Why conservatives oppose the warSubstack, Jan 31, 2023, Don Surber
Patrick Buchanan has retired at 84 after a long and influential career as a writer, TV commentator and presidential advisor (Nixon, Ford and Reagan). He saw through George H.W. Bush and later opposed the Gulf War. He opposes the blank check Washington has given Zelensky in this war.
“For us, the greatest stake in this Russia-Ukraine war is not who ends up in control of Luhansk, Donetsk or Kherson, but that we not be drawn into a military conflict that would put us on the escalator to a war with Russia, a world war and perhaps a nuclear war.
“Nothing in Eastern or Central Europe is worth a major U.S. war with Russia that could go nuclear and cost millions of American lives.”
That last sentence is heresy to the hysterical hawks, but the line rings true for conservatives who, after initial rah-rah support for Ukraine, are having second thoughts.
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The reason conservatives are saying no to Ukraine is as simple as ABC.
A is for America First. Why are we so hellbent on protecting its borders when Washington refuses to protect our borders? Our nation is overrun by illegal aliens, gangbangers and fentanyl that this administration allows to come in through an unguarded.
110,000 Americans died last year from drug overdoses last year, another record.
Put America First. Instead of shipping 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, place them along our border where they would do the most good for us.
A is also for Afghanistan where this idiot president left billions of dollars worth of U.S. military equipment behind when he surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, Now the Taliban is negotiating a sale of that equipment to Russia. U.S. taxpayers likely will pay to arm both sides of this war.
B is for Biden. We have an impulsive and ignorant commander-in-chief who is a compulsive liar who, depending on the day of the week, is a lifeguard, a truck driver, a college professor or a civil rights leader who marched with Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.
Robert Gates, Obama’s defense secretary in the Obama administration, once said that Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Who am I to argue? Gates voted for him, which shows how much he cares about our country.
C is for Corruption.When the Soviet Union collapsed, the smartest con artists headed to Ukraine because that was where the money was. They became oligarchs, who became rich enough to bribe politicians in America and throughout Europe. They attracted America’s grifting class.
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There also are reasons DEF.
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