The Wrong War With the Wrong Country at the Wrong Time

It has been bleakly amusing to see Leftists suddenly become war hawks.  The Clinton concocted face saving myth that she lost the 2016 election because of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign has hardened into anti-Russian hysteria with Leftists calling their opponents traitors in league with Putin.  The funny thing about fits of national hysteria is that the manufacturers of the hysteria often lose control of it and it ends in national disaster.  So it is with the eagerness of Leftists to fly to the defense of the Ukraine.  A few thoughts before the first casualties:

1. I doubt there will be US involvement if Putin does invade.  The Puppetmasters are all talk.  Absent economic sanctions, nothing will be done.  The premature bug out of our diplomatic staff shows that Afghanistan is the model.  However, events can be unpredictable and wars develop a logic all their own once shooting begins.
2. Our deeply demoralized woke military is a paper tiger and likely incapable of carrying out a ground war in Ukraine, at least a ground war we could win.
3. Nato is an organization well beyond its sell by date and is no longer useful for this country.
4. We have no vital interests in Ukraine, especially while confronting a rising Chinese threat in the Pacific which is the major US foreign interest.
5. Russia is a third world nation in many ways masquerading as a superpower.  Becoming involved militarily against it near its borders is the only way it can hurt this nation, short of it hoping that its aging nuclear missiles do not explode on the ground if they attempted to launch them against us.
6. Putin is a tyrant and an all around bad guy and I would hate to live in Russia, but in this vale of tears we have to choose our enemies as wisely as we choose our friends.
7. Isolationism is not a realistic policy and it is becoming too popular on the right.
8. With Biden we have a commander in chief clearly suffering from dementia and shadowy forces making the decisions instead of an elected President.
9. This nation hasn’t waged war against a power like Russia since 1945.  A nation that tired of fighting the Taliban simply doesn’t have the stomach for such a fight.
10.  Wars not infrequently begin because of a long chain of mistaken assumptions.  In regard to our policy as to Ukraine and Russia, those mistaken assumptions are radically on display.  The US has never really intended to fight to keep the Ukraine free from the designs of a resurgent Russia.  Pretending otherwise has been an exercise in writing checks on a bank account with insufficient funds and expecting the funds to magically appear in the account.   The idea that Nato, or rather now the shadow of the old Nato, was a prop to maintain Ukrainian independence was always a fantasy.
11. Putin is not a recreation of Hitler but rather of Mussolini, and China is using him to distract us from responding to their next moves.
12. It is said with considerable truth that generals always fight the last war.  Diplomats, on the other hand, are always attempting to recreate a world in balance that never was.