Always double down on bad bets seems to have become U.S. foreign policy. From Dr. Joseph Sansone at josephsansone.substack.com:
The United States and NATO have lost the proxy war against Russia sacrificing countless Ukrainians in the process. It was an insane proposition to begin with. Incredibly, after a full-fledged media campaign to turn society upside down, and eventually poison 271 million Americans with C19 injections. The same mass media propaganda machine galvanized support in America and the West for a reckless intervention in Ukraine.
Once the war broke out in Ukraine, rather than seek to deescalate the situation the exact opposite was pursued. On the surface the strategy employed by the West was to fight a proxy war in Russia in order to deplete Russia of its resources and somehow topple Putin. It would appear that the exact opposite has occurred. The United States has depleted its resources while Russia has become stronger. It also appears that the United States and NATO lost this proxy war with Russia to the severe detriment of Ukraine.
Well, at least we can take solace in the fact that this has humbled the American and Western foreign policy establishment. Well, not quite. In fact, they appear to be doubling down amid a disastrous military defeat. It looks like U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has not learned the lesson:
“Ukraine will become a member of NATO,” Blinken said in Brussels alongside Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. NATO foreign ministers met in the Belgium capital to prepare for a NATO summit that will be held in Washington this July.
“Our purpose of the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership and to create a clear pathway for Ukraine moving forward. We’ve done a lot of work on that over the last couple of days here in Brussels, a lot more work to be done between now and the summit, but we will see, I think, at the summit very strong support for Ukraine going forward and its relationship with NATO,” Blinken said.
This same provocative proclamation was made by NATO back in 2008. The idea that such a statement would be made while Ukraine and Russia are at war is mind boggling. Does making such a statement make any sense?
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
Ludwig von Mises