Here’s the irony where two sides can find commonality, which is why discussions should be allowed to mature. At one time, I respected Cheney, but no longer have a favorable impression (reasons aren’t relevant).
This point really belongs under the CO2 thingy heading, because again I find agreement with the global warming alarmists. Putting Putin loving aside, and focusing on a promise the US and NATO made to the Ukrsine after winning a short lived independence from Russia, they were promised protection against invasion if they surrendered their nuclear arsenal. They did, and right or wrong, we failed to honor that commitment. When Russia made overtures to “repatriate” them during the re-emergence of the Soviet Empire, the Obama administration gave them blankets and MREs. When they asked the next administration for 300 million dollars in defensive missiles, the Ukrainian president was asked to pledge that he would investigatecand eliminate the corruption, the funds were released, but that prompted impeachment proceedings (right or wrong).
Here’s the irony that resulted in a horrible tragedy. If they had been supported from the beginning, the Russians wouldn’t have felt encouraged to invade. Even I knew that 50 to 100,000 troops were an inadequate force. When they failed in capturing the airfield, four day and the war woukd be prolonged, because the Russian woukd outrun their supply line. The tragedy is that an estimated 100,000 russisn soldiers are dead, tens of thousands of civilians were targeted, displaced, and murdered. The ecological disaster is mind boggling, while we haggle over electric cars and LED light to save the bloody planet. They sink ships with tons of oils leaching into the waterway. Blow up refineries, lead bullets, rickets, plane sorties burning tons of jet fuel, tanks at 4 miles to the gallon or 4 gallons to the mile. The csrnage and destruction because the riches man in the world needs his dynasty back. And we bicker about a girl crying because the planet is dying, and people flee to the US because of, according to Joe, they’re fleeing global warming. Why didn’t we give the Ukrainians the deterrence we promised to prevent this, and the same thing is going to happen in South Korea and Taiwan. We owe them 18 billion in defense material we can’t deliver, because we simply exhausted our stockpile. Wher is the outrage. It has less to do about democracy than a broken promise. Like the promis to veterans who were told to vacate hotels in New York to make room for migrants. Like the medical care that isn’t available for war heros, because it was diverted for migrants. Do the math: $26k set aside per migrant for 8 million. I do like migrants. They didn’t even ask for it. It was just given to them by good hearted people, God bless em! Just like the schools they closed, or rec center for inner city kids, or parks that become shooting galleries for drug addicts, havens for gangs to butcher people with machetes. Sorry guys. I think about this when we get inti sime superficial jabber about the crystalline reefs that we all love to dive on. I can’t help but wonder if the outcry is for ourselves, because my beech front home that I bought might be under water. Dontvpatter me because I’m a hater. I saw plenty. I don’t hate, but I wonder when Somebody. Anybody will care about what we owe people we factually abandoned. I’m not trying to change your mind, belittle you, or argue. I just have a different PERSPECTIVE! I just don’t have time to explain how I really feel.