Yes, a war against one is a war against all, and, sorry to say, we are substantially responsible for this one.
What?!, many will ask -- how so?!!
All we have to do to realize this is to put ourselves in the other fellow's shoes, as Bernie Sanders, God bless him for this, said recently.
How did we react when Russia pushed hard into our lo…
Yes, a war against one is a war against all, and, sorry to say, we are substantially responsible for this one.
What?!, many will ask -- how so?!!
All we have to do to realize this is to put ourselves in the other fellow's shoes, as Bernie Sanders, God bless him for this, said recently.
How did we react when Russia pushed hard into our long-declared sphere of influence in the Americas by installing nuclear missiles in Cuba? -- which for us was a matter of vital strategic interest?
'nuff said?
If not, then to be more specific, how could we have expected Russia to allow what they see as our encroachment into their sphere of influence -- which for them is a matter of vital strategic interest?
Moreover, speaking of vital interests, compare the casualties: how many people did we lose in the Cuban missile crisis?, and how many millions did they lose in the huge invasions from Western Europe by France and Germany?
How then could we have failed to recognize the truth of Russia's clearly stated security concerns, addressed them at the table, and thereby protected the people of Ukraine from invasion?
Our own wiser leaders warned us about this very thing decades ago.
The point is that it should be up to neither Russia, the US, nor NATO to decide another nation's sovereignty or fate. Ukrainians should have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not to join the Western security alliance. And the majority of their people after the Soviet Union collapse, notwithstanding the separatists, have already made their decision: They broke away from Russia for good and someday hope to join NATO; fck Putin!
How we think things should be is often not how they actually can be right now. So IMO the point is that we need to do our best to deal with things as they actually are -- and it seems to me that what great powers regard as in or not in their vital strategic interest gives us the best gauge we have of how they're going to react when push comes to shove.
Oh, great, "manifest destiny." Let the Ukrainians become like the pariah Palestinians and the pariah Native Americans. Surely poor threatened Putin will have a nice Gaza or res. for them.
Daphne, re "manifest destiny", a term used to justify imperial expansion(!), where do you see it or anything like it asserted or even implied in what I've posted here?
Yes, a war against one is a war against all, and, sorry to say, we are substantially responsible for this one.
What?!, many will ask -- how so?!!
All we have to do to realize this is to put ourselves in the other fellow's shoes, as Bernie Sanders, God bless him for this, said recently.
How did we react when Russia pushed hard into our long-declared sphere of influence in the Americas by installing nuclear missiles in Cuba? -- which for us was a matter of vital strategic interest?
'nuff said?
If not, then to be more specific, how could we have expected Russia to allow what they see as our encroachment into their sphere of influence -- which for them is a matter of vital strategic interest?
Moreover, speaking of vital interests, compare the casualties: how many people did we lose in the Cuban missile crisis?, and how many millions did they lose in the huge invasions from Western Europe by France and Germany?
How then could we have failed to recognize the truth of Russia's clearly stated security concerns, addressed them at the table, and thereby protected the people of Ukraine from invasion?
Our own wiser leaders warned us about this very thing decades ago.
The point is that it should be up to neither Russia, the US, nor NATO to decide another nation's sovereignty or fate. Ukrainians should have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not to join the Western security alliance. And the majority of their people after the Soviet Union collapse, notwithstanding the separatists, have already made their decision: They broke away from Russia for good and someday hope to join NATO; fck Putin!
How we think things should be is often not how they actually can be right now. So IMO the point is that we need to do our best to deal with things as they actually are -- and it seems to me that what great powers regard as in or not in their vital strategic interest gives us the best gauge we have of how they're going to react when push comes to shove.
Oh, great, "manifest destiny." Let the Ukrainians become like the pariah Palestinians and the pariah Native Americans. Surely poor threatened Putin will have a nice Gaza or res. for them.
Daphne, re "manifest destiny", a term used to justify imperial expansion(!), where do you see it or anything like it asserted or even implied in what I've posted here?