Do Something 'Honorable' Today and Every Day

The Russian dictator looks at the USA and other Western democracies and sees nations in turmoil over whether schools should have a third toilet for those who can't decide if they are male or female. He sees violent protests about the accidental death of an habitual criminal during his arrest. He knows our manufacturing industries have been "transferred" to Communist China and our workers ignored by the rich and powerful. It is not at all surprising that Putin has decided to expand his empire through military conquest because he believes we do not have the courage to oppose him. He seems to be right.

I see history repeating itself again; it is as if Putin the former spy has taken a page from the history of the 1930s.

We all may try and do what is honorable as I believe most do on a daily basis BUT the time has come for Honorable men and woman that we voted into govern us stand and be as they promised be Honorable and Honest and NOT self seeking ingrates as we have now both in America and Australia.
There are a few, so very few, that are that Honorable and truthful; the remainder seek only to enlarge their personal wealth at the cost of we the people.
Again I personally think that Putin is testing just how far he can go and what other nations of the world will do in response; if zero then look to other former countries that Russia overran and took over after WW2 with at time all turning a blind eye. Poland, Latvia, Hungary, and so on.

The old US government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" has been replaced by a dictatorial Marxist regime in the making, which will not listen to its citizenry for any reason, including Russia's invasion of the Ukraine. That, and the fact that too many US citizens are complicit with the present regime. Our "government" will not lift a finger to help the Ukrainians!

Great! Kadish nailed it!

GREAT article!! URGENT: Sanction the Russian Central Bank! Much better than removing Russia from SWIFT - which would only help China replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency with the Chinese yuan. But sanctioning the Russian Central Bank would stop Putin dead in his tracks. Biden, Congress wake up!

Biden, Close the borders! Why are you using our hard-earned money to let unvetted people come into our country illegally to kill our kids - more than 100,000 of them in just one year! - with lethal drugs?? Do something honorable: Make our borders safe!

Thank you, Mr. Kadish! Great article!! President Biden, OPEN THE SPIGOTS NOW - full blast! Why are we paying a fortune to Putin for our oil and funding his war machine against us when we have the cheapest and cleanest oil??? REVERSE your regulations today! They are hurting Americans and funding our enemies. Whose president are you?

All members of Congress should do something honorable today: get off your butts and make us energy independent again!

NATO having dispatched its entire "response force" of 40,000 soldiers to the eastern members of the alliance, the risk to the U.S. of compulsory direct engagement against Russia has increased by several orders of magnitude, as has the potential for WW III with devastating nuclear and biological weapons.

The U.S.'s current optimal response to Russia's aggression against the Ukraine requires prompt and severe negative effect on Russia, no use of U.S. armed forces, no loss of U.S. lives, and minimum overall total cost to U.S. taxpayers.

The optimum response, therefore, is to (1) promptly prevent sales of Russian oil and natural gas to the maximum reasonably possible degree; (2) offer to supply weapons to the Ukraine under a lend-lease agreement at reasonable interest: (3) open the Keystone Pipeline; (4) rescind the executive orders prohibiting exploration for oil and natural gas deposits within U.S. boundaries; and (4) render the U.S. independent of foreign oil with the capacity to sell excess U.S. oil and natural gas at market to any nation not aligned with Russia or China.

As to honor, we also must remain aware of the thousands of ghastly Ukrainian pogroms repeatedly conducted against practitioners of the Hebrew faith since 1905 which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths of innocent civilians, the Ukrainian government's official policy of historical denial in regard to the persecution of Jews, since 1905, particularly the WWII ethnic cleansing committed by the Ukrainian nationalist movement against Jews.

We have no military alliance with Ukraine, like France had with Czechoslovakia in 1938, and US/NATO military intervention must be expected to trigger WWIII. This is probably closer to Hungary in 1956.

Dear Lawrence Kadish,
Your advice is helpful and encouraging as that which is going on in the world at this time.

Selma Soss

Thankyou great sentiments. My first memories of Cold War was at age 5 in public school, an alarm was sounded and we lined up and went into the hall where we crouched and covered our head waiting for the atomic blast. My last memory I had hoped was when I received a letter and Cold War Medal thru my unit one of only a few applied for and bestowed. I hoped it was over.

Sadly, while the endowment by God of wisdom & strength that was once our legacy, our internal enemies have thrown that away for the glitter of wealth & perceived power, even going so far as to openly, & vocally rejecting the Source of that wisdom & strength. Today's young adults are largely (70%) unfit for military service, per military requirements, & those that are accepted are found to be physically, as well as psychologically, more "fragile". I seriously doubt America today could defend herself in a"real live shooting war", let alone protect her allies, as we did less than a century ago. Not only is our military not up to the job physically in terms of personnel, it has been greatly depleted over the past several decades, in terms of equipment as well, & training in recent yrs has focused on social issues rather than fighting skills. Worse, our infrastructure that once enabled us to fight & win a global war on 2 major fronts, our manufacturing, & food & energy production are all but gone, shipped off shore or crippled by onerous ecological regulations, & bad domestic policies in general for decades. Bottom line, I doubt we could fight our way out of a wet paper bag, to save ourselves, today.
A global or other major conflict requires an united people, sacrifices, & the ability to be self-sustaining as a nation; we have none of those abilities any longer.

