Good for Joe Biden for dropping into embattled Kyiv. And good for the United States for our support for the brave Ukrainian national resistance to genocidal aggression. And good for Volodymyr Zelenskyy for hia exemplary performance of leadership for a country under threat of extinction.
This is the first war in my lifetime in which the United States has played a role in which I could, more or less, feel my country was throwing its massive weight onto a right side. It's a bizarre feeling and I know I'm not alone in this.
But let's not get all triumphal about it. Even a "good war" is an evil. Let's not spew happy talk about defending "the rules-based international order." The U.S. has little standing to deliver that message.
Let's continue U.S. support for a democratic, free Ukraine. That will require a domestic political fight, one that ought to be engaged and won.
But let's not pretend that war is anything but evil.
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Have to say, militarizing the area kills so many. In the end it will be negotiated settlements. Can't we skip to that and stop killing everyone in the area?
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