Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraine
By John J. Duncan Jr.
The Democrats are so partisan now and so eager to criticize President Trump on anything he does that they are even attacking him for entering into peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin.
They are so desperate that they are even attacking him on things they used to favor, such as being tough on trade and trying to bring more jobs back to the U.S.
The war between Russia and Ukraine never would have happened and could have easily been avoided if we had stuck by previous commitments by President Trump during his first term and by Secretary of State James Baker in 2012 not to expand NATO into Ukraine.
These broken promises have been made worse by our eagerness to impose sanctions on Russia, and actions by so-called Neocons who have been in power and active in both Democratic and Republican administrations for the last 40 or more years.
For instance, AI says the U.S. “actively engaged in efforts to influence Ukraine’s political landscape, which ultimately contributed to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych,” who had been popularly elected.
The AI report added: “The U.S., particularly through figures like Victoria Nuland, openly expressed support for the Euromaidan protests, which aimed to push Yanukovych towards closer ties with the EU (European Union) and away from Russia.”
U.S. taxpayers provided about $5 billion to aid Ukraine in this effort in the years immediately following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Liberal internationalist neocons seemingly have such arrogance and lust for power that they apparently want to try to run the whole world. We are now $37 trillion in debt, and a large part has come from our interventionism into wars, conflicts, and disputes around the globe.
Victoria Nuland and her husband, Robert Kagan, are two of the nation’s leading neocons, people who columnist George Will described as the “most radical” people in Washington, D.C.
I know many millions of people hate or despise President Trump, but the overwhelming majority of people appreciate his efforts to try to put America first, and only the most bitterly partisan Democrats will criticize his efforts to end wars.
In the book “Eisenhower Vs. Warren,” author James F. Simon wrote: “Ever the optimist, even as tensions mounted with the Soviet Union over the governance of postwar Germany, Eisenhower believed that the United States and the Soviet Union could live in peaceful co-existence. On a visit to Moscow at Stalin’s invitation in August 1945, he said at a news conference, ‘I see nothing in the future that would prevent Russia and the United States from being the closest of friends.’”
Simon’s book also said, “behind Ike’s irresistible grin and relentless good humor was a man of strong opinions on the most controversial issues of the day. He had been appalled when he was told … of the plan to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. ‘So I voiced … my grave misgivings … first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.’”
On Dec. 16, 2024, I wrote a column entitled “Trump Should Pattern Presidency After Eisenhower.” I started that column with Eisenhower’s statement to his chief of staff: “God help the nation when it has a president who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.”
I admire Eisenhower not only because he was our most anti-war president, but also because he had the courage to issue 181 vetoes, only two of which were overridden. He faced a Democrat-controlled Congress for six of his eight years in the White House.
I say Eisenhower was our most anti-war president because of his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 18, 1953; his refusal to obey Israel’s demand to go to war with them against Egypt in 1956; his willingness to reduce the defense budget; and his farewell address on Jan. 19, 1961, warning against the military-industrial complex.
Also, in opposing neocon interventionism, I wish President Trump and his top aides would read these words from President Kennedy’s speech in Seattle, Washington on November 16, 1961: “We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient – that we are only six percent [now four percent] of the world’s population and that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind – that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that, therefore, there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.” And we weren’t even close to $37 trillion in debt then.
