The news is filled with idiotic suggestions -- people calling for the assassination of Putin (war crime), others calling for a no fly zone -- in other words lets start WWIII with Russia, and on and on.
So I would like to go on the record now with what I think is the proper response to this.
1. Right now we see that we shouldn't have stopped providing weapons to Ukraine, Biden put a stop to this a year ago. Based on that I would say we need to fully arm Poland and Romania so they are able to defend their borders. NATO needs to fully ramp up their defense spending. Step 1 -- we contain this thing.
2. We take refugees from this war. We have had 2 million come across our southern border this year, we can certainly take some genuine refugees. Let's send ships and planes. Do our part in the humanitarian crisis.
Genuine refugees? I mean, there are many genuine refugees from South American countries... There are many countries whose government is toxic and corrupt and this is not mentioning the power drug cartels have... I would want to leave there too if I was a citizen. Perhaps they aren't in active war with a neighboring country, that doesn't disqualify them from being legitimate refugees though.
3. Every dollar we spend to defend the Ukrainian border and to beef up security in Poland and Romania needs to be matched with money to finish our Southern wall. It is absurd to tell us that the Ukrainian border is sacred to America but our own border is not.
Nope, the DEFENSE department is meant to defend our nation... not to nation build. God bless the Ukraine, but this is not our fight, just as what's going on in Yemen and Taiwan is not our fight either. For some reason, people are more outraged by this... I don't suppose it has to do with Ukraine being mostly White Christians?
4. We are currently at war with Russia. We launched an economic warfare that has been devastating to 140 million Russians. So then Biden needs to have a frank and open discussion explaining why he did that, what vital national interest this is protecting. If Russia retaliates we need to know why we are being attacked because at this point Russia would appear justified in retaliating.
Putin is justified in attacking Ukraine when talks of Ukraine joining Nato are brought up. We have Kamala Harris talking about how she supports it days before the actual attack. I guess people here must not have brushed up on their history with Cuba/Russia. I wasn't alive then, but there is no way in hell we would allow Russia and Mexico to join an alliance together. We would stop that fast, and rightfully so.
5. What is going on with these bioweapons labs? The US state department just confirmed at least half of Russia's story, China has also confirmed it. We need to know why we would put research facilities in the Ukraine? This isn't MIT, or Cambridge, or even a major German facility. What was the reason US military would put bioweapons research facilities in Ukraine instead of a NATO country or the US?
Good question. Speaking of China, are we going to be consistent with our outrage China as we are with Russia? Why do we turn a blind eye to China for allowing this to happen in addition to all their other wrong doings, especially with Taiwan but then you want to go after Russia?
6. This war is showing to me that the links between Biden, Hunter and Ukraine are really significant and need to be investigated. I expect Senate hearings on this to get to the bottom of it.
For sure.