"Mission Creep": Katrina vanden Heuvel on Ukraine Joining NATO & U.S. Plan to Send Cluster Bombs

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At today's NATO summit in Lithuania, member countries are expected to debate Ukraine's request to join the military alliance, which would provide additional military support for its war with Russia. Opponents to Ukrainian membership, however, warn that such a move would needlessly escalate what Russia sees as a proxy war with the United States against NATO encroachment on its western border. For more, we speak to journalist Katrina vanden Heuvel, whose recent piece for _The Guardian_, co-authored with James Carden, is headlined "Now is not the time for Ukraine to join NATO."

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