Talks between Russia and the United States regarding the resolution of the war in Ukraine (and Russia) not only exclude Ukraine, but are also being facilitated by the same guy believed to have ordered the hit on Jamal Kashoggi in a country with one of the most repressive regimes in the world. Worse yet, rumors are going around that the price for peace will be a huge portion of Ukraine's mineral wealth.
The ugly reality here is that not only do we seem to be kowtowing to neo-Soviet dictators, but we appear to be doing so in the same basic way that the Versailles Treaty paved the way for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. At the very best, an impoverished and humiliated Ukraine becomes susceptible to the very totalitarianism that we theoretically want to avoid, and could very likely become a Russian puppet state.
I hope I'm wrong, but I would hope that we would have the basic maturity to realize that sometimes we have to pay a price for freedom, and nations like Russia (Iran's biggest sponsor) are not likely to leave us alone if only we withdraw from Europe. To that effect, Putin's minions have already been talking about taking Alaska back. Their ambitions do not stop in the Donbas, or with the Dnipro. They likely cross the Bering Strait and extend to the Vistula, Elbe, and even the Rhine in Europe--if not further.
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