Commentary On March 12, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Part of her speech included this contentious line: “So, I will say what I know we all say, and I will say over and over again: The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance.” The same quote appeared on the @KamalaHarris Twitter account but was deleted after someone at the DNC realized her speech, as written, suggested that Ukraine is part of the NATO alliance. If that were the case, under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, World War III would already have started. So, the word “and” was inserted into both the transcript and the tweet. They both now read: “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people [and] in defense of the NATO alliance,” thus making them two separate issues. When Fox …
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