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HCR seems to be in a state of denial regarding the obscenity of the Biden administration's ongoing support of Ukraine's oppressive, undemocratic one-party right-wing thug regime.
EDIT: The NATO countries have voting domination at the genocidal International Monetary Fund. In 2014, the IMF demanded, as part of a loan deal, that Ukraine re-conquer the breakaway Donbass republics, because income from their heavy industry was neede…
Are you capable of actually considering my detailed point of view? My starting point is this 2019 quote from "The Nation":
"Five years ago, Ukraine’s Maidan uprising ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, to the cheers and support of the West. Politicians and analysts in the United States and Europe not only celebrated the uprising as a triumph of democracy, but denied reports of Maidan’s ultranationalism, smearing those who warned about the dark side of the uprising as Moscow puppets and use…
John, let's say that you are right about Ukraine. It then comes down to the lesser of two evils. To permit Putin to gobble up Ukraine by adopting a policy of appeasement would only fuel his appetite for more, as happened in WWII with Germany invading Czechoslovakia. The West has decided that Putin must be stopped now. His atrocities inflicted on innocent Ukrainians is a war crime.
A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.