Sorry Joe we did not, “… find ourselves confronted with the ongoing crisis in Ukraine…” We created it, as we have done so many other times in past wars around the world. It’s no wonder Volodymyr Zelenskyy is having a tantrum because he can’t immediately hide under the skirt of NATO.
During the breakup of the USSR in 1991, Russia pulled troops out of Germany because George Bush promised not to move NATO east. Since then, we permitted Hungry, and Czech Republic to enter NATO, along with Poland, where we quickly put our nukes.
Political trust is irrevocably broken due to leaders, who have no idea of their limits. Which includes Zelenskyy, a comedian and actor with a knack for putting himself in the spotlight. It’s the kind of subpar thinking that has failed since Vietnam and the world continues to buy-in, especially when it’s served with tyrannical U.S. influence.
You say America’s bold stance is because, it is morally wrong for Russia to occupy Ukraine. Yet it’s okay for apartheid Israel to commit ethnocide in the Palestinian territory, or for the U.S. to secretly cause civil wars or coups through CIA influenced architectures. You make sanctions sound righteous, when they are as brutal as war on civilian populations. And you pull troops out of Afghanistan as it collapses but fight by proxy, in Ukraine. What is your truth?
Sanctioning Russia into economic devastation, will only force them to join with our enemies. Then, when this war has worn down our military and drained the populous emotionally. There will be an international incident in the south China sea or in the Strait of Hormuz that will actually affect America directly. We will then be flat out of juice.
Prior to the Russian invasion we called Ukraine, a rogue state, a haven for computer hacking and financial corruption. Yet now we give them hundreds of millions to exasperate war. In the end, considering the catastrophic carnage to the country, they might have fared better under Russia. China is communist and its people prosper. Paul Collier said it best, those at the bottom do no worse under communism than capitalism. The real problem he says is, “…psychopaths, and they’re around 3% worldwide…” So, the problem is not just Russia, it is those 3% on all sides.
Face it, America stopping communism is a fear ploy for political control to avoid far more pressing issues on our plant—like our planet! We the people, need to stop accepting bait and switch tactics that avoid the broader issues. You can use PR whitewash and call me a rebel or non-patriot. But let’s take this in for a moment. My wife’s family came to America on the Mayflower. As is she today, all her female ancestors were Daughters of the American Revolution and our family worked hard to honor that and support this country through thick and thin.
Keep foremost in your mind, that this is a country founded by rebels that saw a wrong and fought to make it right. Accepting the status quo went out of style in 1776. The time to see what has not worked and make a change is upon us presently. Slaughter and destruction in the duplicitous name of stopping communism must end or we will have learned nothing from Vietnam—a war we lost in a country that was added to the tourist map. Yes, Joe it is time to eliminate the self-interest of “those 3%”, that wag the dog, and bring this country back to the principles it was founded upon.
Kevin j Palmer
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