Putin’s Criminal Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Some Ugly Truths About U.S. and NATO

THERE ARE NO excuses or justifications for what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine. His brutal invasion is a bald-faced act of aggression, replete with war crimes, and is rightly being condemned as such by large numbers of people and nations across the globe. The targeting of civilian populations and infrastructure is a heinous act that belongs in the annals of major nation state crimes alongside the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Many governments of the world have denounced Putin’s actions. But when it comes to the U.S. and its NATO...