The author is ignoring that our own State department accomplished a coup in Ukraine during the Obama administration, and that Ukraine has been a huge conduit for international money laundering. I think our own security state is about to be hoisted on its own petard.
The previous Ukrainian president was a corrupt Russian stooge, the Ukrainian people wanted him gone as much as we did. We didn’t stage a “coup”.
You may be right, but the leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt from 2014 is pretty damning. We’ve done this several times throughout the world over the past 70 years.
You may be right, but the leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt from 2014 is pretty damning.
What’s damning about it? I’d have to say that given what Russia has done since, the 2014 coup looks to be a good call for the US. Who knows who Russia would be invading now, if they had been allowed to just take over Ukraine.
CDR Salamander has a great blog, but I prefer his old pre substack format.
He’s not wrong. This is Putin’s one great objective and he is on the record for calling the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest calamity ever faced by Russia. War across all Europe is cold only because it is hot in Ukraine.
Believe them when they tell you who they are.
It is a stalemate at the moment and we need to ask if it is better to prolong the war or to end it and prepare for the future. If our leaders choose to continue the war, then they need to play to win and not make this another forever war.
What should go along with the war against Russia, is that we get our shit together at home. Our debt and deficits are national security threats. Ukraine isn’t a lot of money but we can’t afford more wars unless we cut some of the $2,000,000,000,000 deficits. We can do that and fix the border and military too. These aren’t zero sum problems where fixing one means the other can’t get fixed.
People who support Ukraine should also support doing the hard work at home to enable us to continue having the ability to do so.
Fat chance. We’ll sell them the rope, etc.
Speaking of dismembered countries with just as much historical right to exist as Ukraine, Israel, and Texas, What about Bessarabia? That’s Moldova, Transnistria, and Budzhak, now that EU has babbled about admitting Moldova… The city formerly known as Akkerman is largely inhabited by Russians.
My father’s grandparents were Bessarabian.
They were of a very localized self-identity because the Austro-Hungarians, Russians and Turks used the area and it’s now Ukrainian region to play out their competitive empire-building fantasies.
The author is ignoring that our own State department accomplished a coup in Ukraine during the Obama administration, and that Ukraine has been a huge conduit for international money laundering. I think our own security state is about to be hoisted on its own petard.
The previous Ukrainian president was a corrupt Russian stooge, the Ukrainian people wanted him gone as much as we did. We didn’t stage a “coup”.
You may be right, but the leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt from 2014 is pretty damning. We’ve done this several times throughout the world over the past 70 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE
You may be right, but the leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt from 2014 is pretty damning.
What’s damning about it? I’d have to say that given what Russia has done since, the 2014 coup looks to be a good call for the US. Who knows who Russia would be invading now, if they had been allowed to just take over Ukraine.
CDR Salamander has a great blog, but I prefer his old pre substack format.
He’s not wrong. This is Putin’s one great objective and he is on the record for calling the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest calamity ever faced by Russia. War across all Europe is cold only because it is hot in Ukraine.
Believe them when they tell you who they are.
It is a stalemate at the moment and we need to ask if it is better to prolong the war or to end it and prepare for the future. If our leaders choose to continue the war, then they need to play to win and not make this another forever war.
What should go along with the war against Russia, is that we get our shit together at home. Our debt and deficits are national security threats. Ukraine isn’t a lot of money but we can’t afford more wars unless we cut some of the $2,000,000,000,000 deficits. We can do that and fix the border and military too. These aren’t zero sum problems where fixing one means the other can’t get fixed.
People who support Ukraine should also support doing the hard work at home to enable us to continue having the ability to do so.
Fat chance. We’ll sell them the rope, etc.
Speaking of dismembered countries with just as much historical right to exist as Ukraine, Israel, and Texas, What about Bessarabia? That’s Moldova, Transnistria, and Budzhak, now that EU has babbled about admitting Moldova… The city formerly known as Akkerman is largely inhabited by Russians.
My father’s grandparents were Bessarabian.
They were of a very localized self-identity because the Austro-Hungarians, Russians and Turks used the area and it’s now Ukrainian region to play out their competitive empire-building fantasies.
Nothing has changed.