NATO Needs Ukraine

European defense requires an army. Ukraine has one.

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Mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during military exercises outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, January 31, 2022.

Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters

It is now apparent to any candid observer that Ukraine needs NATO. But it is also true that NATO needs Ukraine.

According to some accounts, at the Tehran conference of Allied leaders in 1943, Winston Churchill told Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that the pope wanted a voice in any post-war arrangements regarding Poland. To this, Stalin reportedly replied, “Oh really? How many divisions does he have?”

Robert Zubrin

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Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the author of twelve books, most recently The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.

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