When it comes to events in Ukraine, my heart bleeds for the ordinary citizens who, just weeks ago, lived peaceful, relatively prosperous Western-style lives. They’re now wounded, dead or, if they’re “lucky,” they’re refugees with nothing but the clothes on their backs. What we are witnessing is a terrible crime against humanity. Having said that, I keep finding myself reserving judgment about everything else. I’ve learned that many stories are fake (even if the truth is equally sad and bad) and I don’t trust what’s coming from the Biden administration, the media, or our politicians. My confusion was worsened yesterday with news that, not only is Russia an important negotiating partner in the disastrous Iran deal Biden so badly wants, but it’s also going to get massive contracts to build nuclear sites.
I’m always distrustful of hysterical rushes to judgment. I find it completely unnerving when the same people who were protesting non-stop against the Iraq War (which was, at least ostensibly, meant to protect America from Islamic terrorism) are desperate to have us get into a shooting war with nuclear-armed Russia to protect Ukraine, something that confers no obvious benefit on us at all. That may ultimately be the right thing to do, but I’m deeply worried and suspicious when the push comes from radical activists who have spent the last 20 years hating America and protesting wars.
I’m also disturbed by the bizarre relationship the current administration has with Ukraine. We all know that Hunter Biden, who spoke no Russian or Ukrainian and knew nothing about oil and gas, got an $83,000/month job on the Burisma board, just when an anti-corruption prosecutor was looking into Burisma. And we know because he boasted about it, that Joe Biden used the threat of withholding American funds to get that prosecutor fired. Hmmm.
The biolabs bug me too. Victoria Nuland, the current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, in 2014, when she worked for Obama, was heard on a leaked private phone conversation with the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, talking about reorganizing the entire Ukrainian government. Just last week, Nuland admitted under oath that there were biolabs in Ukraine that were in the path of Russian troops, something very “concerning.” It’s known that more than 30 years after the Cold War ended and the U.S. stepped up to get rid of dangerous pathogens in Ukraine, there are still dangerous pathogens in Ukraine and the U.S. is somehow involved with them.
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