![]() They were “provoked” by the USA to their invasion, and are righteously taking what’s theirs, like Hitler to Danzig. What P-Dave and McMeekkn really mean: I want the killing to stop, so you Ukrainians need to just surrender to the soldiers bombing and invading your homeland. “Peace is the only hope: the killing must stop” And we have done far more than obligated in military supply aid. There has never been a US “promise” to militarily protect Ukraine. “Once again, despite promises of military support, Ukraine’s main sponsor has left her alone on the battlefield.” So the author seems to think that WWII wasn’t really Hitler’s fault, but at least partly because of Britain’s “mindless confrontation” of Germany. “ Chamberlain, like many statesmen reacting to bad news, veered from one irrational extreme to the other in 1939, from abject appeasement of Hitler to mindless confrontation.” You’ve also gone off the deep end lately. Peace is the only hope: the killing must An awful article. Perhaps everyone so sure of his own judgment should consider McMeeekin’s perspective. ![]() McMeekin’s command of Eastern European history during the last century is vastly greater than that of anyone posting here. It is a matter of realistically confronting the suffering of innocent people and honestly thinking about how to end that suffering. Deterrence failed to prevent Putin from invading Ukraine, but serious negotiations now may save her people from still worse horrors to come.Īs so many of us have tried to emphasize here, this is not a matter of being a Putin apologist. Senators are threatening to assassinate Russia’s President-may make westerners feel good, but threats of retaliation do nothing to help Ukrainians. All this belligerent talk-in the economic sphere, we are already at Defcon 2, and U.S. If a no-fly zone is declared over Ukraine, as irresponsible members of Congress are now proposing, we risk starting a shooting war with Russia, with unforeseeable consequences. We might learn from Poland’s example, doing our best to alleviate suffering on the ground rather than escalating tensions further. But his complaints are more credible that Western military and intelligence have turned Ukraine against the historic identity it long shared with Russia, making the country a lethally armed cat’s paw of the West – though not lethally armed enough to deter Russian aggression. Putin’s claims about Ukraine committing “genocide” in the Donbass may be far-fetched. Once again, despite promises of military support, Ukraine’s main sponsor has left her alone on the battlefield. When Putin finally struck this February, Russia invaded Ukraine from five directions, with Russia’s axis of advance bearing an unmistakable resemblance to the multi-pronged German invasion of Poland in 1939. has taken on Ukraine as a cause, dangling the prospect of NATO membership before her as early as 2008, supporting the “Euromaidan revolution” of 2014 which toppled a Russia-friendly government in Kyiv, and talking loudly of the need to defend Ukraine-Ukrainomania is bipartisan in Washington, one of the few issues which aligns and excites everyone who matters. Like Britain and France with Poland in 1939, the U.S. The essay focuses on how the Western allies led Poland down the primrose path, falsely leading the Poles to believe the West would protect Poland from Nazi Germany and how the West has done the same thing with Ukraine, causing the Ukrainians to engage in reckless behavior with regard to Russia, thinking that the West would save them. ![]() McMeekin has a well-established record as a harsh critic of Soviet Communism: he is by no measure a stooge of Russia or Putin. The brilliant historian Sean McMeekin, with whose books many of us are familiar, has an important essay, “The Primrose Path to Catastrophe,” up at the American Mind.
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