One of the strangest things about the American response to Ukraine has been the willingness of the Left and the establishment Right to discount completely that the war is heading toward a rendezvous with ever-deadlier weapons and staggering fatalities-even as we witness increasing nuclear threats from Vladimir Putin.
Proxies Versus Balloons
- While we discount the nuclear dangers of a paranoid Putin reacting to the arming of our proxy Ukraine, the brazen Chinese sent a surveillance balloon across the continental United States with impunity.
- Only after public pressure, media coverage, and the Republican opposition did the Biden Administration finally drop its increasingly incoherent excuses, and agree to shoot the balloon down-its mission completed.
When and How Did Russia Enter Ukraine?
- Russia did not just enter Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
- It was not until 16 months after Obama was reelected in his "last election" that he completely canceled a long-planned major U.S commitment to Poland and the Czech Republic, a system that might have been of some value during the present conflict with Putin.
Who Did Not Arm the Ukrainians?
- After 2014, why didn't the Obama Administration arm the Ukrainians to the teeth? Why, after all, did they not do so when Putin invaded in 2014 and again in 2022
- If we truly seek to navigate an end to Russian aggression, the beginning of our wisdom would entail how exactly we got here in the first place-and require us to learn from our disasters
Why Are Our Arms Depots Depleted?
- There would be broader support for Ukraine's military aid if advocates were transparent on the following 10 issues
- The United States will be as firm and deterrent vis à vis China as it is now belatedly with Russia
- We will acknowledge that Ukraine is a mess because Vladimir Putin between 2009 and 2016, and again in 2021, concluded that the United States either would not or could not deter his aggression
- Just as we attempt to help to protect the sovereign borders of Ukraine, so too must we consider just as sacrosanct our own airspace and our southern border
- All those in government and the media who demand more weapons for Ukraine, after the war ends, with the same zeal must demand immediate increased arms production to ensure their own country is as well protected as Ukraine
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