Few terms these days are as abused as the designation ‘Ally.’ Ukraine, we are assured, is a US ally. The Kurds, too, are supposedly US allies. And, of course, Israel is invariably called one of America’s greatest allies.
Yet there is something peculiar about this designation. According to Merriam-Webster, an ‘ally’ is a “sovereign or state associated with another by treaty or league.” The Cambridge Dictionary says something very similar:
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