We aren't going to do anything. Left-wing Democrats are pacifists and MAGA World is pro-Russian so this is one of the few issues we have cross-party consensus on. If we were going to actually do something we ought to consider deploying a strong air interceptor capability to Poland (assuming they'd agree) and declaring a no-fly-zone over…
We aren't going to do anything. Left-wing Democrats are pacifists and MAGA World is pro-Russian so this is one of the few issues we have cross-party consensus on. If we were going to actually do something we ought to consider deploying a strong air interceptor capability to Poland (assuming they'd agree) and declaring a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. Ideally this would be a NATO operation but realistically it would only be the US, UK and a few Eastern European countries. This would give Putin some pause that he'd have to risk either invading without air support or taking on the USAF. But as I said there is no political chance of this, so we will impose some meaningless economic sanctions that the Putin regime will easily circumvent with the active assistance of the Chinese and the passive support of the Germans. And the Biden Administration will just make some empty gestures out of the habit of acting like we're still the Leaders of the West but really we're spectators by our own choice. (Spoiler alert: if and when the PRC invades Taiwan we'll do exactly the same thing.)
As I believe JVL has noted in either his pieces, or on the podcasts, the US public is now effectively isolationist. I remain one of the dwindling number of Millennial Third Wayers, but I would posit that you could get near identical statements against war/military conflict from both Ilhan Omar and Thomas Massie's office.
Both progressives and MAGA are often more alike than not when it comes to foreign policy, be it anti-military interventionism or anti-free trade/pro-protection.
As a side comment, I'm thrilled to find someone else who reads War and Peace for Tolstoy's long digressions about the laws of history and military affairs - I thought I was the only one!
We aren't going to do anything. Left-wing Democrats are pacifists and MAGA World is pro-Russian so this is one of the few issues we have cross-party consensus on. If we were going to actually do something we ought to consider deploying a strong air interceptor capability to Poland (assuming they'd agree) and declaring a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. Ideally this would be a NATO operation but realistically it would only be the US, UK and a few Eastern European countries. This would give Putin some pause that he'd have to risk either invading without air support or taking on the USAF. But as I said there is no political chance of this, so we will impose some meaningless economic sanctions that the Putin regime will easily circumvent with the active assistance of the Chinese and the passive support of the Germans. And the Biden Administration will just make some empty gestures out of the habit of acting like we're still the Leaders of the West but really we're spectators by our own choice. (Spoiler alert: if and when the PRC invades Taiwan we'll do exactly the same thing.)
As I believe JVL has noted in either his pieces, or on the podcasts, the US public is now effectively isolationist. I remain one of the dwindling number of Millennial Third Wayers, but I would posit that you could get near identical statements against war/military conflict from both Ilhan Omar and Thomas Massie's office.
Both progressives and MAGA are often more alike than not when it comes to foreign policy, be it anti-military interventionism or anti-free trade/pro-protection.
As a side comment, I'm thrilled to find someone else who reads War and Peace for Tolstoy's long digressions about the laws of history and military affairs - I thought I was the only one!