What you don’t seem to understand, whether it’s willful or not, is that the United States is not the leader of the world they have no business being in the Ukraine. But, the Bidens were in there and had such influence that Joe Biden got the prosecutor that was looking into the corruption of his son, he got him fired. What’s going on now is Russia’s looking for evidence of that corruption and we’re not talking about things posted in Pravda or the Russia times, they went to the UN to present a case that the US has been engaging in biological warfare
I’m glad you’re addressing me without insults.
This is the way Free Republic was and should be.
In fact, I do not support the United States being the world’s policeman. I support Trump, agree that Biden is corrupt as Hell, used Ukraine like his own private bank, and Hunter had no business being on any board there, and it was 100% graft to put him there.
You are confusing the two extreme sides on this issue. I do not agree with the total “everything Ukraine good, Putin is the Devil” people here. Do not confuse me with one of them.
I am not.
However, I do not support “everything Russia does is great, Putin is a Christian hero” type either.
I will say that I believe Russia attacked Ukraine for the same reason that Germany attacked Poland in 1939, the Russians attacked Finland in 1939, the Japanese attacked China in 1937 or the USA attacking Iraq in 2003. It’s all about geopolitical empire building. I just disagree with your take that Russia has an overall noble cause to go to arms.
My point was if you are a Ukrainian, you don’t deserve to have the Russians coming into your country and killing people and destroying stuff.
It is the SAME regard I would have if, just because Biden is president and a criminal, another country invades us to “free us” of his rule. He won 2020 by massive cheating. We tried to expose it and turn it back. We—so far—have lost that fight, but we’re not done, and we get to do something about it in November and 2024. We don’t need another country doing it for us. If we can’t fix it ourselves then the only one to blame is us.
Even Putin said, on February 23rd, that Ukraine has no right to exist and is part of Russia.
That is simply not true, and what they did was a violation of the UN charter.
Now, in 2002, we went before the UN to prove our case that Iraq had WMDs, and they finally gave us the green light to invade. THAT was wrong. We didn’t find those WMDs and the whole thing was flawed. Still, when it came to Ukraine, Russia should have put their cards on the table to the UN long before invading the Ukraine. Maybe they would have fooled the UN or not, I don’t know. Still, they should have tried. But I do know that both military actions are/were wrong. As it turned out, Saddam was ruthlessly keeping the lid on worse things such as ISIS. He should have been kept out of other countries, but not invaded.