If the U.S. continues to rely on military power alone in Ukraine, the results could be catastrophic. From Daniel L. Davis at nationalinterest.org:
It should be beyond obvious that it is in America’s vital national interest to end support of the Ukraine war as soon as possible, elevate diplomatic engagement immediately, and seek to end the conflict on the best terms possible for Kyiv. Continuing to rely exclusively on military power may lead to a far worse outcome than Washington imagines.
Summary: The ongoing Russia-Ukraine War exemplifies this failure, as the U.S. ignored diplomatic opportunities to prevent conflict, leading to significant loss of life and strategic disadvantages.
-Current U.S. policies continue to support Ukraine militarily, despite the unlikelihood of a Ukrainian victory and the escalating risks, including potential nuclear confrontation.
-A return to diplomatic engagement is crucial for U.S. national security and global stability.
Ukraine War: The Cost of Ignoring Diplomatic Solutions
Diplomacy is all but dead in America today. In its place sits a mindless obsession with lethal military power. Supporters of this unhealthy preoccupation claim it is necessary to keep America safe. Solid and growing evidence reveals the truth to be very nearly the opposite.
Since the abandonment of the diplomacy-first foreign policy that served our country well for the better part of two centuries, America is spending more on its military but getting less for it. (The U.S. Army is the smallest it has been since the 1930s.) It has less global influence than at any time in living memory and is in real danger of stumbling into a European war – one that could spiral out of control and into a nuclear exchange.
Prior to the 2020 presidential election, I published a book entitled “The Eleventh Hour in 2020 America: How America’s Foreign Policy got Jacked Up – and How the Next Administration Can Fix it.” In it, I argued that over the previous two decades, American foreign policy had become “an unqualified failure. If substantive changes are not made,” I warned, “we risk suffering catastrophic loss.” That warning is now getting uncomfortably close to being prescient.
It’s no mistake as a certain odd small hat crowd hates Russia with an all consuming passion for getting kicked out and never conquering it by military means.
Only from within as Ape Lincoln said about FUSA or destroyed from within by quisling traitors.
These things happen when you are joined at the hip with an external nation and they run “your” entire society for their benefit.
People will one day say enough?
Hopefully but hope isn’t a strategy.
Breaking from Conan:
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