Posted on 02/26/2022 3:13:36 PM PST by bitt
As Russia wages war against Ukraine, the debate over how to respond has grown increasingly disconnected from the reality of American power in a world of great-power competition. The political landscape has evolved from the post-Cold War era, when a bipartisan coalition of Washington elites could readily call for the projection of American power in faraway conflicts, especially in Europe, even if the connection to U.S. interests was attenuated. After 20 years of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are understandably weary of foreign entanglements.
Further, there is a growing consensus that China’s emergence as the foremost strategic competitor to the U.S. necessitates a renewed focus on the Indo-Pacific. Voices on the left and right question why America should care about Vladimir Putin’s latest adventurism and why we should commit our prestige, diplomatic capital, military sales and economic well-being to stop him.
Our view is that Washington should take appropriate action to prevent Moscow from subjugating Ukraine. America can’t simply look the other way at the invasion of a sovereign European nation by one of our two great geopolitical adversaries. Such a move would undermine the post-1945 world order underwritten by U.S. power and revive the dangerous practice of territorial gain by conquest. Rank appeasement of Russia would undermine the confidence of America’s frontline allies in the Indo-Pacific as well as Eastern Europe.
U.S. steadfastness against Russian aggression isn’t about perpetuating the “rules-based order” or other slogans of Davos and Munich. It is required because America’s adversaries are constantly monitoring our actions to determine where they can advance. The U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam preceded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran hostage crisis, and the global adventurism of the Soviet Union and Cuba in the 1970s and early 1980s. Last year’s Afghanistan debacle appears to have emboldened Russia, China, Iran.
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“Former NSA Robert O’Brien (@robertcobrien) and former NSC Chief of Staff Alex Gray have co-authored a must-read in the
@WSJ laying out specific recommendations for the United States to respond to #Russia’s aggression in #Ukraine.”
Ukraine is a line drawn on a map. It is not a geopolitical entity. It's creation is a bit like Yugoslavia - we had to put all the odds and ends in a bucket.
Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea were always Russian, whatever the vagaries of administrative boundaries and arrangements under the Soviet Union.
Our view is that Washington should take appropriate action to prevent Moscow from subjugating Ukraine. America can’t simply look the other way at the invasion of a sovereign European nation by one of our two great geopolitical adversaries. Such a move would undermine the post-1945 world order underwritten by U.S. power and revive the dangerous practice of territorial gain by conquest. Rank appeasement of Russia would undermine the confidence of America’s frontline allies in the Indo-Pacific as well as Eastern Europe.
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Actually NATO and Ukraine are violating all kinds of agreements and Ukraine is a cesspit of corruption. Why is Russia an “adversary”? It isn’t the USSR any more.
Shut Russia down.
Don’t let them play in any world sports event.
Shut them down in SWIFT to cut them off from international finance.
DONT BUT RUSSIAN OIL & GAS.
Eliminate Russia from ALL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
STOP ALL FLIGHTS TO AND FROM RUSSIA.
DONT LET THEIR SHIPS DOCK IN INTERNATIONAL PORTS.
TELL THEM THEY ARE DONE IN ALL INTERNATIONAL GATHERINGS.
SHUT THEM DOWN !!!
Primarily announce and then follow through- All restrictions on oil production in the USA are off. Unlimited leasing of oil land on federal land. The truth is the United Sates is financing Putin’s war on Ukraine. We are importing oil directly from Russia and our own ramp-down of oil production has boosted the price per barrel to levels that send great gouts of money to Russia and because Russia’s extraction costs are higher, when the price of oil is returned to 1919 levels oil produces little income to finance Putin’s adventures. He knows that he has to get his conquests now before the possibility that he will have to face Trump again or DeSantis. Xi knows that, too. Once this thing in Ukraine has started it is important that Putin loses with our help which will deter Xi for a while.
Siunds like the goobalisrs are mad at Russia. So who do you trust.. the globalists led by biden n obama.. or Putin.
Bidens n co were about to be wiped out in midterms, due to inflation. Biden out on the day of the invasion warning Amdrica about the costs.
Would they work w putin to create a crisis to maintain power.
Washington is already owned by China 🤪
Screws up the entire thesis
Washington? Maybe not entirely. The Rat Party? Most definitely.
What is hard headed about drilling our oil and making our own stuff?
FOAD Neocons
Bkmk
The people running our deep state are assh*les. I mean that... that's the real problem. We're tired of incompetent 'elites'...
We can see them for what they are - Europeans can see them for what they are and China can see them. We have people in positions of power who got there illegitimately and it shows.
Our government is filled with 'born on thirds, think they hit a triple' incompetents.
In the last thirty years we've gained the reputation of having the dirtiest politicians and 'experts' in the world. Americans with hands out for 'legal bribes'... What's that? Selling 'speeches for $10,000 a minute to Arab audiences where Arabs pay people to sit as audiences so all can pretend a bribe isn't going down.. being encouraged to hire the lowlife family members of power brokers like Hunter Biden - drug addicted whore mongers at best - 'intelligence
' professionals who got their jobs based on legacy to Yale followed by legacy to the CIA,FBI, top jobs in DC... etc etc...
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