readuncutThe question worth sitting with: does this playbook travel? Other countries will watch NATO's door stay closed. The lesson Ukraine is welding into factory walls in Munich and air bases in Riyadh - that alliances which survive are the ones where leaving costs something irreplaceable.
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Ukraine just made itself impossible to abandon
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on a Ukrainian acoustic detection system at an American air base in Saudi Arabia, and the reason they are doing this is humiliating for everyone involved except the Ukrainians. Over $1.3 billion in American hardware (a $300-million AWACS aircraft, a THAAD radar,