Ukraine
It’s important that unlike Afghanistan, the National Security State’s recent 20 year misadventure, Ukraine not be allowed to slip from the American mind, though most likely we will not have that luxury.
Since this travesty began, if you’ve read the NYT, Post, all other text media, watched cable news, and lord save you, listened to NPR, any of the propagandized organs of the National Security State, you owe it to yourself to watch the University of Chicago’s John Mearscheimer’s hour long talk on how we got here, most importantly regarding American responsibility.
As a completely ahistorical society, we conceive events with no context. Certainly, Putin’s criminal actions started the war, but with the tiniest bit of American wisdom this all could have been avoided.
This war has nothing to do with freedom or democracy, after all, what does the DC political class know about democracy? What do any of us know about democracy in the 21st century?
If nothing else, go 52 minutes in where Mearsheimer lists the costs to Ukraine. The needless suffering incurred by the Ukrainian people is sinful. The latest celebrity to flash across American screens, Langley’s little green muppet, has not done well by his country.
America can end this war with talk, just as we could have very easily kept it from starting. The only way this is going to happen is if the American people insists it end and we begin the process of losing what sixty years ago J. Robert Oppenheimer called, “Our rather blasphemous sense of omnipotence.”