Sort of like trying to determine degrees of virtue among whores.
Point is that we are elevating Zelensky to hero status and portraying Ukraine as a democracy. Ukraine is not worth one American life nor risking nuclear war over. Biden/Blinken are using Ukrainians as surrogates (read cannon fodder) to weaken Russia and remove Putin. Fighting the Russians until the last Ukrainian standing is cruel and immoral.
My fear is that the MSM coverage of the death and suffering will escalate the conflict further by creating a public demand that we do something. Couple that with the existing economic declaration of war against Russia that will cause great hardship on the Russian people and possible Russian retaliation by means other than military, you have the ingredients for the Law of Unintended Consequences. We are playing with fire.
Some are, but not all. Did we not support Stalin in WWII? Franco in Spain post WWII? Pinochet in 1973? Park in South Korea? Marcos in the Philippines?
You ought to know this, you were in State. We don't have friends, we have interests.
Still, Russia's invasion is something we have to oppose. It is not in our interests to have them swallow the Ukraine.
If Russia is a great power, we, as a great power need to keep her friendly, or at least not against our interests. Putin has invaded, not us. His choice, and yes, I believe it is in our interests to oppose this.
Besides, hasn't our foreign policy been promoting self-determination at the national level since 1919?
Why would we suddenly turn our back on that? It would be the change of the century.
I get the point that Ukraine government has been corrupt. But that word has been repeated endlessly on this forum. What is the end game? What do you think we should do? Join Putin? Urge him on?
Of course, I don't see you supporting any of that.
But it seems you want us to turn our back and walk away, stopping all the sanctions and weapons. That just isn't going to happen anytime soon. Realistically.