There is noting in or about Ukraine that is an essential USA security interest. Other than the desire to see self-determination in Ukraine, what else is there?
"Deny Russia"? The Russians have enormous political, security and commercial interests there and also enormous incentive to protect those interests.
No, I'm not saying it's all legitimate, but I am saying it's REAL.
Inevitably, they win because it's worth more to them. We'd do well to STFU and figure out how we actually meet our existing NATO obligations, over-extended as they are.
Cruz doesn’t say anything until every option is considered, and when he does say something, it is the right thing.
*all you zombies hide your faces, all you people in the streets, all you living in high places, the rain’s gonna fall on you*
We’d do well to STFU and figure out how we actually meet our existing NATO obligations, over-extended as they are.
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This is where the neocons and Obamunists get into bed together and ‘unify’. They need a foreign distraction from domestic decline and the encroaching police state. This is also a great test run on suppressing armed, urban resistance and crushing a relatively Western populace. This is practice for domestic use.
This bogus startup war -is- the Molotov-Ribbentrop accord, but it is between American neocons and Obamunists. The truce won’t hold, as both are determined to be the sole survivor. A pox on both their bunkers.