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The Seeds of World War 3 Are Being Sown Right Before Our Eyes — And We’re on the Wrong Side
Three years ago, Democratic nations watched in concern and horror as Russian forces marched unprovoked into Europe’s largest democracy, Ukraine, attempting to finish what Russia had started in 2014 when it invaded and re-occupied the Crimea in Ukraine’s easternmost region.
The United States should have considered that a red line and come to Ukraine’s defense as we promised to do in the Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994 when Ukraine agreed to give up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in exchange for assurances Russia would not invade it.
Aside from some significant sanctions, we did not follow through more aggressively. This might be due to the fact that Ukraine is not a member of NATO and therefore not obligated to receive NATO nations’ aid if attacked.
Fast forward to 2016.
A former reality-TV slumlord who had been fired from NBC for disparaging Mexican immigrants, who ran for president as a publicity stunt disparaging Mexican immigrants is elected president with copious Russian assistance.
While he was not president in 2022 when Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered Ukraine invaded, the former occupant of the Oval Office had done enough of Russia’s bidding that the United States’…
