UK and Germany back a sustainable ceasefire
So why can’t the United States?
David Cameron is the foreign minister of the United Kingdom. Yes, the same Prime Minister who led Britain into its largest foreign policy debacle since the colonial era.
I disagree with David Cameron on most issues. He was a horrible Prime Minister but is right in calling for a ceasefire.
This leads to where the United States political sphere is so far right wing on foreign relations that we struggle to support Ukraine with enough aid for them to win the war. Our Presidents have consistently thrown Ukraine under the bus, first with the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, which forced Ukraine to give up weapons without the same being done by Russia. In 2012, when Romney rightfully declared Russia as our most important geopolitical foe, Obama incorrectly claimed Romney was living in the past. This was 4 years after the invasion of Georgia, 20 YEARS after the Chechen War, and obviously wishful thinking by President Obama. Obama told Putin directly that Ukraine was not a strategic priority. We threw them under the bus further with the Minsk Agreement, which led to a ceasefire without a total victory for Ukraine.
Not to say European leaders have been perfect. Angela Merkel was the primary reason why Ukraine and Georgia were denied NATO membership in 2008.
The stances of Obama, Merkel, Hollande, and Biden on Ukraine have consistently been weak and have bred a major human rights catastrophe. McCain and Romney might have had horrible tastes in vice presidential candidates and horrible domestic policy proposals, but they were correct regarding their views on Putin.
Biden has consistently gone with the line not to “provoke” Russia. He has denied the long-range missiles to Ukraine which would give Ukraine the tools necessary to defeat Russia and get back Crimea, all while sending Israel more than they ask for.
Ukraine uses the few long-range missiles European nations have given them to blow up warships.
Israel uses long-range missiles to blow up hospitals, schools, and apartments.
The two countries have nothing in common.
Israel is more corrupt, less democratic, and less free than Ukraine. Ukraine does not have millions of stateless people living within its effective borders who are regularly harassed, tortured, and murdered by their occupiers.
Ukraine is a natural ally of the United States.
They couldn’t be more different.
Damn the rankings of Israel; go with how they rank the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which are de facto under Israeli control. That is the true ranking of Israel. Palestine/Israel is ranked lower than Afghanistan on the World Press Freedom Index. If one were to give North Korean leaders their own separate ranking, it would also soar up in the rankings. Israel and Palestine should be combined in human rights rankings.
Russian escalation of wars on their borders violates the sovereignty of Ukraine and Georgia. Biden and Obama’s timidness in their European relations is the root cause of this war.
The right policy is this:
- Deescalate from Israel now. Force Israel to recognize Palestinian sovereignty or give Israeli citizenship to all Palestinians.
- Send Ukraine every weapon we can to ensure they can win their freedom. As soon as they win, grant them immediate NATO membership.
- End visa requirements for European Union citizens. End ESTA.
- This idea that America is an island and the isolationist strain in our politics is fundamentally wrong on both a morality level and construes a deep misunderstanding of both foreign relations and economics.
I made a spreadsheet of 63 of the worst wars and genocides in the history of the world. Wars and Genocides If you sort the list by casualties per year, World War II was the most deadly conflict in the history of the world at 12.2 million per year, not including the Holocaust. The Great Leap Forward was the deadliest democide in the history of the world, with 11.25 million killed per year. The third deadliest conflict in history by casualties per year was the Holodomor, with 7.5 million people killed in only one year. World War I came in 4th place with 5 million per year. 5th place is the Rwandan genocide of 1994, which killed 1.2 million people over 3 months, or 4.7 million per year.
The Holodomor was among the deadliest conflicts in the history of the world.
Russia will do it again if given the chance.
Russia can never rule Ukraine again.
Slava Ukraine.
Read this Foreign Policy Article for more information: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/11/obama-russia-ukraine-war-putin-2014-crimea-georgia-biden/