High hopes and wishful thinking

The not-so-dynamic duo of Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy graced us with an op-ed in the Globe today, all about how we need to bring NATO to the Arctic to make the Rooskies back off. It's OUR Arctic, after all. In what was essentially a pro-NATO anti-Russia screed, Roxworthy claimed the Ukraine war proved the importance of NATO. Really? Looks to me a lot more like it has proved the impotence, incompetence, and irrelevance of NATO. NATO's war on Russia isn't going very well, in case you haven't noticed. For a year and a half we've been told our erstwhile flunkies in Ukraine need just a few more months and a few more billions worth of weapons, and the forces of freedom and human rights will prevail. We're at 18 months and about $150 billions by now, and by all accounts things seem to be trending in the wrong direction for the Nations of Virtue, the forces of freedom and democracy, etc. But not to worry... a few more years and a few more trillions should make things right...