Just ignore my post. I'm clueless on this.
This man isn't:
Ukraine is an equal opportunity crisis because it provides politicians of both parties a chance to be wrong, although it allows the
DEMOCRATS the opportunity to do what they do best and be much, much more wrong.
For the Republicans, it lets them indulge the desire of some to return to a time when America could focus its moral firepower – if not its firepower firepower – upon a readily-identifiable baddie like it did during the Cold War or the War on Terror.
For the left, it allows them to create a moral panic to replace COVID, which, naturally, requires that we Americans "sacrifice" even more of our freedom and money.
From the perspective of someone who actually trained Ukrainian troops in Ukraine, commanded US forces, and attended the US Army War College – though it's kind of the Chico State of war colleges – the whole way our elite is approaching the crisis is an epic clusterfark.
Don't believe anything anyone tells you – and certainly, sanity check whatever I'm telling you, too – most of these insta-experts on intra-Slavic conflict know absolutely squat-ski.
Moreover, their remarkably dumb observations and credulous acceptance of conventional wisdom, which has proven long on conventional and short on wisdom, are being presented without any kind of strategic context.
They don't know where this crisis came from and certainly have no clear notion of where they want it to go beyond the vague and unhelpful idea that they want Putin (which they use interchangeably with Russia) to "lose" without knowing what that even means.
"Putin bad" is true, but it's insufficient. It's time for some real talk about America's interests, which may not be Ukraine's interests, and how we are pursuing them.
Except no one wants to talk about that because that's not fun.
Moral panics are, and stopping for a second to think strategically spoils the party for many in both parties.
Kurt Schlichter (Twitter: @KurtSchlichter) is a name partner in a growing Los Angeles firm of trial lawyers, and a retired Army Infantry colonel with a masters in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/03/14/can-we-have-some-real-talk-about-ukraine
