We don’t have a vital national interest just like we didn’t have one in Iraq and in waging war against the Taliban…but we obviously have SHARED INTERESTS with Ukraine in degrading the Russian military. We have literally spent trillions preparing for a war with Russia and now you don’t want to spend billions degrading their military. Plus we have greatly benefited from all of this as America is now the LNG export leader and thus energy dominant. Furthermore, the Military Industrial Complex creates solid union jobs that don’t contribute to inflation and so Biden has threaded this needle perfectly while Putin gets the “George W Bush Award” for being a dumbass on a global scale!
No, we spent trillions preparing for war with the Soviet Union, an entity that hasn't existed for 32 years. Russia is a major power in its part of the world, but in no way has the manpower or resources to be considered a major threat to Europe, let alone the United States, unless some dementia patient starts WWIII.
If you’ve been voting for Republicans this century then you’ve been voting for representatives that believe Russia is a major “geopolitical foe” and they’ve been pretty vocal about even though I agree Americans don’t really care about foreign policy except in the 2004 election. We are a representative democracy and Republican and Democratic senators believe Russia is a major geopolitical foe and they have spent trillions of taxpayer dollars this century preparing for a confrontation with Russia…the money has been spent and now McCain and Romney look prescient but now you don’t want to spend a few billion more?? And the “sacrifice” is over because energy hasn’t been expensive for months AND exporting LNG is great for our trade deficit and great for creating working class jobs in America.
Problem is author lives in fantasy land along with everyone else that trusts mainstream "news" [propaganda].
Here's the unfortunate reality-
1. The victory mechanism in Ukraine was the political implosion and demolition of Russia via CIA networks, we know now chiefly Prigozhin's network. Ukraine was supposed to humiliate Russia while Prigozhin stabbed them in the back and caused their total, bloody collapse. This was to be followed instantly with inviting Ukraine to NATO and marking a US driven peace treaty while Russia disintegrated (literally). The war was supposed to be won by now and the political cost of paying for Ukraine negligible.
It failed, utterly, because the Russians wisely conserved resources and went over to the defense. Without Ukrainian victories Prigozhin looked like a guy with his you know what sticking out in the wind. From there everything unraveled and now Washington looks foolish to everyone who doesn't rely on BS like WaPo or DC think tanks to determine reality.
2. The U.S., or more true, MI6/CIA runs most of Europe's political networks. Bribery and blackmail is bread and butter in any democracy, all you have to do is read the true history of democracies/republics in Europe, check out the history of the Polish Republic for example. Today, most of Europe is MI6/CIA vassal territory and they will always act like vassals. They have to be whipped to do our bidding but always drag their feet when executing. Left to their own devices the Europeans simply won't deter Russia. They'll cooperate with Russia, leaving much of US control over European political systems in ruins.
3. British capital (with Rothschilds at the top) drives US intelligence, financial and political priorities. China is a backwater to London because it's on the other side of the globe. The once again US colonies are dumb pawns to be manipulated wherever British capital feels threatened. Europe will always be the core, Asia the periphery.
Not to say China isn't coming for the US. It absolutely is, but we are London's buffer, and we're a bigger more distant buffer than central Europe.
From our perspective Putin has already lost—the Russian military is degraded and Putin is a pariah in the West and American LNG has replaced Russian piped gas AND natural gas isn’t even expensive!
You’ve got the wrong standard—funding Ukraine doesn’t require a “vital national interest” because we aren’t sending boots on the ground that require huge footprints with forward operating bases. Military actions that are force projection such as enforcing no-fly zones and Navy ships on the other side of the world and Special Operators training foreign fighters in security force assistance only require a military action to be in our national interests.
So containing Saddam by enforcing a no-fly zone is in our national interest…invading Iraq to depose Saddam would require a vital national interest and the military operation didn’t rise to that level and so it should never have been undertaken.
Perhaps if Biden admin actually helped Ukraine rather than "just in time" barely enough, this business might be over. Whether Ukraine is still a totally corrupt nation can be debated. I find winding my way through well placed propaganda is more than difficult. It does seem clear that troop morale favors Ukraine "victory" eventually with an awful lot of dead troops to pave the way.
If anything supping Ukraine has reveled huge holes in US munitions manufacturing. Quite worth fixing.
The USA has no national interest in Ukraine, full stop.
