The Blob’s Perpetual War

American Conservative ^ | 9/8/2022 | Doug Bandow

[whyilovetexas111]

President Joe Biden has approved another big spending package on arms for Ukraine, this one worth nearly $3 billion. He justified the expenditure with the usual lofty rhetoric: “Today and every day, we stand with the Ukrainian people to proclaim that the darkness that drives autocracy is no match for the flame of liberty that lights the souls of free people everywhere.” This, after toadying up to the criminally aggressive Saudi dictatorship.

Kiev warrants support. But what is the administration’s strategy? To fuel the war as long as governments are willing to fight and people are willing to die? Ukraine already has been ravaged by war. No one benefits from another endless war or frozen conflict.

[whyilovetexas111]

This guy has some really good ideas on national security issues and was Trumpian on those issues years before it was ever in vogue.

[crz]

“War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”

Who said this?

Does not matter anymore with the criminal cabal that inhabits the scum hole known as Washington DC.

[Texan4Life]

They’re trying to bankrupt America and start WWIII imo.

Pending expected congressional approval, about $1 billion of that Military aid will go to Ukraine and the rest will be divided among Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, the State Department said.

It will go to help those countries “deter and defend against emergent threats to their sovereignty and territorial integrity” by enhancing their military integration with NATO and countering “Russian influence and aggression,” the department said

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-antony-blinken-government-and-politics-a1f6b3639c6bb69a98bda153de271d93

[Kazan]

But the U.S. should look after its own interests. A proxy conflict against Russia is foolish—and extremely dangerous, with the constant potential for escalation and expansion. America’s objective for Ukraine and Europe should be peace, not endless war, despite the temptation to use Kiev to weaken Russia.

Agreed. But how do we have here all behind this proxy war? Dozens. They are all enemies of American First conservatism.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

not our monkeys, not our circus
cut off weapons and peace will break out.
we need to stop the invasion on our own border.

[Brian Griffin]

How about an armistance?

No side has to give up a right or claim, but the killing would stop.