Here is a simple logic that I think helps in understanding a lot of history over the last several centuries.
In 1492, the leaders of Spain of the Mediterranean Basin gave the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus permission to sail. He would land on a new continent, which would be known as America.
Thomas Jefferson, one of the lords of slavery in America studies the civilization of the Mediterranean Basin and gets involved in preparing the Constitution of the U.S. and in declaring the independence of the U.S. from the British Empire in 1776.
In doing so, he and his contemporaries were watching over their shoulders potential hostilities from the Roman Caesars and crafted the checks and balances in the U.S. by way of three branches of government.
NATO was formed in 1949 with the U.S., a state that fought to become independent from the British Empire, as the leading entity in the organization.
As of now, the U.S. has seen 46 Presidents. If some online documents are correct, none of them has either Spanish or Italian heritage whether many clowns in it know it or not.
Today, the Russian Czar, not a Roman Caesar, is asking NATO: Why are you at my doorsteps, please? I would think that any self-respecting Czar would ask this question.
A reluctant David is standing up for his people in Ukraine and is crying for NATO, which isn't showing up at a moment's notice because of its long-term implications. I say reluctant because he was in an entertainment business like Donald Trump was before becoming the President and possibly not well prepared to pick a fight against a determined Czar with whom he could fall back to a position of neutrality as his last resort. He may have had the American dream for his people as if everything in it is glittery like they have been showing it in Hollywood movies. I watched several of them when I was in high school. That glitter got me off guard when I was one day in the center of San Francisco waiting in my car with my family at a traffic light across from the shiny City Hall. I took a glace at it over my left shoulder. A moment later, I noticed a Caucasian man over my right shoulder. At first glance, I thought of his standing there hostile. Then I quickly noticed that he was a homeless person asking for help. It shocked me to my bones. The contrast between a movie experience in a theatre hall when I was in high school and real life encounter in the center of San Francisco is unfathomable.
So, this is a simple logic from the leaders of Spain and explorer of Italy in the 15th century to the founding of the U.S. in the 18th century as an independent country from the British Empire to the organization that it created in the 20th century becoming a tool of hostility against a self-respecting Czar in the 21st century who wants to keep it at bay and, unfortunately, Ukraine becoming that bay for both sides.
Based on a simple logic, if he were alive today, who would Thomas Jefferson stand with in this situation?