Twenty years
of Iraq war and no one paid attention, except military families. Civilians weren’t deploying and dying. Some few protested, but no one really cared. Life went on. It didn’t
affect us.
World governments have rightly decided to support the fledgling democracy of Ukraine
against an invasion from Russia. Read
the history of Russia: The Gulag, Chernobyl… Deaths and destruction resulting from a Russian invasion
Employing
sanctions against Russia will result in gas prices spiking upward, and as a
result the price of consumer goods will rise.
Now we can
expect the population to pay attention – it affects us.
We will hear
an outcry, not just from the right – whiney little subversive bastards they are
- but also from people on the left who are not willing to actually sacrifice to
support democracy when it becomes an inconvenience.
Because the majority is not willing to back a foreign country from invasion when it becomes personal, this action will more than likely put Republicans back in power in 24.
Dominant world powers
historically last for 250 years. Have
you taken a close look at who we are lately?
Karma is not
a bitch, it’s a mirror.
the Ol’Buzzard
I hope we still have a world left to leave to our children.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest problem I have with the Ukraine mess is that while I recognize Putin is a sadistic corrupt egoist until recently the leadership in Ukraine wasn't much better. The country still suffers from remarkably high levels of corruption -- not quite as bad as Russia, but close -- and it's too soon to tell if their current president is actually much of an improvement over the wannabe oligarchs who preceded him in office. Further, Ukraine is a huge country geographically. There is no military solution possible and you know Putin is going to just quietly laugh at the financial sanctions. Russia provides 40% of the natural gas the rest of Europe uses. Does anyone realistically believe those countries are going to do anything that might cause Putin to turn off the gas? Putin's biggest strategic blunder was invading in February instead of November. The prospect of shivering through the winter would have had NATO members capitulating rather quickly. As it is, we're going to hear a lot of talk but not much else. We're also going to hear all the western European countries clamoring for a settlement with Russia as soon as significant numbers of Ukrainians turn into refugees. Ukraine is screwed.
ReplyDeleteAre you familiar with the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comix? Putin reminds me of the cockroach general.