Analysis: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has made waves yet again for his questioning of a government official at a Senate hearing — this time, Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The focal point was Paul’s invoking Ukraine’s status as a former Soviet republic, saying of Russian forces that “the countries they’ve attacked were part of Russia.” Some argued that this echoed Russian propaganda — Vladimir Putin has said Ukraine “But Paul’s point was more nuanced: that if Ukraine were admitted into NATO, that could lead to a NATO-vs.-Russia confrontation, and that the idea was provocative to Russia. And, relatively recently, this wasn’t exactly a fringe view.
Paul quickly offered a different emphasis. It wasn’t that Russia had attacked only non-NATO countries, it was that Russia had attacked— the implication being those that countries’ accession to NATO wouldn’t be the same as, say, Poland’s membership in NATO. “It is the fundamental right of these countries to decide their own future and their own destiny,” Blinken said, adding: “And that does not give Russia the right to attack.”
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