What causes mixed feelings is the fact that Ukraine is a very corrupt country that the democrats and the deepstate use to launder money among other things.
“What causes mixed feelings is the fact that Ukraine is a very corrupt country that the democrats and the deepstate use to launder money among other things.”
Exactly.
“What causes mixed feelings is the fact that Ukraine is a very corrupt country that the democrats and the deepstate use to launder money among other things.”
All that is true. But what I think has conservatives siding with Ukraine is that there was no justifiable reason for Russia to invade Ukraine. Ukraine never attacked Russia (indeed, it was the other way around, and that started in 2014). Ukraine seeking membership in the EU? NATO? Well, can you blame Ukraine for that? Yes, I understand that Russia fears being “surrounded” by NATO, but there is no way NATO CAN surround Russia. It is simply an excuse.
Russia is an insecure and paranoid country (but not without reason, given that it has been attacked throughout its history). Perhaps that is why it has been a wholly untrustworthy country for...hell, probably forever. Maybe Russia is untrustworthy because it doesn’t trust anyone else.
There is much to admire about Russia, and the Russian people. There is also much to condemn. But, when it goes on the warpath, it needs to be met head-on.
I wish people could get along; but it is not in human nature to do that. No other creature, animal, or organism is as dangerous as man; none is as treacherous. So, Russia and Russians are...well, human. That being said, we love and protect and defend our own, no matter what. It was ever thus.
Bingo. I don’t support either side they both suck in their unique way. If somebody doesn’t support Ukraine 100% the leftists think that means you automatically support Putin. I believe Ukraine’s leaders were complicit in setting up the 1st Trump impeachment on top of being unbelievably corrupt so I despise them for those things and I don’t really care how the war works out for them. It amuses me as somebody who spent some Army time in West Germany during the Cold War, training to fight the Russians, that I am now a Russia lover according to some leftist standard. I loathe American leftists much more than I do either the Russians or Ukrainians.