What should be done about Russia and Ukraine?

[The Magistrate]

21. I Would Agree With You In Part, Sir

I have never been a particular fan of 'Eastward Ho!' as a NATO slogan.

I am, however, sympathetic to the desire of people who once were part of the Russian empire, whether Czarist or Soviet, to have some assurance they will not be brought once again under Russian economic and political dominion. I think that is an element you leave out of your analysis.

I would point out, too, that Russia has no right, or at least no right beyond that might may confer, to have subservient neighbors, dependent on it politically and economically.

In the present day, NATO continues as one of the armatures on which the project of a European Federation is being gradually assembled: it is the precursor of the Defense Ministry of a united Europe, as the Euro currency and supervisors are the precursor of such an entities Treasury Ministry. As Europe becomes more and more a single economic and political entity, these will become organs of it, in the same way as organelles, once separate beings, persist as functional bodies within a eukaryote cell.