Fellowship of the ring

"Time to get going NATO. Let's get the Ukraine voted in so we can send them some real help. These people are in deep trouble right now, and help NEEDS to be on the way. Sorry Vlad - the cavalry might be coming."    

My, oh my! Look what is happening over in Europe! It seems the slumbering, have been awoken, and are now starting to roar. In particular - Germany. NATO, the left over organization from the Cold War, was becoming as feckless as the UN has become. Donald Trump (when President), as much as told NATO that. Many countries had annual dues in the rears, their contribution of hardware was spotty, and this once fine organization, was becoming just a coffee klatch club.

Who is NATO right now? Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. Did I leave out Ukraine? Yes. They wanted in, but had not yet been admitted. Now that might change. Along with Finland and Sweden coming in also.

Who are these nations? Some large, some small. Some rich, some not as rich. Some always free, some recently freed from the Soviet Union. Who are they now? I like to think of them as the "Fellowship of the Ring". Just like in the Tolkien novel(s), these are a bunch of different people, united against the monsters from Middle Earth, who are here to kill or enslave them. Only in real life, the evil one is not Sauron - it is Putin. And there is no Mordor in Middle Earth - it is Russia.

Actually, we may owe some degree of thanks to a couple of folks for bringing this "Fellowship" together. What couple of folks would that be? Donald Trump, who called NATO out for what they have become, and - Vladimir Putin. Putin has become the motivator, the reason, why nations would want to join NATO - and have the aegis of protection that Article 5 provides. 

Here is my question to Putin. Are you going to nuke the Ukraine if NATO votes them in? Or are you just going to nuke Brussels (headquarters for NATO). Or Vlad, will you go for the "Full Monty" and nuke everyone? Do all those nukes make a little man like you feel like a big man? Sorry Putin. There are more of us freedom loving folks, than tyrants like you. You are yesterday's news. Nobody cares about you anymore. You are no longer the boogie man that Europe once feared.

Time to get going NATO. Let's get the Ukraine voted in so we can send them some real help. These people are in deep trouble right now, and help NEEDS to be on the way. Sorry Vlad - the cavalry might be coming.