Getting Killed for Nothing

NATO wants us dead

In an ideal world people with idiosyncratic ideas don’t get listened to, or they don’t get jobs. It’s not like anyone is cancelling them, but they’re just choosing not to pay attention to them, so their ideas can wither on the vine or be disregarded.

And ridiculed.

Which brings me to the months-long bad habit of Ukraine’s best friends, including on Team USA, who can’t seem to get it through their thick heads that Russia wants to kill us — all of us — as quickly as possible.

On Friday, at the conclusion of a meeting at Ramstein AFB of the dozens of nations supplying the war effort, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, blurted out what he said last fall.