Kinda wrought up about US support for Ukraine? Why? I do not mean why it is wrong in your view for the US to support Ukraine, but how did you come to that view and why does the issue matter to you?
This is a sincere inquiry and is not meant as an insult or trick question. Think of it as if I am asking why you love, or hate, or do not care about golf.
When this whole thing started, I tried to understand the reasons behind it. My research led me to learn about the plight of the ppl in the Donbas and the atrocities committed by the Azov Brigade against their fellow Ukrainians who unfortunately were culturally Russian-Ukrainian and wished to continue their Russian traditions and language. However, Kiev refused to allow it. Over 14,000 ppl died as a result of the conflict in the Donbas, mostly civilians, between 2014-2022 and the western media never really covered it.
The ppl in the Donbas had a referendum for autonomy in 2014 which Kiev agreed to abide by, but they didn’t so the fighting escalated after that. The Russian-Ukrainians asked Russia for help and they supplied food, medicine and probably artillery covertly for a few yrs. However, when the talk of NATO expansion, another broken promise by the West, began in earnest, they finally decided to step in to help the ppl in the Donbas AND to push back on Western aggression via NATO.
That’s pry more than you wanted to hear about my reasons, and I know the war hawks on this thread will try to call into question everything I wrote in their quest to keep the plates spinning in Ukraine. I wish they could have worked out a negotiation to end this war in April 2022 but our State Department put an end to that, which is another thing that made me go “hmmm.” Why wouldn’t they want peace…other than there are huge sums of money being made by multiple entities and they won’t allow the spigot to be turned off yet. It certainly has nothing to do with the Ukrainian or Russian ppl.
I’m also suspicious when I see the public being manipulated into the cult by slogans, flags, and sob stories about “the poor Ukrainian ppl” on 60 Minutes. I usually take the opposite side when I feel like I’m being handled by the media. It’s not my first rodeo.