Why is Ukraine of any concern to the US?

Credit: BBC
Credit: BBC

Even forgetting the rampant hypocrisy of the US getting all sanctimonious because Russia is making moves in Crimea, given that the US routinely invades other countries, why is what happens in Ukraine any of our business? What can the US possibly hope to gain by blundering into an area it knows little about, has few if any strategic interests, and has no convenient place nearby to stage troops from? Maybe Ukraine is just not our fight.

In the era before we got our Pacific port in 1848 and in the 166-year interval since then, the security and safety of the American people have depended not one wit on the status of the Russian-speaking Crimea. Should the local population now choose fealty to the Grand Thief in Moscow over the ruffians and rabble who have seized Kiev, what’s to matter!

Worse still, how long can America survive the screeching sanctimony and mindless meddling of Susan Rice and Samantha Power? Mr. President, send them back to geography class; don’t draw any new Red Lines. This one has been morphing for centuries among the quarreling tribes, peoples, potentates, Patriarchs and pretenders of a small region that is none of our damn business.

2 Comments

  1. You obviously have no idea what is going on in Ukraine and what it is all about. It is about global politics concerning a democratic country that is trying to be a part of EU not another US-type Near East oil war. It is about the world balance and global safety. Putin’s Russia can not be allowed to do whatever they want, breaking international laws and invading another country in Eastern Europe. Get your information straight and stop being ignorant saying that is none of your business. Similar ignorance of the USA and other Western countries started World War 2. You really do not want this in XXI century.

    • Educate yourself properly before you spout such bs. Do you really think the US cares about democracy? LMAO. They have other interests there. If democracy were such a big concern, then Mexico would be a huge issue right now.

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