Ukraine is the last line of defense before Neo-Soviet Russia and its Communist North Korean and Islamic IRAN allies finish off their deeds of deaths against the West (which includes Israel, Ukraine, Poland, The Baltic States, Scandinavia and many more of America’s allies.
Saying that it’s too costly to defend ourselves / our Western interests against Neo-Sovietism, Communism and Islamism is like saying it’s too costly to fund the police (who will never be able to arrest all the crooks anyway)... Thus, let’s defund the police! Right?
Well, I dont agree with that policy! Such “defund the police/defund our allies” philosophy, would make us slaves.
Slaves to assassins and crooks.
We can’t let that happen.
But we CAN help Ukraine/Israel (thus ourselves and the West) the same way we helped the UK during WW2:
Loans / lend-lease programs.
The UK paid it off the 29th of December 2016.
Thus, it works.
Let’s not forget that Ukraine is officially a very close ally of America since 2008:
THE razor-sharp partnership document is signed here:
https://ua.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/u-s-ukraine-charter-strategic-partnership/
Well argued.
“Ukraine is the last line of defense before Neo-Soviet Russia...”
Just... “Neo-soviet”?? Bill Kristol; izzat you?
There IS, in fact, a dangerous cabal that have dragged us to this precipice, but it’s not “neo-Soviets.” Rather, those who well-and-truly comprise today’s “Evil Empire,” are this noxious nest of nutty Neocon nincompoops who have, for more than 30 years, utterly FAILED to grasp the immensely desirable international seismic shift in geopolitical alignments that was laid before, and rejected by, them after the Soviet Dissolution. Had the West put these nutjobs on “HOLD” [preferably by beating them into unconsciousness with tightly-rolled Sunday Editions of The New York Times and stacking them in a basement custodial closet] and, instead, sanely rejected their freeze-dried Cold War mind frame, by now not only the Ukraine, but also the Russian Federation could be part of NATO, and the collective mass of international cooperation properly trained upon the more pressing global issues that bear upon the survival of humanity: virulent Islamism and the airtight containment of Communist China and its satellite states.
Instead we have this sh** show.
History will record that, when Russians ceased thinking of themselves as Soviets, the greatest failure of Western diplomacy in general, and of NATO in particular, was the cataclysmic failure to also cease thinking of Russians as Soviets. The objection may be raised that it would not have been wise to too-readily accept their sincerity, but this wry maxim is the prescriptive for the case: “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Had we done so, we could have discovered the true depth of the sincerity of Russian overtures of comity and cooperation with the West. Instead, we listened to naysaying Neocons, snubbed and shunned the Kremlin, and an historic opportunity to massively advance global peace and human harmony was flushed down the crapper.
And the flushing continues to this very hour, as those who simply will not entertain the reality that the Russians really did cease being Soviets, have steered US Foreign Policy so as to ensure that now-not-Soviet Russians nonetheless continue to get treated like Soviets; presumably because they might someday so resent these unrelenting insults as to react in some Soviet-looking fashion, whereupon Bill Kristol, the Neo-Con King, can leap to his feet, cry out, “AH-HA! WHAT DID I TELL YOU?” and keel over dead in a smiling fit of giddy, self-fulfilled apoplexy.
If anyplace on Earth really does end up getting nuked, pray to God the Neocons are all at the epicenter of the blast.