"Diversity is not our strength": Cincy's own Ramaswamy 2024!

[Dill]

(08-25-2023, 12:01 PM)GMDino Wrote: Yeah, no.

LOL Love the incredulous expression on Kilmeades' face.   V's proposal got me wondering though--

Ok so we let Russia have 20% of Ukraine, or however much it wants.

Then Russia will be eager to trade with us? Maybe to have sanctions lifted?
And they will break off or back off relations with China to get that?
Would they stop sending oil to China for that? 

More importantly, how would we know what we got for leaving an ally on the butcher's block?
Mightn't Putin just say "thanks for Ukraine and lifting sanctions.  We welcome Exxon drilling
technology back to Siberia, and all the benefits of full entry back into international trade."
And then just do what he wants with China anyway? Sell all this to his country as something
he "got over" on the US? 

Meantime Europe and our NATO allies are thinking what? 

"For two years the US pressures us to contribute to Ukraine to stop Russia, 
and we are all on the same page. We sold this to our people and tightened our belts.
Now suddenly the US unilaterally decides Russia is our friend?  
Well, maybe we'll get cheap gas. But something to think about the next time the US
wants our cooperation on some international crusade. This is as bad as pulling out of the Iran deal, 
just as our manufacturers were setting up factories there, after sweet talking us for two years to join it." 

I think our NATO allies Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would he a bit more than shocked,
as they certainly could not withstand a bull rush of Russian tanks 5 years from now, when
Russia's economy and military are replenished.

Were Vivek elected and had the backing to turn our foreign policy on a dime again, as 
Trump did, our allies would be feeling that alliance with the US was like riding the tilt a whirl 
at an American State Fair.  Trump got them planning ways to make their way in the world
with weaker or no US alliance. This would push them over the edge. We are not reliabel.