The Bystander Effect is Crippling the US-NATO Response to Ukraine

Each day of inaction forfeits more of the moral high ground

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The US and NATO response to Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine looks more like Bystander Effect than it does principled foreign policy. Each Allied countries’ strong rhetoric is insufficient as their inaction to effect any change on the ground that will…