Time to Choose What to Do About Ukraine
Townhall,
by
Kurt Schlichter
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
8/31/2023 8:42:59 AM
No one wants to hear about Ukraine again, but we need to talk about Ukraine again. The Republican debate the other week highlighted the problem. And the problem is simple. There are no good answers, but all the candidates are going to have to pick one anyway. This is one giant Slavic Schiff sandwich, and everybody’s got to take a bite.
But there is no point in muttering about how if Biden was not such an incompetent half-wit who had humiliated us in Afghanistan Putin would never have invaded, or observe that Putin never invaded when Trump was in charge. We are where we are, the current situation is a mess.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamboozle 8/31/2023 9:06:21 AM (No. 1546587)
To say nothing of the spillover of those 4 choices into the Taiwan, North Korea, and Middle East theaters.
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#1... You need to add the coming war in Niger which our Africa Command is becoming involved it at the behest of French President Macron who want cheap lithium and other minerals from the old French colonies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 8/31/2023 9:15:21 AM (No. 1546593)
It was months ago…I observed that this spat was following the WW1 model, from which there were no winners, but millions of people died (war and pestilence), and the Archduke remained dead. We have not learned. The New Colossus cries « “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” « and I add, keep it far from us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/31/2023 9:29:52 AM (No. 1546603)
That area of the world has been fought over since forever. The USA has no critical national interest in the area. I believe we are only involved because our military and political leaders need to distract the country from what a horrible job they are doing. We shouldn't have gotten involved and should cease our involvement. There will be no winners, only losers.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/31/2023 9:41:05 AM (No. 1546609)
OP, you hit the nail on the head. My only thought is was this present situation one of the reasons for the unity of purpose we saw in both parties to prevent Trump from winning. How’s that for a tin foil comment?! Was the conflict on the radar prior to the election and the Uniparty knew what Trump’s response would be. They have done worse things to achieve their evil agenda.
I am for a cease fire during negotiations. Both sides will gain and lose but that’s what happens in these kinds of situations. Force the parties to the table and have a come to Jesus meeting. Russia does not invade sovereign countries and Ukraine will not be a member of NATO. Furthermore, make it clear that the US will not be funding anymore wars in the region. We have carried Europe’s water for eight years or so and all that stops now. We will be partners but we will not bear the brunt financially or militarily again. Take it or leave it, but we are no longer the chumps of the world. Our focus is on the USA.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/31/2023 9:42:52 AM (No. 1546613)
Eighty years. I apologize…I did proofread too.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/31/2023 9:52:24 AM (No. 1546619)
We will leave Ukraine the same way we left Afghanistan and Viet Nam. We have ran out of Ukrainians, and there is no support for American soldiers in Ukraine.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/31/2023 10:00:20 AM (No. 1546626)
Time we stopped being the world's police force and sugar daddy. Get out. The Ukraine has no strategic significance to the USA. The billions spent there would be far better spent here. Didn't we learn anything from Vietnam?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 8/31/2023 10:10:59 AM (No. 1546631)
Is there a single member of NATO that has not invaded Russia at least once?
The USA sent troops into St. Petersburg in 1919-1920.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/31/2023 10:21:08 AM (No. 1546643)
Beyond all that will the Democrats be able to rig the 2024 election and get enough voters to keep Biden in office by promising abortion on demand, overtime pay for everyone, and another move to cancel at student loan debt? That’s the question, as if that happens Biden will suck up enough taxpayer’s money for the military-industrial complex to keep the Russia-Ukraine War Going to the last Ukrainian.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 8/31/2023 10:22:38 AM (No. 1546645)
Ukraine is only strategic to Joe and Hunter's bank accounts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
3XALADY 8/31/2023 10:39:56 AM (No. 1546657)
#11 I would add there seems to be a few other electeds (and former electeds -- Christy) who seem to have their hands out also.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
slipstik 8/31/2023 11:27:58 AM (No. 1546727)
Ukraine is what it is largely because the usurper in chief baldly told the Chinese ambassador that we were going to invite Ukraine into NATO soon.
