As a debate on the funding of the Ukraine war comes up in front of the newly Republican dominated House of Representatives a question continues here at home. Is this our war?
There are many of the left who think not. They see it as just a war between white people, without the racial tones that are the only thing that produce horror in the modern left. But the modern right has its own objections. They point not just to the undoubted corruption that has existed in Ukraine but endlessly make the point that we are spending money abroad that we should be spending at home. As though anyone honestly believes that a Republican or Democrat administration that stopped sending arms to Ukraine would immediately use that cash to build a wall at the southern border of the US?
There is a dishonesty and a frivolity in such claims.
Had Vladimir Putin succeeded in his aims of overrunning Ukraine we know other countries would have been next. Nobody now believes that he can swallow up the Baltic States or Moldova; he is looking stretched to even defend Crimea. And the Chinese Communist party and other hungry powers have learned something, too. They have learned that the civilized world means it when we say that there are some atrocities so appalling, some crimes of war so terrible that they cannot be permitted.
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