Ukraine will be toxic for decades.
“What it all comes back to is a very short-sighted desire for political scoring.”
We told them after they disbanded the Warsaw Pact that we could not expand NATO, not one inch. And we did that, we lied.
We can have a peaceful future by standing with international law and against all cross-border wars of aggression.
With the escalation ladder, you only go up or down. There is no side to side.
People are still living with these wars. And they must be taken care of.
This consistent line of violence directed against the Iraqi people to achieve American political aims had been established for decades.
It’s very concerning because we have this very recent evidence of how hysterical and unhinged U.S. military decision-making can be.
Withdrawing support for Ukraine has become a major political issue in both the U.S. Congress and now on the presidential campaign trail, and it is causing divisions as well in European capitals.
Policymakers making assumptions about the use of military force and how quickly that military force will achieve political objectives. We’ve seen over and over again how some of these assumptions are faulty.