CCI Friends,
I was shocked on April 13 when ominous U.S. “Defender-Europe 2021 ‘War Games’” were announced on Ukraine/Russia’s border … using 30,000 NATO troops, miles of new tanks and battleships headed for the Black Sea. Stunned also, Russians quickly fielded a similar number of soldiers, miles of trucks near their borders and ordered the ships out of their waters!
The U.S. side, hyped the news channels about Russians mounting for war (while totally ignoring the U.S. Defender-Europe 21 War Games). For those who don’t follow news carefully, Russia looked like the big bad bear … there was no mention of the U.S. War Games (which preemped Russia’s response)!
We Americans believe in fair play … don’t we? We teach our children to treat others kindly on their playgrounds … don’t we? We expect fair play on basketball courts and golf greens … don’t we? It’s a matter of personal pride … isn’t it? Only unsavory characters do otherwise … right?
Then why do we tolerate our government, president and military to stoop to such dangerous antics? They provoked fear in another heavily nuclearized nation, spent enormous amounts of our tax dollars for troops, tanks, weapons and battleships, … and then blamed Russia for having troops on their own borders?
Below Natylie Baldwin points out other dangerous idiocies. Please read and determine if this is acceptable behavior for people in U.S. leadership.