What's the End Game? How Much Will it Cost? How Does This Benefit America?

By Rich Kozlovich

Over this last week I've been reading an amazing amount of analysis of what Putin called a Special Military Operation, but most of it is from paid subscription sites.  This Special Military Operation, is now a war, a real war, undeclared war, and it's a mess.

We have one participant, the Russian Federation, which isn't really a national state, or stable.  There's no singular national identity, language, or ethnicity, facing international condemnation and economic sanctions for their undeclared  and unwarranted war on Ukraine.  A federation filled with a stunningly corrupt and murderous ruling elite repressing anything or anyone who has the courage to stand up to them.  

It's a mess, and my readers know I wouldn't spend ten cents or one drop of American blood to save Ukraine, and it's stunningly corrupt government, which has been lining the pockets of the Biden Crime Family for years.   The Ukrainians knew this was coming, but instead of arming themselves, and letting the world know they were ready, they corruptly filled their own coffers, and are now begging the rest of the world to fund them.  This is a European problem.  This is a Ukrainian problem.  All of which is a problem of their own making.   They're responsible, and let them fix it or not.  

At any rate, below are articles I think ask foundational questions that can't be answered honestly by the Biden administration, or the Uniparty hawks.

365 Days of War and $73 Billion to Ukraine – Where Does it End?  Americans are generous and willing to support the underdog, but hemorrhaging tax dollars must have an endgame.   By: Dave Patterson February 24, 2023 -  February 24 marks the one-year point of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. After the US, NATO, and the rest of Europe made little effort to notice the massive build-up of Moscow’s combat forces for the year prior, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin sent hordes of infantry, tanks, and combat aircraft across Ukraine’s border. The devastation, carnage, and cost in human lives have been mind-boggling. The US estimates 200,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killed. But what has been learned after a year of war in Ukraine, and what will constitute an endgame – or winning?...........

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Ukraine Showered with Tax Dollars, Corporate Money One Year Later, By: Andrew Moran February 24, 2023-  How much has the war in Ukraine cost the American people?   House Republicans presented a message to both President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky: The US government cannot keep writing blank checks to Ukraine. While taxpayer-funded money for Kyiv represents a small percentage of the overall budget, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have routinely approved new funding measures to help the Ukrainian military fight against the Russian invasion. But the seemingly never-ending spending spree in Eastern Europe has led to multiple questions from the American people: How much is enough? Will the US continue to fund the proxy war? What does victory even look like?   In 2022, the US government approved expenditures of $133 billion on financial, humanitarian, and military aid and assistance to Ukraine. This is equal to nearly $900 per household – and the number will keep growing in 2023. As economist and author David Henderson recently opined, “That’s a lot to fight someone else’s war” nearly 5,000 miles away............To Read More...

A Sober View Of The Russo-Ukrainian War,  February 24, 2023 By Earl J. Catagnus, Jr. - Here I sit, a middle-aged academic who lived and studies war, suffering daily from wounds received in a battle that has long since been forgotten, struggling to make sense of the West’s strategy in Ukraine. What are we doing? Are we waging a proxy war simply to bleed Russian military resources with the bodies of Ukrainian warriors? Do our leaders really have no understanding of the Ukrainian and Russian people and their long, distinguished history of strategic “stubbornness”? What about the Russian Federation’s brutal effectiveness in Chechnya, Georgia, and Syria? Are our leaders, particularly our military commanders, lacking strategic empathy, the ability to disassociate from oneself and assume the “mind of the other”? The evidence suggests that they are.......

 

The Ukraine War’s Prelude to What?, February 24, 2023 by Victor Davis Hanson - The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy war and prelude for the belligerents of World War II. The Ukraine battlefield is proving to be a similar laboratory of death. New lethal weaponry and tactics are introduced, modified – and always improved – from drones to guided missiles to internet-fed artillery. Likewise, a similar pre-global war lineup of the eventual adversaries is emerging in preview of a much larger, much scarier war to come.  The first mission of Ukraine, the aggrieved victim of a peremptory Russian attack, was simple survival.  But now that it has been armed to the teeth and its soldiers proved far more capable and heroic than Putin’s once-feared Russia, Kyiv now seeks to push back Russians to their 2014 Ukrainian acquired borders............

 

Orbán: “People will Demand Cease Fire, Peace, Sanity and – if Necessary – New Governments” by Richard Abelson Feb. 24, 2023 -  In his historic State of the Union address Feb. 18, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for a cease fire and peace talks in the Ukraine war. Orbán fondly remembered the pro-peace Presidency of Donald Trump and looked forward to the return of “our Republican friends” 2024. Orbán stressed his intention to remain neutral in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, even as NATO “is on the side of war”. “Can Hungary afford to remain on the side of peace in such circumstances, in a way that is directly opposed to that of our allies?”.......... “Of course we can, because Hungary is an independent, free and sovereign state,“ Orbán said, calling neutrality “the only right thing” to do........“the war in Ukraine is not a war between the armies of Good and Evil, but a war between the troops of two Slavic countries: a war limited in time and – for the time being – in space. It is their war, not ours.”.........

 

Biden's Weakness Created a New Axis of Evil, Spencer Brown  |  Feb 23, 2023 - As President Biden travels around Europe and makes his surprise visit to Ukraine with another $500 million worth of military aid in hand — putting a new exclamation point on his neglect of domestic crises — his administration continued issuing feeble warnings that China was set to increase assistance to Russia in its fight against Ukraine. Meanwhile, Iran has already been caught providing drones to Russia, and North Korea continues to escalate its missile tests.  So, what is Biden going to do about these evil empires? He's already shown weakness in his dealings with…all of them. Negotiations with Iran seeking a new nuclear deal? A complete failure. Suppressing North Korea's ambitions? Test launches escalated to an all-time high. Biden even spent months helping Beijing ingratiate itself with Putin's regime. All this while the White House trots out children after Biden's latest speech in Poland that the mainstream media is rushing to put on a level with Reagan's address at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin...........