I agree. There is no national security interest for the U.S. in Ukraine. This is Europe’s problem. Let them deal with it. We aren’t the policemen of the world.
I’ve had trouble trying to figure out, what is the American national interest in what happens in Ukraine.
I can understand we oppose Putin invading Ukraine, but, what is our interest in this conflict?
What of those who push World War II analogies, in which Putin is like Hitler, and Zelensky is like Winston Churchill? Are those people right?
But if they are right, then will we eventually get dragged into the war directly, as happened in World War II?
What lessons of history should we apply to this conflict?
If Putin is really wanting to put the old Soviet Union back together, is that our concern to the extent that we would intervene as Putin uses military force to accomplish that goal?
And if this is a proxy war but some people just don’t see it, why have we decided to participate in such a proxy war? If we stay out of it altogether, then we wouldn’t be in a proxy war, would we?
And what about the role of the United Nations in mediating conflicts? Where is the UN in all this? What has the UN done, if anything, to try to end this war?
Just some thought that occur to me, trying to understand our role, and who the good guys are, who the bad guys are, and if it’s in American national interest to be involved at all.