[Seruzawa]

Yep. Many are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian. You can tell who has never been in combat. They are the worst war mongers.

[kabar]

Amen. The needless and senseless death and destruction must end as soon as possible. Over a third of the Ukrainian population, 15 million, are either refugees (5 million) or displaced (10 million.) The country's infrastructure has been ravaged. It will take decades to rebuild with the US taxpayer probably picking up a big part of the tab.

We have entered into a new Cold War declaring economic war against the Russian people. We are driving Russia into a closer relationship with China. The global food supply has been disrupted by the war and widespread famine will occur. Ukraine's wheat production accounts for 11.5% of the world market, while Russia's share is 16.8%.

And the US consumer is being affected by the war with higher gas and food prices above and beyond what Biden had already engendered with his policies. Fertilizer prices are skyrocketing. Biden's and the West's sanctions are damaging the global economy disproportionately affecting the developing countries. Is it any wonder that Turkey, Egypt, India, etc, are not going along with the sanctions?

And then there is the thing with our open border....

[Pelham]

That’s always the case. Professional military is usually a good deal more realistic.

Only two Senators voted against Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin resolution that would directly send US combat troops into the Vietnam War.

Gruening of Alaska was one of the two no votes. See if his warning doesn’t sound prophetic in hindsight:

“That means sending our American boys into combat in a war in which we have no business, which is not our war, into which we have been misguidedly drawn, which is steadily being escalated. This resolution is a further authorization for escalation unlimited. I am opposed to sacrificing a single American boy in this venture. We have lost far too many already”