Our security force has knowingly and deliberately increased the risk of nuclear war for this bogus geopolitical game.
Should the state be able to tell charter cities to build more housing?īut neither Vietnam nor Afghanistan was right on Russia’s border, just 300 miles from Moscow. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina put it, to “weaken Russia,” in the words of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, has been going better than expected and continues. Instead, the military still stands, if barely, and so the policy of using Ukraine to fight “to the last man,” as Sen. They had presumed the Ukrainian military would crumble and they’d be supporting an insurgency by now. They would bog Russia down and bleed them to bankruptcy just as the Soviets had helped do to the United States in Vietnam and our own government has been helping Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda do to us for the last 20 years in the Middle East. support for the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Instead of negotiating in good faith, the Biden administration said they were looking forward to replicating U.S.
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also began installing anti-ballistic missile systems in Romania and Poland, which are launched from the dual-use Mark-41 launchers, which can also fit Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can be fitted with hydrogen bombs, thus violating at least the spirit of Ronald Reagan’s great Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty of 1987, which President Donald Trump tore up in 2019.Īfter eight years of so-called “low-level” proxy war in the east, Putin demanded the full implementation of the Minsk agreements and a new treaty with the United States promising not to integrate Ukraine into NATO or station missiles there. This led to war in Georgia just a few months later when their American-installed regime attempted to reconquer two provinces lost during the breakup of the Soviet Union. announced at Bucharest in 2008 America’s determination to bring both Ukraine and former-Soviet Georgia, both of which border Russia, into the NATO alliance, just as he had overseen the addition of the Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 2004. Bush and Barack Obama overthrew the government of Ukraine twice in 10 years, with their astro-turfed fake Orange and Maidan so-called “revolutions” of 20 because the people of Ukraine kept voting for the wrong guy. No matter what the War Party claims about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supposed desire to reinstate the Soviet Union or Russian empire, the fact is that this war was provoked by the United States, and - no surprise - particularly the neoconservatives. The United States should end involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war, call for a cease-fire and begin negotiations immediately. Editor’s note: This commentary was originally published in print on May 7 as part of a pro-con debate page.
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