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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (186457)4/16/2022 5:37:37 PM
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I don’t know what prompted such a personal attack, but I will ignore it.

But not before pointing out that Ukraine’s GDP is slightly higher than Belgium’s and slightly smaller than Romania’s. There are several individual American states that make Ukraine’s economy look like small beer.

And that the underlying root cause for the present conflict lies in Ukraine’s agreement to give up its nukes at the time that negotiations for Germany’s reunification was being negotiated in exchange for a pledge of neutrality. James Baker, then Secretary of State, pledged that NATO would not move ‘one inch’ to the East of Ukraine’s borders. This was of course prompted by Russian concerns that if Ukraine slanted West, its security would be threatened. This was not an unreasonable concern

The pledge not to fiddle in Ukrainian affairs did not happen. The history of the aftermath of the 2014 revolution is too well-known for me to repeat it. Suffice it to say that the pledge was broken. Rather than let the Ukrainians and Russians sort out their own affairs, we interfered.

The dispute is and was local, of absolutely no strategic interest to the US. We should have no dog in the fight.

The way the media has presented Ukraine is to suggest that it is some sort of Eastern European Switzerland, delirious for freedom and democracy. Hogwash. It is as corrupt and autocratic a state as any in the neighborhood.

The one thing we Americans have forgotten is to leave well enough alone unless it really matters. We have in the last few years fought too many wars for the wrong reasons, spending money and spilling blood in futile endeavors. That nonsense needs to stop.

Which brings me to my final point: your diatribe against me didn’t even respond to my point, which is that we should not get involved unless it really matters. And Ukraine doesn’t. There are no economic or security interests at play affecting the US which are worth the huge risks involved.
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