What if they gave a war and nobody ... noticed?
As we sink deeper into the war in Ukraine, most Americans seem blithely unaware of our country's ever-increasing involvement in the conflict. The Biden administration has inserted America firmly into a proxy war without a real national conversation about what our role in the conflict should be, without a formal declaration of war, and no plan to eventually extract ourselves from the war. While America obsesses over scoring Taylor Swift concert tickets, President Joe Biden is inching us deeper into the fight.
Anyone with a passing knowledge of U.S. history knows that slow-walking into a war hasn't worked out great for America in the past.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a reprehensible violation of international law, as are the war crimes that have been committed by Russian troops — actions that demand a strong response because force is the only language that despots like Russian President Vladimir Putin understand. The answer isn't to cut and run as Putin fanboy U.S, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida suggests, but Biden's recent decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine is clearly an escalation, and these escalations seem to be coming closer and closer together.
Yes, it's summer, our attention span is limited and actor Kevin Spacey is on trial. But we really need to shift our focus and have a national conversation about our long-term plan for our involvement in Ukraine.
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Hypocrisy much?
What a difference a year makes.
