Putin's War on Ukraine Begins Its 21st Year
Enter politics. The usual leftist media suspects have resurrected their usual language for short-term political gain.
"No-win war" -- heard that a dozen times last week. This classic thrice: "another endless war." That Vietnam-era anti-war cant became unilateral disarmament religion in the 1970s and 1980s when lefties bewailed the Cold War as fatal darkness powered by "capitalist greed" and doomed to end in nuclear annihilation.
Ukraine is now in an endless war. Heard that four times in the last four days.
The Beltway press dubbed Afghanistan endless, calling it America's longest war and missing the fact the Korean War began in 1950. Korea ain't over. No peace treaty on the Korean peninsula.
Biden didn't end Afghanistan. He fled in demented, spineless confusion, and now it's an Islamist terror base.
Unfortunately, some of the Cold War-era conservative stalwarts have indulged in Endless War lingo and applied it to Ukraine.
Why? Answer: All politics are local. (Footnote: Aristotle used politics to describe how Greek city-states tried to create order out of human chaos.)
U.S. stalwarts are righteously angered by the Biden administration's criminal disregard for U.S. borders and immigration law. The Biden administration utterly fails to defend our country against an invasion sapping America's economy, undermining America's social safety net and destroying our political culture.
If you accept my 2004 covert action start date, Putin's Ukraine War is entering its 21st year. Cable TV/vapid Beltway media calculation is two years.
The 2014 Crimea annexation scared Finland and Sweden. On Feb. 20, the Swedish government announced it will give Ukraine another $682 million in military aid. Since February 2022, Sweden has given Ukraine about $2.14 billion in military aid.
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