I love the Pinkies. I love the way they bust up Congressional hearings and other displays of the National Security State. They always show up. But I’m no peacenik. Their stance on Ukraine, if you don’t mind the technical terminology, is fucked up. Few are reluctant to admit that the Russian invasion is a monstrous crime. Anyone who apologizes for this mass murder has taken up residence in Tuckerville and has put themselves beneath dialog and beyond any notion of what it means to be on the Left.
> Back in the day, nobody was demanding that the Vietnamese start negotiating with the U.S.
Bad analogy, Max. Vietnam was eight thousand miles away.
Ukraine is next door and immediately, critically within the "sphere of influence."
Mearsheimer says it was misleadership for Ukrainian misleaders to play footsie with NATO. It was credulous. Now, the longer they hold off negotiating and acceding to what Code Pink and other realists are mentioning . . . the longer their country will get knocked around.
This could be the ruination of Russia, but also of Ukraine. Sad. The winners of WWI over-antagonized the losers and it led to WWII. The winners of the Cold War over-antagonized the losers and it's led to the current turmoil. Us Pinkie fans are plenty critical of Autocrat Putin and hope he'll be finally gone ASAP. But I don't think you're being critical enough of NATO's provocations over the last thirty years.
Steve Welzer (former cub reporter under Targum editor Sawicky)
> Back in the day, nobody was demanding that the Vietnamese start negotiating with the U.S.
Bad analogy, Max. Vietnam was eight thousand miles away.
Ukraine is next door and immediately, critically within the "sphere of influence."
Mearsheimer says it was misleadership for Ukrainian misleaders to play footsie with NATO. It was credulous. Now, the longer they hold off negotiating and acceding to what Code Pink and other realists are mentioning . . . the longer their country will get knocked around.
This could be the ruination of Russia, but also of Ukraine. Sad. The winners of WWI over-antagonized the losers and it led to WWII. The winners of the Cold War over-antagonized the losers and it's led to the current turmoil. Us Pinkie fans are plenty critical of Autocrat Putin and hope he'll be finally gone ASAP. But I don't think you're being critical enough of NATO's provocations over the last thirty years.
Steve Welzer (former cub reporter under Targum editor Sawicky)
Good piece Max. Youmean you dont takr ur
Political leadership from Aaron Matê ? :)