A bill to prolong death and destruction

American Thinker ^ | May 2, 2024 | By Edward Lozansky

[Kazan]

I am speaking of a $95-billion foreign military aid package that includes $61 billion for Ukraine.

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The West found a foreign leader ready to serve its interests of weakening Russia by sacrificing the Ukrainian people and their country for money and glory. In the Western media, Zelensky is now George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill together. I doubt that any of them or his heirs would be thrilled being compared to someone who converted his own country into a foreign mercenary legion.

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Provoking, funding, and prolonging the war between the two Christian nations who lived together for over three centuries and who are bound by close historical, religious, economic, cultural, and family ties was never meant to promote democracy, but rather to use Ukrainians as cannon fodder to preserve the geopolitical advantage of the hegemon. Of course, there is an additional incentive to make money for the military-industrial complex, and all those with whom it shares its huge profits, including many members of Congress, think-tanks, and lobbyists.

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Despite constant use of the word “unprovoked,” the current war was indeed provoked by the U.S. and NATO. As with any other nation, Russia does want to take its security interests seriously — in this particular case, to insist that the pledge given to Gorbachev “not to expand NATO one inch east” be honored.

One phone call from Biden to Putin before February 24, 2022, with a pledge to guarantee Ukraine’s neutral status, would have ensured no war. Russia’s other security concerns could be then negotiated in a calm working atmosphere.

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According to Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent, “[t]his decision will only prolong the agony of Ukraine and Europe.”

[everlast]

Ping 🦞

[Kazan]

You're lying. In fact, that promised was archived at the National Security Archive at George Washington University

Washington D.C., December 12, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University<(http://nsarchive.gwu.edu).

Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to shrink:

RUAF Advance Further 12 Square Kilometers | AFU Fails To Stabilize The Front

Big Explosions In Odessa | The Defeat Of The Ukrainians Near Arkhanhelske. Military Summary 2024.5.2

[Petrosius]

A promise is not a treaty. That promise was contingent on Russia behaving. You are always complaining about “poking the bear,” but you turn a blind eye when it is the bear that is doing the poking. NATO did not invade and force itself on the eastern European countries. They sought it because they wanted protection against Russian aggression. Russia’s invasion only cements that desire among the eastern European countries, especially Ukraine.

That being said, I bet Ukraine would sign a treaty of neutrality in a heart beat in return for Russian withdrawal. But Putin will never offer that because of his desire to subjugate Ukraine and bring it back into Russia’s orbit. Putin rejects Ukrainian membership in NATO because it would permanently block his efforts to subdue the country, not because he fears invasion. NATO is never going to invade Russia. Until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine they were barely maintaining enough forces to hold off a Russian invasion.

[Wuli]

Still he is a Putin sumpathizer no matter where he was born.

American thinker lets just about anyone write for their site and they neither get or let you see a bio of the writers.

Who has the guy mostly written for - The Moscow Times,

And all his articles on American Thinker are “bad, bad, bad” western soceties” and poor misunderstood Russia. B.S.