David Krayden: Continuing the War in Ukraine Is Not a Viable Foreign Policy for Canada or NATO
Commentary
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares for the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania this week, he should speak wisely.
Amid all the strained and fabricated hoopla surrounding Trudeau’s “surprise” visit to Ukraine in June, almost all of the media missed one important moment: Canada becoming “a guarantor” of Ukraine’s safety. And those media that did catch the declaration are surely missing the point. What does this really mean? How does Canada guarantee Ukraine’s safety when it is at war with Russia? Does Canada, and hence all of NATO, need to declare war on Russia in order to fulfill this commitment? Would that not effectively put all of NATO at war with Russia? Yes, it would….