If Ukraine is so important and worth risking the destruction of civilization as we know it, why is the country not a NATO member already? If its worth defending then why not make it a full fledged member? Evidently because its not worth WWIII.
Ukraine is a den of corruption and thievery. We don’t even know where all the weapons we send to them are going. We do know that they are speculating in risky investment with some of the money and buying luxury real estate abroad. Gee, what a shock! How many more billions should we send them and for how long?
I understand the problems associated with aggression but we had opportunities to peacefully resolve the status of Ukraine and failed to find a working resolution — becauase of a failure of leadership and pressures from the MIC. Make no mistake, some well connected people are prospering from the ongoing conflict.
What concerns me is that we’re at a point where a miscalculation or mistake could plunge us into a disaster of unthinkable proportions. Is the corrupt backwater that is Ukraine really worth that?
We have become perilously close to igniting WWIII on several occasions since the end of WWII. We’ve been very lucky so far.
Russia isn’t a den of thievery and corruption? Russia’s corrupting influence does not affect the US?
Ukraine isn’t that important in the big picture. It’s a backwater politically. What’s important is the US/NATO projecting strength and not being bullied with nuclear blackmail. Everybody is watching now. Iran. The Chinese Communist Party. Saudi Arabia. Taiwan. How the US responds will in large part determine their future actions.
If they sense weakness and division, as Putin did, they will make war. If nuclear sabre rattling works they will nuke up, too. Sooner or later somebody will use nukes because they will calculate that the west is weak and won’t respond.
In Ukraine the US can set the security framework for decades and kick Russian corruption out of Europe. Or we can have dishonor now in surrendering to a genocidal mass murderer and have our war later. Hundreds of thousands are already dead due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We must chose wisely. With the Kremlin and it’s imperialist ambitions or against. There is no door number 3 here.