Dozens of scientists appealed to NATO representatives. In an open letter, they called on the Alliance to invite Ukraine to join, reports The Guardian. In their letter, the scholars said that an invitation to join NATO would mean a decisive step away from the policy of appeasement and a return to the rule of international law and the protection of human rights. “The focus on Russia’s alleged ‘Nato expansion anxiety’, and attempts to appease it, ignore Russia’s genocidal propaganda and systematic war crimes in occupied territory of Ukraine, including massacres, mass rape, and torture,” the lette…