Might not be so lucky this time

The U.S. has pitched the Russian war in Ukraine as a fight to the finish between democracy and authoritarianism. But to win that war, the U.S. will only sanction Russia economically and provide military aid to Ukraine at $54 billion and rising. Ukraine has been designated to provide all the corpses.

Diplomacy leading to a negotiated settlement has been ruled out.

Why not the real deal of U.S. troops and planes? As President Biden ominously said, "That will mean World War III". What he left out was 'nuclear Armageddon.'

This ancient student of history is one of the dwindling Americans who lived thru and was traumatized by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. After 13 days we learned that our brush with WWIII was barely avoided by, yep, a negotiated settlement, It provided face saving carrots to both sides. Later we learned that settlement occurred because U.S. President Kennedy and Russian President Khrushchev, horrified by their generals’ rush to nuclear war, cut them off at the knees and made peace.

This time, unless we stop weaponizing Ukraine and negotiate sensibly, we may not be so lucky.