By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-30 11:56:17 | Updated at 2024-10-02 00:43:19
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Victor Davis Hanson: Our Ukrainian War Narrative—Paradoxes, Obsessions, and Disconnects
American Greatness ^ | 30 Sep, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 09/30/2024 4:43:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Why does the Biden-Harris administration deify Zelensky and Ukraine but demonize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel?
About half of America sympathizes with Ukraine’s plight and wishes to arm it.
After all, Kyiv was attacked preemptively by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, in an effort to decapitate its government and turn the country into a Russian satellite, perhaps similar to the status of a Belarus or Chechnya.
The heroic ability of the Ukrainians to save Kyiv and to stop the Russian assault beyond the occupied Donbas and Crimea has hinged on Western weapons deliveries, specifically from European NATO countries and, to a far greater extent, the United States.
But now, after a reported 1 million combined dead, wounded, or missing Ukrainians and Russians (the actual figure is probably far higher), the war remains deadlocked with no end in sight.
Putin serially threatens to break the static front with tactical nuclear weapons. The Europeans are tiring. And no one in the United States has come up with a strategy to push back the Russians from either their February 2022 demarcation points or their post-2014 occupation of Ukrainian borderlands.
The result is a lot of disconnects, paradoxes, and mysteries about the war, the Biden administration’s role in it, and the general geostrategic landscape surrounding the conflict.
Ukrainian Election Interference?
Americans are demonized by the Uniparty elites for having doubts about their blank-check support for Ukraine. And while the American people are mostly anti-Putin, they are not always pro-Ukraine.
But why is that so?
For one, we know that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.
Even leftwing Politico reported that Ukrainians in the U.S. gathered opposition research on Trump campaign officials and passed it to the Clinton campaign and thus likely her appendages in government.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: victordavishanson
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1 posted on 09/30/2024 4:43:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
Ukraine seems to be a money laundering operation for leftist politicians who are drawn to corruption like flies.
2 posted on 09/30/2024 4:43:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: texas booster
3 posted on 09/30/2024 4:44:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: MtnClimber
Excellent article by Dr. Hanson. Bookmarked.
The hundreds of billions of Dollars sent over there are especially galling when just a fraction of that spent on Hurricane victims and a border wall and enforcement would have reaped dividends.
4 posted on 09/30/2024 4:51:34 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: MtnClimber
It is worth noting that Putin and Russia support Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
5 posted on 09/30/2024 4:55:31 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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