Posted on 02/25/2022 8:46:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Support Putin support Biden. Both want the destruction of the US.
I used to have respect for The Federalist; now I feel like I’m listening to Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw. Ukraine has an absolute right to join NATO if they wish and anyone with an objection to it needs a Tomahawk to the forehead. Sad.
All True.
Why does the West feel the need to try and figure out if they played a part in what Putin is doing?
Maybe Putin is just a dickhead.
Unfortunately, true and right on the money. But what else would you expect from second rate politicians.
This is false. As bad as Biden was, and as obscene as Democrats’ war-mongering towards Russia was, the West did not abandon Ukraine. Zelenskyy had hoped that he might avoid war, and thought that the presence of NATO members’ troops in Ukraine might provoke Russia, so asked us to stay away.
RE: Ukraine has an absolute right to join NATO if they wish
I don’t think honest person can argue with this. I don’t even think the author does not believe that Ukraine has that right.
But there is also REALISM and TIMING involved. If you’re not willing to defend Ukraine from Russia, you should not be openly encouraging her to join NATO. You could quietly tell Ukraine to wait till Putin croaks before doing so.
America in the West are led by evil idiots.
If anyone in Ukraine thought that the US and NATO would go to war to protect it after we did nearly nothing to Russia when they snagged the Crimea, then they were fools. It’s like the preacher in Blazing Saddles when the angry crowd shot the Bible from his hand: “Son, you’re on your own.”
A good and accurate summary of this NATO-EU-WEF-BIDEN dumpster fire. It’s a rare voice of reason in a sea of warmongering and historical illiteracy. Just like the liberal/neocon tag team lead up to the Iraq war.
This is just more weak Appeasement coming form LiberaTarians.
They are weaker than feckless Joe Biden.
At the same token would it have been Ok for Russia to have a base in Cuba like they did in 1962?
Thank you - Mearsheimer nailed it.
https://twitter.com/ThePr0diga1S0n/status/1485729483151880194
I’ll go further than Mearsheimer - not only did the deep-state and NATO encourage Ukraine. they KNEW it would get wrecked and didn’t care. Ukraine was simply a useful tool to tie-down Germany and attempt to control EU energy supplies. Utterly cynical and immoral.
I look forward to Russian/Chinese missile bases in Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba...
Crimea has been a Russian possession since the time of Catherine the Great [contemporaneous with the American Revolution]. Stalin assigned it administratively to the Ukraine but that does not make it Ukrainian. Our neocons need to stop trying to gip Russia out of what is rightfully theirs and absolutely vital geostrategic assets. If the Russians made such a ploy for say, Florida we have a declaratory policy of using every means available to defend it [e.g. nuclear forces]. Why do we thing Russia would be different?
So does, say Costa Rica have an unassailable right to host Chinese nuclear forces? Should China tomahawk anyone who says differently.
Absolutely. If you support somebody, you have to SUPPOT somebody. All talk, no action.
Getting money from Burisma, firing Ukrainian chief prosecutor, etc.
Biden is fully responsible for this tragedy.
The blood of thousands of innocent is on his hand!
What territorial concessions and why should Ukraine make any?
The only PROVEN strategy that keeps the peace is balance of power, mutual deterrence and Justice for the population. Giving Ukraine full control of the Russian Baltic fleet and dangling NATO membership in Russia’s face is not what any sane person calls a balance of power-that’s a provocation and an act of war. The 6 million ancestral Russians in traditional Russian lands annexed BY Ukraine (courtesy of Lenin) have been marginalized and depersoned by the Zelensky regime. That’s another stabilization courtesy of the West. This is what happens.
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