A Realist in the White House

 Three years ago, I was prepping for my hysterectomy. I had bad fibroids, and my hemoglobin level was dropping so much monthly, I could not outwait the bleeding and let menopause do a natural fix, as I'd been hoping for years...

When I came to in the hospital bed after surgery (they couldn't do a robotic laser removal vaginally as they were afraid the uterus mass would break into pieces and potentially spread cancer, though it biopsied benign), Russian troops were massing on the border poised to invade Ukraine. Next morning, the tv was all about the invasion...

Three years in. The US initially promised millions to help repel and support the Ukrainian army.  Stupid move, I thought.  The Ukraine can't beat Russia; this war started in the Obama administration when Russia retook Donbas and the Russian-speaking more traditional territories/provinces...

The Biden administration kept on throwing good money after bad, billions and billions and billions wasted to turn the region into a literal meatgrinder.  Acres upon acres of productive land with huma homes destroyed...

All so America's war loving neo-cons (men like David French of the NYT) could lick their chops, excited that we could simply pay a foreign army to throw bodies at Russia and bleed them out.  "No American lives lost!" the worldwide warriors proclaimed. We can just keep paying them BILLIONS and they will fight for us!~

Nevermind it wasn't our war, our fight and was actually disadvantageous these perpetual wars... to the global environment, civilian lives, and any chance for smart diplomacy in the region.  The Biden family syndicate had connections over there;  little Zelensky dressed up in camo and charmed our Congress; and the good times rolled... to the tune of unaccounted for billions, sums not even seen in America's "liberation" of Iraq and Afghanistan that helped enrich the personal private fortunes of men such as French, Vance, DeSantis, etc.

Warriors without a cause, they now point to Putin as... the next Hitler! (or was that Trump?, so many mini Adolph's popping up in paranoids these days; it's profitable to keep pumping out that opinion column, it seems; all the Dem activists in the  press can do now that they've been disempowered with the former regime...)

Three years later, it's time to admit what wiser minds knew back them, if they told the truth: "Defending Ukraine" is not America's job, much less Europes's.  It was another gigantic global wealth transfer, aimed at initiating foreign business interests -- Ukraine being lithium-rich and thus "valued" the way we once did Middle Eastern nations when the US was more reliant on foreign energy; those days are passing too...

This is and always has been a regional conflict.  Putin has no plans to "take Poland!" and The Ukraine does not belong -- cannot afford to belong -- to a large organization like NATO.  It's best a "buffer region" where the local people should be allowed not only to have a say in their political futures, but simply to live...

Sending all those weapons of war to a little country that had neither the manpower not the expertise to operate them, and never saying, "No" to little Zelensky's outstretched "fundraising" hands has finally caught up to us.  The US voters elected new representatives because the old guard -- whoever that was -- was not representing our interests, but the global elites who continue taking from our country (some even citizens now) but owe us nothing.

More wars means more refugees.  More Eastern Europeans means more chronically "needy" peoples here who know mostly political corruption, not how democracy works -- the take AND give...  More war refugees to assimilate in an America already flooded with unmet social needs.

Trump is right that America needs to secure our borders, a job that Congress has collected paychecks for but left undone since the 2001 attacks... He's also right that perpetually defending Ukraine is not our fight.  Let Zelensky flee now, after three years of enrichment and a futile defense of his homeland (but hey, they DID attack Russia proper once upon a time; ah, sweet memories!) as Trump and Putin -- the two "superpower" leaders -- on behalf of their peoples put their heads together to come up with a less bloody solution to the Ukraine problem today.

If only American political leaders would stop worshipping the weapon, and financing wars abroad -- with our tax dollars -- at the drop of a hat.  If only the media had held Congress accountable all these years.  The people's representatives are responsible for "declaring war" and the American people have not been on board with all this death-for-profit since 2008, at least... 

Sadly, admit or not, Trump is more representative of the American people's will on Ukraine today. If you disagree, anybody can enlist and you can privately fund the Sunflower Revolution by cancelling your foreign travel and putting your money where your mouth is...