More from Judging Freedom today:

• Larry Johnson : Trump Negotiating Against Himself
• Ray McGovern : What Putin Is Thinking
• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : How the Best Military and Intel Failed

Comment: I want to correct the somewhat inaccurate assumptions regarding Article 5 of NATO Treaty. It requires that a NATO member is attacked first, and then NATO may retaliate. Ukraine is not a member of NATO so Latvia cannot claim that it is defending an attacked member of NATO. Latvia is a member of NATO but it can be argued that by allowing Ukrainian armed forces to use its territory in order to attack Russia, Latvia becomes the original aggressor and Russia is defending itself by retaliating. In both cases, NATO Article 5 does not apply.

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• They’re Deliberately Winding Down America — Here’s the Plan for What Comes Next
• Jiang Xueqin: U.S. Trapped In Iran, Europe’s War Against Russia & a Grand Bargain With China
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