Why Are We Pretending That Germany Is Really In NATO?

Russia hasn’t invaded Ukraine yet, but the Kremlin has already exposed deep divisions in the Atlantic Alliance

Towards the end of the Reagan years, as the Cold War was winding down peacefully, the prominent liberal Washington commentator Michael Kinsley famously defined a gaffe as when “a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” A few days ago, a senior German defense official committed a gaffe for the ages regarding the Ukraine…