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🧵As I watch the brutal war unfold in #Ukraine, I need to make the following point for those who believe that somehow the US and its allies have full agency when it comes to what happens there-how it ends. True, since the US is the principal source of aid, we have influence. 1/6
But in the final analysis it is #Ukraine's fight for its sovereignty, for its very survival as a nation. Ukraine is an independent actor with its own interests/priorities. Never forget that it is emphatically NOT (as the Russians have tried to portray it) a US/@NATO puppet. 2/6
I find it odd to say the list that so many armchair strategists presume to prescribe the end game to #Ukrainians or talk about "trading land for peace." I suppose it's easy to draw lines on the map and give away someone else's land. In wonder what if this was their country? 3/6
In many a Western capital when it comes to Ukraine there seems to be a disconnect between the rhetoric about norms and values on the one hand, and the extent to which gov'ts are willing (unwilling?) to go to affirm the principles we claim to hold so dear as key to who we are. 4/6
#Ukraine has reminded us of the critical importance of the principle of national self-determination, for without it there can be no freedom to craft one's political and economic institutions. The price they have paid and continue to pay means that agency is ultimately theirs. 5/6
The West may grow weary of supporting #Ukraine (Putin is betting on just that), but I doubt that the Ukrainians will give up the fight even if our aid decreases. We can influence the course of this war, but it will be the Ukrainian people who decide when and how it ends. 6/End
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