Biden can’t give the Americans the straight story on Ukraine because so much of it involves things like illegal bioweapons labs, drug and child trafficking, war profiteering, money laundering, and corruption, mostly by Democrats. From Peter Van Buren at theamericanconservative.com:
Biden must tell the American people what we’re doing here, and why.
America needs to hear from its own president, not Volodymyr Zelensky, about what is going on in Ukraine.
America just can’t get enough of Endless War it seems; otherwise why would it keep getting into one of them? Leaving aside ancient historical examples like Korea (still ongoing) and Vietnam (result was a complete defeat of the U.S. after decades of conflict preceded by years of the U.S. nearly completely funding the failed French war effort there) we have the more modern examples of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The former sputtered to defeat for the U.S. after decades of war (counting Gulf War I and the post-war bombing campaigns, which accomplished little, and Gulf War II, which led to empowering Iran in Iraq via Gulf War 2.5). The latter concluding decisively on the TV August 2021 with the symbolically cluster-futzed final evacuation (memories of Saigon.) Each war started with no real practical goal in mind (remember nation building? The War on Terror, i.e., a war against a tactic?)
With that kind of track record you’d think America would take a breather from Endless War, you know, take a few years off to get its head together, maybe work the fentanyl problem, get the economy together so people other than Democratic commentators can see it growing. But no. Just a scant six months after hosing the last Afghan dust off our boots, the U.S. finds itself mired in Ukraine. No clear, realistic goal? Check. Open-ended commitment of U.S. resources? Check. Potential to suck U.S. forces directly into the conflict? Check. Dubious one-man celebrity leader? Check. Unclear how Ukraine fits into our national interest, how much more time and money will be expected to achieve whatever our objectives are, and how much Europe plans to contribute to the war taking place in its backyard? Check.
