Washington Doesn’t Want Peace in Ukraine

[mystery-ak]

Washington Doesn’t Want Peace in Ukraine
 If history is any guide, we will look back at this moment with regret once the passion of the hour has passed.
By Matthew Boose
March 24, 2022

The United States is now overwhelmed with propaganda pushing for Americans to “stand with Ukraine” in its war with Russia. It is not enough to wish the people of Ukraine well. The media, Big Tech, and both political parties have made being a partisan of Ukraine some kind of moral duty. Those refusing to get swept up in anti-Russian hysteria can expect to be condemned as traitors and agents of Vladimir Putin.

Contrary to the claims of self-righteous talking heads and keyboard warriors, it isn’t “treason” to question how supporting a foreign nation at war with a nuclear state serves America’s interests. Without robust debate, sound policymaking on such a vital matter is impossible.

What is Washington hoping to accomplish in Ukraine? Whatever it is, the Biden Administration is prepared to do everything short of inciting World War III to make it happen.

In addition to waging scorched-earth economic war, Washington is sending billions of dollars’ worth of heavy armaments into Ukraine. While this policy is being called moderate and restrained, or even “weak” by many chickenhawk Republicans, these are escalatory steps that promise to draw out and inflame the conflict, not resolve it.

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[mountaineer]

 

[DefiantMassRINO]

The Dems need the tail to wag the dog until November midterms.  If there is peace, they lose their energy inflation boogey man.

Don't look here at our domestic Global Climate Change agenda.  Look over there at the very, very, very bad man, Mr. Putin.

[Free Vulcan]

The Dems need the tail to wag the dog until November midterms.  If there is peace, they lose their energy inflation boogey man.

Don't look here at our domestic Global Climate Change agenda.  Look over there at the very, very, very bad man, Mr. Putin.

They have also been overtaken by the woke virus and become rabid, needing to fight and destroy any perceived enemy in their lust for total power.

Putin is the convenient vehicle for the moment, since they can't quite yet commit genocide against the deplorables.

[mountaineer]

If the Biden administration wanted any kind of peace in Ukraine, don't you think Blinken would at least give his counterpart in Russia a call? A text? Something?

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA ....

To avoid getting locked in a dangerous cycle, our leaders will have to grow up and expand their thinking beyond “Putin is Hitler” platitudes. Diplomacy will require, yes, “appeasing” Putin a little and recognizing that he has rational strategic interests. The West is quick to dismiss Russian grievances with NATO expansion as nothing but a pretext for imperial ambition, but the West has made no serious effort—despite repeated warnings—to restrain its own imperial ambitions in Putin’s backyard. It doesn’t take a “Putin apologist” to understand that Western meddling in Ukraine has been needlessly provocative, and that it poses an obvious, logical threat to Russian security.

But narcissistic and unserious Western leaders have retreated into delusional self-flattery. Unable to believe or respect that Russia has its own interests, they have told themselves a story that Putin is “crazy” and, having attacked Ukraine for no apparent reason and without assessing the risks of an invasion beforehand, he is now facing imminent demise.   But as newly emboldened neoconservatives trumpet Putin’s downfall, sanctions appear to be strengthening his support at home, not sapping it.

Meanwhile, the United States is staking its financial dominance over a country that has no vital U.S. interest and, in the process, pushing its two greatest competitors, Russia and China, closer together. Biden has been left begging foreign dictators for oil. Saudi Arabia won’t even pick up the phone. Who’s the crazy one, again?

[Right_in_Virginia]

While warmongers in Washington distract our attention, America continues to fall apart. The immigration problem that has plagued our nation for decades has never been worse. As the United States devolves into something resembling a Third World country, Americans have been asked—or, really, told—to stomach the highest gasoline prices of their lives for the sake of Ukraine. How long can we expect to pay this price? Would it kill us to worry about our own country for once?

[Free Vulcan]

The author really nailed it. This whole thing is a FUBAR cluster that we need to keep at arms length before it stabs us in the eye.

Meanwhile, we have a narcissistic d**k waver who's trying to be the alpha dog while being a few bricks short of a full load.