The US’s March of Folly in Ukraine

American Thinker ^ | March 10, 2023 | Jared Peterson

[Kazan]

This war need never have happened if Kissinger’s, and many others’, proposal for a neutral, non-NATO Ukraine had been accepted by the US in 2021, as Russia reasonably requested, and if Ukraine, at America’s direction, had ceased its eight year, US-sponsored war on the Donbas Russian speakers and Russian ethnics, and had enforced the Minsk II accords.

But the US Military Industrial Complex wanted a war and got one. The object: To bleed and weaken Russia with a Vietnam-like quagmire.

Russia appears to be surviving US sanctions quite comfortably, as new customers pop up in Asia for its natural gas and other vital resources, its ruble remains strong, 80% of its people apparently support their government, Europe’s, particularly Germany’s, economies are in free fall as the cost of US liquified natural gas exceeds the cost of demonized Russian pipeline gas by huge multiples, and as the BRICs develop new trade routes and payment methods in Asia and across the global south, threatening the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

All of this, and the risk of nuclear war with a Russia that does in fact feel threatened by the US Military Industrial Complex’s thirty year pattern of gratuitously aggressive behavior:

*NATO’s relentless eastward expansion, in the teeth of explicit promises by every 1990 Western leader that such expansion would never occur if Russia accepted German reunification, withdrew its troops from Eastern Europe, and dissolved the Warsaw Pact;

*Invitations in 2008 to Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO, well known at the time to be as totally unacceptable to Russia as the Soviet Union’s attempted similar conversion of Cuba in 1962 was to the United States;

*US deep involvement in the 2014 coup that deposed Ukraine’s democratically elected, pro Russian president; US installation of sophisticated weapons systems in the new NATO countries

[ganeemead]

"Putin illegally invades a sovereign country -"

Picture the Crips and the Bloods uniting and taking over LA and then setting up agencies to perpetrate atrocities on the ordinary civilian Angelinos...

Sooner or later, the law would in fact show up and try to do something about that.

And there your goofy butt would be talking about the US illegally invading a sovereign nation....."

[canuck_conservative]

so it’s OK for Ukraine to have nuclear weapons again?

[nickfrost1]

so it’s OK for Ukraine to have nuclear weapons again?==

I consider Ukraine for this matter as something like Iran. SO you see?