Wauck has a very good handle on this whole Russia/Ukraine brouhaha. After presenting arguments on the matter from well-informed people (that excludes the MSM, by the way), he winds up with this graf:
...Americans can have an empire or they can have a republic. They can’t have both, and I leave it to others to argue over which we have. The national security state that we currently live under—complete with designation of basically half of all Americans as potential domestic terrorists and/or foreign agents—is exactly the type of state one would expect under an empire. For those who cherish the idea of a republic that bears some resemblance to what we used to have, I suggest that such a regime will never return unless the empire is reigned in. If Americans buy into the current iteration of the Russia Hoax rather than demanding accountability for our foreign policy, the imperial national security state will be emboldened to tighten the domestic screws further. That, I believe is what is really at stake in the latest ginned up Ukraine crisis....
Let Vindman, Larry Tribe, and Linnnnndseeeeeeey go fight Russia. If they can build their empire, great. If not, they can return in body-bags, just like the kids they sent to Viet Nam--or the ones Biden abandoned in Afghanistan.
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