Tangled up with Ukraine in Red White and Blue

George Washington used his Farewell Address on September 19, 1796 to warn newbie nation America to avoid foreign entanglements. He viewed them as damaging to the safety and well-being of a land largely insulated from foreign powers by two great oceans.

Alas, the U.S. has largely ignored Washington’s warning, entangling itself with friends and foes alike for most of its 245 years.

This process accelerated after WWII when America, with its unlimited power, decided to rule the world.

One of its worst entanglements in this century has been with Ukraine. Situated on a 1,200 mile border with its former ruler Russia, Ukraine has become a pawn in America’s new Cold War with Russia.

America doesn’t care a whit about the welfare of Ukraine and its people. But working with Western allies to disengage Ukraine from Russia has sadly turned Ukraine into a near failed state. The worst example of U.S. skullduggery occurred in 2013 when we helped facilitate the Ukraine coup that turned out its pro-Russian president. Civil war in the Donbas bordering Russia and Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, harboring its strategically important naval base, would likely have been averted if America minded Washington’s wise counsel.

American machinations in Ukraine were so senseless they resulted in the impeachment of President Trump for trying to use withholding needless U.S. millions in aid for help in winning re-election against Joe Biden. They even ensnared Biden thru the largely ‘no show’ job Ukraine bestowed upon Biden’s troubled son that reflected poorly on the candidate as well as his son.

On February 22 every year since 1896, the Senate honors Washington’s Birthday by designating a Senator to take the floor to recite Washington’s Farewell Address. And every year the Senators likely wait impatiently to get back to their real mission: devising new ways to entangle up America with the likes of Ukraine and others.