The Ukraine.
Civil war in the Ukraine or "Ukraine". Poor Obama must be beside himself in his frozen isolation from the fruits of leadership experience. What to do.....what to do.
Syria's a mess, ISIS marches nearly unopposed across Iraq, the whole region from the Indian frontier with Pakistan to the Atlantic shores of North Africa are seething it seems or are at least ripe for radical Islamic development.
And then there is the Ukraine. And what can America do about it? Perhaps learn a bit more about the history of it before jumping in eyes closed.
Should Americans really get involved in yet another very messy civil conflict we honestly know so little about?
Nope probably not a good idea.
Lets see, transport troops and material ten thousand miles to keep the Russians in Russia and the Russians in the Crimea and the Ukrainians in the Ukraine and the Russians in the Ukraine from all mutually destroying each other.
How on earth are we going to tell them apart? Honestly. They've been inter-marrying for over one thousand years. Rare is the family over there that is NOT mixed somehow. The issues are deep.
Some of the worst atrocities committed against Jews during the last war came at the hands of Ukrainian camp guards. The forced collectivization of the 1920's caused directly the death of millions. Many Ukrainians were unabashedly pro-Nazi. Still others were ardent communists and had no problem sending millions of others off to die in the Gulag's. And now old wounds are reopened. Almost a familiar formula being used here, similar to the Balkans and the former Yugoslavia. The world, the "west" has decided that your country is too big so it's going to be downsized.
And what of the logistics? No doubt the Russians are going to fight like absolute insane men to protect their homes. How hard are WE going to have to fight to dislodge those people off their very own lands?
Their fighter cover will be ready within seconds or a few minutes all bombed up and gunned up. Our aircraft will have to fly to the combat area, possibly hours. Any country that houses US/ Western troops will find itself a legitimate target under the rules of war. What guarantees (That have any chance of being taken seriously) will convince the EU, the West that the US is ready to act?
Civil war in the Ukraine or "Ukraine". Poor Obama must be beside himself in his frozen isolation from the fruits of leadership experience. What to do.....what to do.
Syria's a mess, ISIS marches nearly unopposed across Iraq, the whole region from the Indian frontier with Pakistan to the Atlantic shores of North Africa are seething it seems or are at least ripe for radical Islamic development.
And then there is the Ukraine. And what can America do about it? Perhaps learn a bit more about the history of it before jumping in eyes closed.
Should Americans really get involved in yet another very messy civil conflict we honestly know so little about?
Nope probably not a good idea.
Lets see, transport troops and material ten thousand miles to keep the Russians in Russia and the Russians in the Crimea and the Ukrainians in the Ukraine and the Russians in the Ukraine from all mutually destroying each other.
How on earth are we going to tell them apart? Honestly. They've been inter-marrying for over one thousand years. Rare is the family over there that is NOT mixed somehow. The issues are deep.
Some of the worst atrocities committed against Jews during the last war came at the hands of Ukrainian camp guards. The forced collectivization of the 1920's caused directly the death of millions. Many Ukrainians were unabashedly pro-Nazi. Still others were ardent communists and had no problem sending millions of others off to die in the Gulag's. And now old wounds are reopened. Almost a familiar formula being used here, similar to the Balkans and the former Yugoslavia. The world, the "west" has decided that your country is too big so it's going to be downsized.
And what of the logistics? No doubt the Russians are going to fight like absolute insane men to protect their homes. How hard are WE going to have to fight to dislodge those people off their very own lands?
Their fighter cover will be ready within seconds or a few minutes all bombed up and gunned up. Our aircraft will have to fly to the combat area, possibly hours. Any country that houses US/ Western troops will find itself a legitimate target under the rules of war. What guarantees (That have any chance of being taken seriously) will convince the EU, the West that the US is ready to act?
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