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The reasons me and millions of Americans are skeptical about this war:

1. McCain and Graham visiting Ukraine and pledging support for the country before most of us knew where Ukraine was on a map.

2. Biden being put in charge of the Ukraine situation as VP.

3. Victoria Nuland's actions before the "revolution" and the fact that she is always associated with destabilizing the situation in Ukraine.

4. Hunter Biden making millions from businesses in and around Ukraine.

5. Joe bragging about getting a prosecutor fired by threatening to withhold aid.

6. Americans going almost immediately from the end of funding one forever war in Afghanistan to the beginning of funding the next forever war in Ukraine.

7. Zero accountability for where the aid is going and no interest from Congress in establishing oversight of where the money and equipment is ending up.

8. The fact that BlackRock and JP Morgan are already in place to help "rebuild Ukraine." How many billions of dollars will be given to both companies with no oversight.

Everything about this conflict feels like the Ukrainian people are being used and killed for the financial interests of the west. I don't think Americans unsupportive of funding the war view Putin as innocent, as MSM likes to propose. We can be both skeptical of supporting the war and understand Putin's role in escalation. Both sides did little to avoid the war. The Ukrainian people are paying the price in lives lost and the West (mostly Americans) are footing the bill.

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Mike's avatar

I think this is an excellent synopsis.

I might have focused a little bit more in my review on the fact that Crimea is not historically or a part of Ukraine nor has ever contained a demographic majority of ethnic Ukrainians, and that the support we’re therefore giving to Ukraine to reconquer it is arguably questionable from a moral perspective if not necessarily from the standpoint of international legality - which, however, the West was itself quite willing to ignore during the Kosovo and Libya crises a few decades ago. I understand the legal arguments Ukraine is making regarding the restoration of its pre-war territorial integrity but why should US taxpayers be on the hook for tens of billions of dollars to enable Ukraine to take back a territory inhabited by a majority of ethnic Russians since tsarist times and never inhabited by anywhere remotely close to a majority of ethnic Ukrainians, a territory that was arbitrarily transplanted from the Russian to the Ukrainian SSR by an unelected Soviet leader back in the 1950’s without the consent of its inhabitants? I don’t see this as something I should personally support with my tax dollars, nor do I think that if we let Putin “get away with” taking back Crimea, a historically Russian territory, that it somehow follows he’ll want to annex Estonia or Latvia or Poland, i.e., none of which contain ethnic Russian majorities.

The situation in Donbas is less clear-cut than Crimea but there are similar vibes. Perhaps the people living in these territories - all of them, refugees included, need to be asked what they actually want at some point.

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