Ross Douthat thinks we should fold on Ukraine.
No one outside of the American foreign policy establishment has “we should be willing to go to war with Russia to protect Ukrainian democracy” on their list of priorities.
“One of the hardest challenges in geopolitics is figuring out how to conduct a successful retreat. We witnessed that reality last summer in Afghanistan, when the Biden administration made the correct strategic choice — cutting our losses instead of escalating to preserve a morally bankrupt status quo — but then staggered through a disastrous withdrawal that wounded Biden’s presidency and laid bare American incompetence to a watching world.
Now we face the same problem with Ukraine. The United States in its days as a hyperpower made a series of moves to extend our perimeter of influence deep into Russia’s near-abroad. Some of those moves appear to be sustainable: The expansion of NATO to include countries of the former Warsaw Pact was itself a risk, but at the moment those commitments seem secure. But the attempt to draw Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit, the partway-open door to Ukrainians who preferred westward-focused alliances, was a foolish overcommitment even when American power was at its height. …”
Many an empire has fallen for the sake of maintaining its “credibility.”
The most famous example was the British Empire which collapsed after Neville Chamberlain’s guarantee of Poland triggered World War II. Britain wasn’t in any position to do anything to save Poland, but it was in a position to transform a regional border conflict into a global conflagration.
“War is a Racket”- Smedley Butler
The Biden Administration
The Global Homosexual Pederast Empire
Democratic Party Family Values!!!
Governed by the shitstain in Joe Biden’s blue suit
That’s all you need to know
That’s all Folks
“to protect Ukrainian democracy”:
Democracy indeed. Khazar-kraine was created by a U.S.- and Israeli-managed coup and colour revolution, and is as far from democracy as it is possible to be. Run by a handful of mostly Jewish oligarchs who are protected by anti-Semitic Neo-Nazi militias and by Israel and the U.S., living conditions are so bad that millions have fled (and are still fleeing) mostly to the Russian Federation, and the Donbas region seceded, and Crimea (which is not Ukrainian, but was added to Ukraine by Khruschev) voted to join the Russian Federation. Corporate mainstream media will never tell you the truth about Ukraine.
Andrei The Saker compiled this list of today’s news headlines (with links on the site):
US, European Stock Markets Tumble at Opening As Tensions Rise Around Ukraine
NATO Sends Additional Ships, Fighter Jets to Eastern Europe Amid Ukraine Tensions
White House discussed plans to send up to 50,000 troops to Eastern Europe
NATO announces major new deployment
US Navy displays 2 supercarriers in Philippine Sea drill
Chinese Air Force alarms Taiwan with massive flyby
NATO Puts Forces On Standby, Deploys More Jets & Ships – Russia Responds With 20 Warships In Baltic
Futures Tumble On Rising Fed Fears, Geopolitical Tensions
Kremlin: Ukraine Amassing Troops on Contact Line in Donbass in Apparent Preparation for Attack
Iran, Russia and China joint military drills
Russia sends fighter jets to Belarus for drills
Kiev actively preparing for forceful resolution of Donbass conflict, DPR says
Bank of Russia suspends currency buying due to market volatility
Russian stocks sink 8%, ruble plunges to 14-month low as conflict fears intensify
Dow tumbles over 600 points early Monday as Wall Street extends decline ahead of Fed decision, earnings wave
U.S. Orders Family Members of Embassy Staff to Leave Ukraine
Israel said preparing for potential need to evacuate Ukrainian Jews in case of war
EU to weigh €1B aid package for Ukraine
Diplomat slams ‘report’ of Xi asking Putin not to attack Ukraine as jaw-dropping fake news
China slams Bloomberg’s fake news about China-Russia relationship
We already stole their gold reserves. I guess Shlomo wasn’t done looting yet.
“Note that this is not a question of what Ukrainians deserve. Russia is an authoritarian aggressor in the current crisis; Ukraine is a flawed democracy but a more decent regime than Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy. When we gave Ukraine security assurances under Bill Clinton, opened the door to NATO membership under George W. Bush and supported the Maidan protests under Barack Obama, we were in each case acting with better intentions than Moscow in its own machinations.”
Pure jewshit. The bottom line is Boosh I solemnly promised the Russians that the jewS wouldn’t take one step toward Russia’s borders. The word of the whores who run this global golem mean less than nothing, therefore they have no right to pretend outrage when other countries defend their vital interests.
There is no bigger hypocrite than the United States of America.
The US motto when it comes to starting wars in other countries: DO as we say, not as we do.
“Biden Floats Sending Thousands Of Troops To Eastern Europe.”
As I said in a previous post.
Look for the Visegrád Countries, adjacent to Ukraine, to block any overland movement of U.S. heavy maneuver elements into Ukraine. And for Germany to quietly decline to participate.
Several other countries might decline to participate, too. And surprisingly, the U.K. might be one of them. Nobody in Europe, except maybe the Poles, wants a war.
USZOG troops may find themselves cut off and alone in Eastern Europe, and Biden’s handlers may find themselves politically defeated and humiliated. But they’ll have Biden as a scapegoat.
Probably won’t happen, anyway.
at this point I’m wondering what the next ZOG globohomo false-flag is going to be. Do another airliner massacre then blame it on the Russians? Or something really (((Hollywood)))-style grandiose like Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11? Time will tell.