Here is what the USA should do:
1) The USA should demand a vote within NATO that Ukraine will never join. Historically, Russia and Ukraine were the same country for 1,100 years. NATO membership was always a deliberate, insane provocation motivated by hatred for Russia.
2) Ukraine is a sovereign country despite being part of Russia since 917 A.D. International ships have a right to dock, refuel, visit, and enjoy shore leave in the port of Odessa if allowed by the government of Ukraine. The U.S. Navy should respond to an invitation to dock in the port of Odessa, refuel, resupply, and let sailors enjoy shore leave, of course armed for their own protection. Every ship internationally has that right to dock at a port if invited by the country owning that port. Putin cannot fire in the direction of U.S. naval vessels. And the ships have an international maritime right to dock there.
But, you will say, this is a risk. Yes. Like JFK, it needs to be handled extremely carefully. It must be done with transparent advance warning and open lines of communication. (Can Slow Joe handle that? No.)
This is why nothing can be done until new leadership arrives. So your suggestions are moot.
“Ukraine is a sovereign country despite being part of Russia since 917 A.D.”
Then, like every sovereign nation, that country has a right to plot its own course in the world. If that course includes them wanting to be a part of NATO, then so be it. Let them apply. That doesn’t mean another sovereign nation has to stay in NATO either. They also have a right to exist, and not be invaded.
I think the account of the Cuban Missle Crisis as presented here is crap. We knew the Soviets only had a few hundred nukes and they knew we had thousands. They were bluffing and we knew they were bluffing. They were never going to push any buttons.
I notice that NATO, itself, is off the table. Perhaps the point of the entire exercise.
NATO should have been rethought. The former East Germany is in NATO “defending” other NATO countries with a leaking stockpile of GDR missiles that have dead Soviet batteries in them.
Perhaps Trump would have rectified this if not hit by the Swamp with the phony Steele Dossier. Trump seems to be a fan of reciprocal trade. Germany and other European nations probably should be trading with Russia instead of trying to enter an expanding NATO.
Now, the Swamp is safe, and the rest of us are not.
The Russians have revealed themselves as indiscriminately cruel and brutal. Rocketing and shelling apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, and stores makes no strategic military sense.
Putin — and those tools who obey him — needs a bullet in the back of the head.
I hope ONE Russian, SOMEwhere takes him out.
Yes, yes, he might be replaced by someone even worse, AND vengeance belongs to God — I know that, but I’ll be willing to take that chance. SOMEbody, PLEASE take him OUT - NOW!!
If I EVER gave Russians credit for being a modern, civilized people, I never will again
“In 1962, President John F. Kennedy cautiously but brilliantly managed the United States — nay, the world — through the Cuban Missile Crisis…”
YGTBFKM.
Kennedy nearly blundered us into a nuclear war. He was utterly incompetent. One need read no further than this stupid statement. Everything that follows is suspect.
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Ah, he agreed to Khrushchev's offer to remove Russian missile from Cuba if we would agree to remove our missiles from Turkey. I'm not sure I'd call that brilliant.