In the fall out from Munich-in-Anchorage, something’s being missed. The bristling boasts that our military are “war fighters” seems curiously absent when it comes to Ukraine.
Ukraine, where there’s the largest land war on the European continent simce the end of WWII. Where there are actual ‘war fighters’ dealing lethally with the regime that our NATO allies regard as our biggest threat (the regime against which NATO was formed).
Ukraine, where for pennies on the dollar, the U.S. has the chance to radically degrade Russia’s war fighting capabilities for years if not decades.
Our lack of resolve, and seriousness, about serving vital U.S. national interests in Ukraine gives the lie to all the blowhard, teeth bared posturing about ‘war fighting.’ There are wars that need to be fought, and won. Ukraine is one. But, very strangely (!),Trump passes it by.
I’m not arguing for U.S. forces to engage in Ukraine. But I am appalled that our govt. doesn’t (1) recognize Putin’s regime as a dangerous enemy of the U.S., and (2) seize the opportunity to hammer that enemy “on the cheap.” The failure to do so will reverberate for decades.
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