We don’t have a vital national interest just like we didn’t have one in Iraq and in waging war against the Taliban…but we obviously have SHARED INTERESTS with Ukraine in degrading the Russian military. We have literally spent trillions preparing for a war with Russia and now you don’t want to spend billions degrading their military. Plus we have greatly benefited from all of this as America is now the LNG export leader and thus energy dominant. Furthermore, the Military Industrial Complex creates solid union jobs that don’t contribute to inflation and so Biden has threaded this needle perfectly while Putin gets the “George W Bush Award” for being a dumbass on a global scale!
No, we spent trillions preparing for war with the Soviet Union, an entity that hasn't existed for 32 years. Russia is a major power in its part of the world, but in no way has the manpower or resources to be considered a major threat to Europe, let alone the United States, unless some dementia patient starts WWIII.
If you’ve been voting for Republicans this century then you’ve been voting for representatives that believe Russia is a major “geopolitical foe” and they’ve been pretty vocal about even though I agree Americans don’t really care about foreign policy except in the 2004 election. We are a representative democracy and Republican and Democratic senators believe Russia is a major geopolitical foe and they have spent trillions of taxpayer dollars this century preparing for a confrontation with Russia…the money has been spent and now McCain and Romney look prescient but now you don’t want to spend a few billion more?? And the “sacrifice” is over because energy hasn’t been expensive for months AND exporting LNG is great for our trade deficit and great for creating working class jobs in America.
Great article.
Problem is author lives in fantasy land along with everyone else that trusts mainstream "news" [propaganda].
Here's the unfortunate reality-
1. The victory mechanism in Ukraine was the political implosion and demolition of Russia via CIA networks, we know now chiefly Prigozhin's network. Ukraine was supposed to humiliate Russia while Prigozhin stabbed them in the back and caused their total, bloody collapse. This was to be followed instantly with inviting Ukraine to NATO and marking a US driven peace treaty while Russia disintegrated (literally). The war was supposed to be won by now and the political cost of paying for Ukraine negligible.
It failed, utterly, because the Russians wisely conserved resources and went over to the defense. Without Ukrainian victories Prigozhin looked like a guy with his you know what sticking out in the wind. From there everything unraveled and now Washington looks foolish to everyone who doesn't rely on BS like WaPo or DC think tanks to determine reality.
2. The U.S., or more true, MI6/CIA runs most of Europe's political networks. Bribery and blackmail is bread and butter in any democracy, all you have to do is read the true history of democracies/republics in Europe, check out the history of the Polish Republic for example. Today, most of Europe is MI6/CIA vassal territory and they will always act like vassals. They have to be whipped to do our bidding but always drag their feet when executing. Left to their own devices the Europeans simply won't deter Russia. They'll cooperate with Russia, leaving much of US control over European political systems in ruins.
3. British capital (with Rothschilds at the top) drives US intelligence, financial and political priorities. China is a backwater to London because it's on the other side of the globe. The once again US colonies are dumb pawns to be manipulated wherever British capital feels threatened. Europe will always be the core, Asia the periphery.
Not to say China isn't coming for the US. It absolutely is, but we are London's buffer, and we're a bigger more distant buffer than central Europe.
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From our perspective Putin has already lost—the Russian military is degraded and Putin is a pariah in the West and American LNG has replaced Russian piped gas AND natural gas isn’t even expensive!
You’ve got the wrong standard—funding Ukraine doesn’t require a “vital national interest” because we aren’t sending boots on the ground that require huge footprints with forward operating bases. Military actions that are force projection such as enforcing no-fly zones and Navy ships on the other side of the world and Special Operators training foreign fighters in security force assistance only require a military action to be in our national interests.
So containing Saddam by enforcing a no-fly zone is in our national interest…invading Iraq to depose Saddam would require a vital national interest and the military operation didn’t rise to that level and so it should never have been undertaken.
Perhaps if Biden admin actually helped Ukraine rather than "just in time" barely enough, this business might be over. Whether Ukraine is still a totally corrupt nation can be debated. I find winding my way through well placed propaganda is more than difficult. It does seem clear that troop morale favors Ukraine "victory" eventually with an awful lot of dead troops to pave the way.
If anything supping Ukraine has reveled huge holes in US munitions manufacturing. Quite worth fixing.