The media are full of people insisting the US has to make Putin pay for actions in the Ukraine obviously aimed at keeping the Crimea secure for the Russian navy and preventing Ukraine turning into a very, very forward NATO base.
Those people include the President, his SECDEF, and many of his supporters in office, in the media, or in "think tanks" whose job is to keep America the world's number one meddler in other people's affairs.
Relatively few and relatively quiet are those who oppose American meddling, though they seem more numerous or noisy on the right than on the left.
Let me clarify.
Many major Democrat sites are simply ignoring the whole thing.
That they don't endorse the madness is a good thing.
That they don't criticize the madness is a blatant reflection of bias.
The whole Ukraine affair is incredibly stupid, in large part our own fault for encouraging the coup and now insisting on legitimating the illegal new government, and anyways none of our business.
How many Americans need to go without food stamps or health insurance so we can float a billion in guaranteed loans to buy the Ukraine for NATO?
How many elderly have to eat cat food because we can't afford to give them a raise in their Social Security payments because we are spending other billions worldwide aimed at weakening Russia?
What the hell is all this nonsense?
And on the other side of the planet, recall that Reagan got credit for destroying the Soviet Union by forcing them to spend beyond their means on the military to keep up with us.
According to the conservatives, this imposed such economic hardship on the country that the peoples of the USSR refused to take it any more and made a revolution.
What will happen when we go bust trying to keep up with China and Russia as both countries, especially China, grow rich enough and more than rich enough to spend us into the ground?
And in the case of China this will be largely because our neoliberal trade policies enriched China by impoverishing America!
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