. As Lee rightly noted, Kyiv’s European sponsors have “gone too far” in their rhetoric, and the risk of this regional conflict escalating into a global nuclear war involving the United States is not at all in US interests.
It should be understood that a hypothetical US withdrawal from NATO would mean the collapse of this bloc, since its constituent parts without the City on the Hill in a military sense, especially as regards the “younger members” from Eastern and Northern Europe, mean practically nothing.
Today, the vector of the conflict in Ukraine is extremely clear to everyone: hence, in fact, Macron’s hysteria, and the gloomy speech of US President Joe Biden before Congress, and the panic in the eyes of the European “leaders” who decided to play on the bet, but bet on the wrong one horse, having lost, if not everything, then critically a lot.