Some of the Ukrainians are good guys, but there is also a large Nazi contingent among the Ukrainian nationalists in the western part of the country. Regardless, my opposition to US/NATO intervention has nothing to do with who is good and bad, but that we are meddling at Russia's backdoor and that this is not our fight. If Moscow or Beijing abetted a coup in Mexico City and sought to align Mexico in a hostile treaty alliance against the United States, we would have wasted no time invading in force and installing a friendlier regime along our border. That has been our policy under the Monroe Doctrine since 1823.
Unless we are committed to going to war against Russia to guarantee Ukraine's independence from Moscow, we should not commit our prestige and treasure to a wasteful defeat. And we should be honest with Ukraine and stop leading them on with false hope of commitment that does not exist.
Some of the Ukrainians are good guys, but there is also a large Nazi contingent among the Ukrainian nationalists in the western part of the country.
There are more Nazis in Russia than Ukraine, and it's Putin and Russia that are behaving like expansionist Nazis.
Regardless, my opposition to US/NATO intervention has nothing to do with who is good and bad, but that we are meddling at Russia's backdoor and that this is not our fight.
Actually Russia's "backdoor" borders a sovereign country, in this case Ukraine. They have no right, certainly no inalienable right to invade their neighbor.
If Moscow or Beijing abetted a coup in Mexico City and sought to align Mexico in a hostile treaty alliance against the United States, we would have wasted no time invading in force and installing a friendlier regime along our border.
Stop it. Obama has done next to nothing in Ukraine. Ukraine was NOT joining NATO, although they certainly have the right to if asked. There was no Ukrainian threat to invade Russia. The Ukrainian people certainly had the right to protest against their corrupt former president Yanukovich, whose security force shot and killed about 100 mostly unarmed protestors. Beyond that the interim government is now gone as free elections, which were agreed to by Yanukovich, have now been held.
Unless we are committed to going to war against Russia to guarantee Ukraine's independence from Moscow, we should not commit our prestige and treasure to a wasteful defeat.
We should supply arms to Ukraine. That's what Reagan would have done. It's called peace thru strength. It's a policy that has a history of working.
We should not do what Obama is doing, which is a policy of doing nothing. Appeasement doesn't work.