Knock. Knock. Who’s there? Ukraine. Ukraine who? You know, the Ukraine that has been the subject of the three MM sessions since the Russian invasion. So why now? Because maybe it’s always prudent to reassess foreign entanglements, given so many over the past seventy years have been like lobster traps: easy to enter; hard to live in; nearly impossible to exit.
How do you spell collateral damage? One of the most sinister terms in the language of geopolitics has to be Proxy War. It makes warfare sound like some sort of video game. Just feed it money and weapons so long as no American blood is shed. An exaggeration? Here are the exact words of Mitch McConnell last week:
“If you look at Ukraine assistance, let’s talk about where the money is really going. A significant portion of it is being spent in the United States, in 28 different states. We’re replacing the weapons that we sent to Ukraine with more modern weapons. So, we're rebuilding our industrial base. No Americans are getting killed in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are destroying the army of our biggest rivals. I have a hard time finding anything wrong with that. I think it’s wonderful that they’re defending themselves.”
That’s it, throw money and weapons into the killing fields, bolster our industrial might (with plenty of pork to the states), all the while upgrading our military. Pax Armamana. Okay, the preceding might be a stretch but it does raise topics for legitimate debate…
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