
NATO is a bulwark against tyranny
Upon signing the North Atlantic Treaty, U.S. President Harry S. Truman declared, “We believe that it is possible for nations to achieve unity on the great principles of human freedom and justice”. Seventy-five years later, as the NATO summit convenes in D.C., the NATO alliance continues to stand as a bulwark against tyranny.
Unfortunately, tyranny is on the march in Eastern Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war of conquest in democratic Ukraine is emblematic of this sad trend. The mass terror and repression in neighboring Belarus, wrought by “Europe’s last dictator”, Alexander Lukashenko, is less frequently reported on.
Lukashenko is known to be Putin’s closest ally.… Seguir leyendo »