Since when have the current admin leaders acted in US & citizen interest?
Anybody notice how when RATs are in power, the world teeters ever closer to the precipice? Anybody notice how when the world teeters ever closer to the precipice that liberals are too freaking stupid and obtuse to recognize they are the problem?
They are weak. And stupid. And weakness always invites aggression.
A stinking pile of the usual crap.
Ambassador Jack Matlock was and is a class act for sure. Many others that worked out of our embassy in Moscow during the last days of the Cold War seem to hold the same views for some damned reason. But what the hell do we know? We are Putinistas.
Only 14 signatories to that letter?
Well, letters signed by experts are no longer in vogue after the latest episode of The 51 Stooges.
Nice source you have there,”Responsible Statecraft”
Here is another article from them “How Donald Trump is Saving the Occupation by Dismantling the First Amendment”
“DECEMBER 12, 2019
Written by
Lara Friedman
What does an antisemitism spewing, Nazi dog-whistling President give his favorite Jewish and Christian zealots for the holidays, after already giving them Jerusalem, settlements, the Golan Heights, the murder of the two-state solution, and the delegitimization of Palestinian national claims, identity, and aspirations?
An Israel exception to the First Amendment, of course.
That’s what Trump’s Executive Order on Combating Antisemitism is, no matter how the White House and credulous, lazy, or dishonest pundits try to sell it.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2019/12/12/how-donald-trump-is-saving-the-occupation-by-dismantling-the-first-amendment/
Excellent. The linked letter is a must read.
“Why did the U.S. persist in expanding NATO despite such warnings? Profit from weapons sales was a major factor. Facing opposition to NATO expansion, a group of neoconservatives and top executives of U.S. weapons manufacturers formed the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO. Between 1996 and 1998, the largest arms manufacturers spent $51 million ($94 million today) on lobbying and millions more on campaign contributions. With this largesse, NATO expansion quickly became a done deal, after which U.S. weapons manufacturers sold billions of dollars of weapons to the new NATO members.
So far, the U.S. has sent $30 billion worth of military gear and weapons to Ukraine, with total aid to Ukraine exceeding $100 billion. War, it’s been said, is a racket, one that is highly profitable for a select few.”
Garland Nixon explains why.
While condemning Vladimir Putin’s “criminal invasion and occupation,” the letter, which notes the serial invasions of Russia by foreign adversaries, encourages readers to understand the war “through Russia’s eyes.”
“The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace in the World,”
We are
This is a proxy war to distract Russia and deplete their logistics to the point they cannot ally with China when we go to war with them...
So, the U.S. should invade to stop it?
51 former intelligence officials
where have we seen this before??
LOL
Swift diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine? How? Under what terms?
The problem with ending the war in Ukraine is that both sides have utterly incompatible minimum results. The Russian Government still is demanding a minimum of additional Ukrainian Territory (not currently occupied). Ukraine is demanding return of all occupied territories including Crimea. Then there is the modern founding myth of Ukraine where a popular uprising drove the Russian army out.
How much less that those stated goals can either government accept and still stay in power?
Too many mouthy experts but no enough common sense or knowledge of Communism.
Russia did the invading of Ukraine, not the other way round.
All it will take is for Putin to nuke a US city and tell Biden to stay out of Russia’s business...
Putin’s excuse to invade in 2014 had nothing to do with NATO expansion. The claim was Russia was defending ethnic Russians and returning its rightful lands to the fold. The 2022 excuse was that he had to purge Ukraine of neo-nazis. It’s incredible that anyone can spout this nonsense. Putin invaded Ukraine for reasons that had nothing to do with NATO. He invaded to bolster a shrinking population of what he sees as “little Russians”, increase resources from a more hospitable agricultural environment, and shore up its fossil fuel and ore industry with Ukrainian oil fields and mines. The idea that we wouldn’t take kindly to Russian troops in Mexico or Canada is a straw man argument. NATO troops are first and foremost troops of independent, SOVEREIGN nations. NATO is not an independent entity that acts as a single unit. NATO actions are not independent of the individual nations that have chosen and REQUESTED to join with a significant series of steps that have to take before they can even ask to join. When Putin suggest Russia join he wasn’t rebuffed. He refused to accept the process with the excuse that Russia was far too important to follow the process that other nations had to follow. Nor was there any significant chance of Ukraine joining NATO. Both Germany and France made no secret that would not approve and without both Germany and France’s approval, there was no possibility Ukraine could have joined. The NATO excuse was never Putin’s. It was concocted by Russian apologists and is bullshit.