Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Zelensky takes Biden to task Date:   3/17/2022 8:13:26 AM

I listened to most of it and some things he said I think are not going to have the effect he desires.  Comparing the invasion to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor was fine rhetoric but the reality is when those things happened we didn't ask others to do our fighting, we did it ourselves.  The fact is that if we are involved in enforcing a no-fly zone we will have to shoot down Russian military aircraft.  That could indeed turn this into a much bigger conflict because the hawks in the Russian military will demand a response and Putin will have no choice.  So they sink one of our carriers or bomb the airfield where the planes came from.  Then we have to respond and suddenly we are in a shooting war with Russia....which is exactly what China wants to see happen so they can move on Taiwan.

The Ukraine thing is so weird right now.  We have left wing nuts and RINO neocons that seem to want to go to war with Russia, a senile President who is waiting for instructions and a cackling hyena as VPOTUS that made a complete a$$ of herself in Poland and humilitated the entire country with her ineptness and lack of even basic preparation.  We should be providing as much aid as possible to Ukraine, including F-16, anti tank and anti aircraft missiles, etc. to allow them to defend themselves, which they seem to be doing very well without this aid.  But at the end of the day Ukraine is a corrupt kleptocracy just like Russia and we have no business sending the American military there to fight for them.  It's in our strategic interest for them to defeat Russia but not to the point of our being actively involved.