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I am not an expert on international affairs or military matters. I would rather consult with Captain Crowhill on this question, but CC understands what can and can’t be said to people like me (with no security clearance). <\/p>\nI am not an expert on international affairs or military matters. I would rather consult with Captain Crowhill on this question, but CC understands what can and can’t be said to people like me (with no security clearance). <\/p>\n
Anyways, this is just my opinion, based on the little that I know from following this story for the past week. And if Churchill couldn’t predict Russia’s actions, I’m certainly not going to claim that I can. Still … here’s what I’m thinking. <\/p>\n
If you had asked me two weeks ago whether Ukraine should join NATO, I would have said no. It’s an unnecessry provocation. We have no clear national interest in Ukraine, and I don’t want my sons or yours dying to protect the place. <\/p>\n
However, it’s become clear that Putin doesn’t need much provocation to go on a mad rampage. He invaded Crimea, and now he’s invading Ukraine, probably because in both cases he sensed weakness and a lack of resolve on the part of the west. Not exclusively from the U.S. (Obama and Biden), but they certainly contributed to the problem. Obama was a self-important amateur who thought he could bring about peace by being cool and saying nice things, and Biden is a doddering old fool who’s been wrong on every issue for his entire life, and is only barely functional now. <\/p>\n
Trump is a gauche, loud-mouthed troublemaker, and I don’t like him, but at least he projected strength and resolve. Or, more accurately, compared to Obama and Biden he did. Which is a low bar. And for those of you who still don’t understand how anyone could have or can support Trump, look around. Set mean tweets<\/a> on one side, and war on the other, and maybe you’ll start to get the picture. <\/p>\n Nobody can know what would have happened, but I suspect Trump would have armed Ukraine before<\/i> the invasion. <\/p>\n The world is a harsh place, and weak men make hard times. People who cry over mean tweets and stupid stories about bleach should get back in their pajamas and stay in bed. <\/p>\n Putin wants to be a tough guy, so the west should get tough. We should ship as many arms into Ukraine as we possibly can. <\/p>\n It’s horrible to do this on the backs of the people of Ukraine, but Putin has to pay a steep price for his actions, and unfortunately it’s falling on them. <\/p>\n Have things changed to the point that we should admit Ukraine into NATO? Probably not, but that idiot in the White House makes concessions preemptively. Putting NATO membership back on the table might be a useful bargaining chip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am not an expert on international affairs or military matters. I would rather consult with Captain Crowhill on this question, but CC understands what can and can’t be said to people like me (with no security clearance). Anyways, this is just my opinion, based on the little that I know from following this story … Continue reading “Arm Ukraine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}