woodguru wrote:
Patriots would agree on the importance of defending and aiding their allies, the honor and integrity of the country is at stake when it promises military aid in escalating situations. Ukraine is our ally, we consider it a crucial matter to send military aid to ward off attacks to this democracy by a dictator nation, in this case Russia. Russia doesn't want to take direct responsibility for taking over another country, one crucial to oil and gas supply lines, so it uses the weak subterfuge of using mercenaries so they can say this isn't Russia.
Regardless of whether you take sides and agree with supporting the Ukraine's democracy, or Russian forces is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the United States made a promise to support the Ukrainian efforts to fight off an attack with tanks and well armed mercenaries.
US state department, Intelligence, the pentagon, and congress deemed it crucial to national interests to aid the Ukraine's democracy in fighting Russia off. Congress authorized the funds, and neither the state department or pentagon could figure what the holdup was. While the Ukraine watched Putin gather tanks and forces and waited for the US military to deliver the promised anti tank weapons that would have allowed them to fight off the Russians, one man...Trump, was holding up the delivery of military aid.
The story is why he would do this, why he would defy congress in providing this support when it was not done through open channels at all. Then of course there would be the other monster in the room...
Putin...what do you think Putin thought about the US sending hundreds of millions in advanced weapons such as anti tank weapons?
So Trump slow walks desperately crucial military aid, and the Ukrainian forces are forced to withdraw and Russia overtakes this hotly contested region.
How can we trust this president to fulfill his duties to the country, when he defies congress and pulls something that was so damaging to our ally and benefitted Putin so much? You can wail and cry about Biden and corruption and no quid pro quo all you want, Trump defied the will of this country when it promised military aid and support, and did Putin a huge military strategic favor...nothing changes that or makes any difference.
Now he's pulled military funds from other allied nations that are designed specifically to defend against Russian attacks. There is a disturbing pattern here.
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Care to comment on the US buildup in Poland, at their request, of tanks and artillery units and other forces, as part of NATO? Wasn’t too long ago that O’flim.flam.bama castigated the right for clinging to a “second rate regional power” (Russia) as an enemy that no longer rated being feared by the nuanced and global west. Now, because a guy without a secret decoder ring owns the narrative, the Russians are suddenly re-empowered. Now they are an unstoppable juggernaut that we ignore at our peril. There’s a “disturbing pattern” here all right.............: the ignorance and situational necessity that obliterates history and reason, and causes us to stand, frozen in indecision, in the face of enemies that have had us in their crosshairs for over one hundred years! The mortal threat is not Russia...........it is us!!! We have disempowered our institutions of education and substituted a a system of mental and spiritual fluff. We have created a couple of generations of blank slates.....and.......those of us who should be writing on them are not. Everyone derides “Hillary’s village”, but, I’m afraid we’re living in it.