Originally Posted by
dneal
Vladimir Putin, having been thoroughly goaded by the Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations, now seems particularly aggressive.
Indeed. The Hitler/Chamberlain comparison is only apt if Chamberlain were sent to refuse to negotiate - as any attempts to negotiate and end of hostilities were promptly ended by dispatching Boris Johnson to do the deed.
The comparison with Nazi Germany is quite apt. The Russians are trying to seize land, population, and natural resources to enhance their wealth and make themselves more powerful militarily. They are also trying to recover former territories to which they claim historical ownership. Forgetting, of course, how that played out for Adolf & Co.
Anyway, this all seems awfully profitable. If there's a 5th column, it's not Russian. It's Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, BAE, Rafael, Thales, etc...
Those defense contractors provide a lot of jobs to a lot of people, a very good thing. They also provide military equipment that provides for our national defense, also a very good thing. Much of that technology ultimately has civilian applications, providing additional benefit.
Those politicians opposing aid to Ukraine are serving overseas interests, and not those of the American people. They are just like the "anti-war" groups from the 1970s, who professed love, peace, happiness and global brotherhood, but were actually puppets of the Soviets. For Republicans to be doing that today, aping the radical left of times past, is inexcusable, and a betrayal of conservative values. They are almost as bad as the Democrats, whose one saving grace is their support of Ukraine.
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