I appreciate the sentiment @SenSanders, but can’t overlook the contradictions. “We must do everything possible to avoid an enormously destructive war in Ukraine” necessitates using hard power (all means) to attempt to deter a devastating war. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Your rejection of hard power is also inconsistent with your call to accept geopolitical realities, i.e. “spheres of influence.”
And, casting aside self-determination is in deep contradictions with progressive beliefs.
And, casting aside self-determination is in deep contradictions with progressive beliefs.
A rejection of Ukraine’s NATO membership (not even a possibility for years) doesn’t end this crisis. Putin wants Ukraine. Putin will force the issue, even if the U.S. rejects progressive principles such as the “Open Door” policy.
Ukraine, a country of 45 million and the largest in Europe, has agency. It won’t change course on democracy. The population has demonstrated its resolve through two revolutions.
Lastly, it is in large part, do to U.S. and western accommodation, for two decade, that we are on the cusp of a major war in Europe. The bill for a failed policy of accommodation has now come due. The result will be a human catastrophe and enduring geopolitical instability.
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