Vlad had already ripped off three provinces from Ukraine and the VERY LAST thing he was willing to accept was Ukraine in NATO.
So Vlad did what he does and invaded. He thought Ukraine would fold up like a cheap hanky, but NO, the usurper in chief, who happens to be owned by Ukraine, came to the rescue and so here we are.
DJT was never owned by anybody and would never for a moment have allowed any of this farce to start.
But when you have stolen elections and usurpers in office.....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/31/2023 11:30:02 AM (No. 1546731)
My opinion as well, #5. As OP notes, there was a fifth option which was to prevent the Great Election Fraud of 2020 from happening in the first place in which case a Trump administration would have had a much better chance of keeping a war with Putie off the table. Of course, Amerika's neo-cons and elitists wanted no part of this or Trump. A sixth option was briefly in play which involved a negotiated peace about three months after Putie attacked Ukraine. But of course, biden the cheater and the elitists despised this option, too.
Fast-forward to today - given KS's four options, yes, all four are bad, but a negotiated cease fire and brokered peace agreement is the least bad and more Ukrainian young men get to live. As of now, 300,000 to 400,000 have already died. Despite this loss of life, a negotiated peace remains a pipe dream - for now. Given the determination of the Ukrainian people, the meat grinder option is more likely to prevail until which time Ukrainian military runs out of soldiers and ammunition, recognizes the futility of going on with the war, and is forced to surrender or Russia somehow collapses into financial, economic, or societal chaos as a result of the war. I don't see the latter happening. Putie (or his successor) is banking on the former.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 8/31/2023 12:07:11 PM (No. 1546759)
The US and all other civilized nations have a very critical interest in the Ukraine/Russia war. It is obvious how viscous, barbarous, heinous, and violent Russia is. They have killed thousands of Ukrainian civilians and destroyed billions of $$ of infrastructure and dwellings. Russia has been invading, taking over, and plundering neighboring nations since the WWII. They are barbarians with nukes. They threaten to use their nukes. Russia is a threat to civilization.
Russia must be stopped.
The people of Russia know this war is unjustified and they are against it. But the government has all the people suppressed with oppressive laws and harsh punishments. Free the Russian people from this tyrannical Mafia government. Now is the time and opportunity to exhaust the Russian nation of its military ambitions. If they aren't stopped now, its just a matter of time until they start another war that may turn out to be WWIII. Stop Russia Now!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
minuteman 8/31/2023 12:21:50 PM (No. 1546766)
In his interview with Adam Carolla, Tucker Carlson suggest that the uniparty will have us in a shooting war with Russia by the election...to control the election results.
https://adamcarolla.com/tucker-carlson-5/
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
AltaD 8/31/2023 12:51:17 PM (No. 1546781)
Each option has a serious downside but #2 (walk away) is the one with the best upside. Time to stop funding Biden's war.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 8/31/2023 3:50:46 PM (No. 1546861)
After 9/11, Ukraine committed 5000 troops to support us in the GWOT. Ukraine was not obligated to do that. They backed us anyway.
And we gave them written assurances of security in return for surrendering their nukes.
I dismiss any course of action that involves leaving an ally out to dry and showing that our word, once given, isn't worth the paper it is printed upon.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 9/1/2023 4:39:19 AM (No. 1547194)
Kevin, Biden is being blackmailed by Zelensky. Stop the money to Ukraine and let the chips fall where they may. Let Zelensky tell the world about Biden corruption.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/3/2023 2:54:54 AM (No. 1548359)
Biden's money launderer and CIA bioweapons lab can be scraped off the face of the earth AFAIAC.
To hell with Ukraine, our war is with Mexico.
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He goes through the four options he sees, and declares none of them good. This mess is all the result of the stolen election.