The breakup of the Former Yugoslavia and NATO actions in that region was a full-scale war, waged by the West against sovereign states.

May I quote the Roman general Vegetious, who wrote "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." Vegetius' quote has been interpreted to mean that the time to prepare for war is not when war is imminent but rather when times are peaceful. A strong peacetime defense force and the moral fibre to deploy if necessary sends a message to would-be aggressors that the battle may not be worth it. Putin believes that the US has the former but not the latter. That's why endless rounds of diplomacy, sanctimonious hand-wringing and threats of sanctions have served only to encourage aggressors like Putin, and will do the same for China and Iran. And just as Churchill said, you will not avoid war but will make it worse when it comes.

How would Americans influence this disgraceful, utterly foolish and wretched Biden Administration government to do something noble and sacrificial? This government rejects and vilifies any American who tries to draw its attention to the southern border disaster, to the violence in cities and that it was an incompetent disaster when withdrawing from Afghanistan? It lies about the January 6, 2020 Capitol invasion and it lies about pretty much everything.
God long ago withdrew that 'wisdom' when Americans as a nation turned their back on God and rejected His laws and wisdom. Like other pitiful countries of the West, Ukraine will left to fight this war on its own.

Biden seems to think that he can control Putin with blocking him and his henchmens money and belongings No chance. The guy only knows and respects force. You can say what you like about Trump but I bet he would not have allowed Putin the free run he is getting from Biden and the other apologists in Europe who think that appeasement is the answer. They will find out to the cost of the Ukrainian people that Putin is laughing at them and their weakness. If Biden cannot lead the free world and do what is right he should step aside for someone who can.

When Berlin was once cut off by the Russian, JFK rallied Germans by saying that "Today I'm a Berliner". Likewise, let us declare ourselves to be Ukrainians in an act of solidarity with that beleaguered country.

The premise of the article is correct.
Putin does not respect Biden, who he sees as the penultimate decision maker in government, and thus of the U.S., general policy direction.
Biden has not brought forth praise from people, rather derision.
This is fatal to both U.S. foreign policy, and to economy, the latter which he wants to buy his way out by mortgaging the future for young Americans.
Putin knows that in Soviet Russia, America was a substantial adversary, and once this adversary is paralysed he can do what he likes.
It is almost without hope, except for ongoing prayer, and other determining factors, like China, and the EU block (which still has some clout even though the UK has left it), as well as the U.N., etc.
If the Russian people rise up as they did in St Petersburg, he will have to think twice. The attempted murder of Navalny, and his placement in prison is now well known.
Most of all the notion of dictator is beginning to sink in, and tyranny, which no-one wants.
Putin's threat of a nuclear war would be known by many Russians who don't want a retaliation of this kind from anywhere- including Korea which is very volatile, and Pakistan which has weaponry.
People are beginning to wake up.
If Putin really wanted to take Ukraine, he would have moved in much more smartly than he has- his idea is to frighten the opposition like the proverbial Russian bear, and assume they will quit- but this has not happened.
Prayer, ongoing prayer, and fasting particularly is needed. Fasting stops wars.

The tragedy of the Ukrainian crisis is that is could have been avoided, but one of the seeds of these terrible events were sown in 1954 and the others in the 1990s.

The 1954 event was a historical event that occurred when Nikita Khrushchev for mainly administrative reasons transferred the governance of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine. Crimea had been Russian since Catherine the Great freed Crimea from the Ottoman Empire, and the population of Crimea is predominantly Russian as is also the case in the Dombas region of Ukraine.
Khrushchev, a Russian, grew up in the Dombas and rose to lead the Communist party in Ukraine, before becoming the General Secretary of the USSR Communist Party and Leader of the USSR. It is quite a fatuous argument to suggest that Khrushchev foresaw the break up of the USSR and ceded Crimea to Ukraine with the idea that Ukraine would ever be independent of the USSR.

The major source of the seeds of this conflict are from the lost opportunity to positively engage with Russia post the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and are comparable with the factors that sewed the seeds of WW2 post the Treat of Versailles.
George HW Bush gave Mikhail Gorbachev that there would be no eastward expansion of NATO, Clinton failed to honour Bush's undertaking, using the rationale that there was no formal agreement or treaty.

Post the Soviet Union, there has been no genuine attempt as disengagement or detente, between Russia and the West and it is hardly surprising that the Russians are distrustful of the USA and NATO, when NATO expanded Eastwards tight up to the Russian border and stationed troops in the former Warsaw pact area. Russia has been invaded from the West through Ukraine in 1812, 1914, and 1941, so why wouldn't they be sensitive to NATO's eastward expansion. Those of us who are old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis, when the World went to the brink of nuclear war, because the USSR attempted to install missiles in Cuba, could reasonably draw a parallel with Russia's response to NATO expansion to their borders.

Perhaps the USA's $5 Billion funding, during Obama's Presidency,to the Ukrainian opposition to the pro Russian Ukrainian Government, aided and abetted by Germany, prior to the 2014 overthrow of that Government, was the single greatest catalyst to the current Russian hard line.

None of the historical background, can excuse Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but it is fair supposition, if the USA and NATO had engaged better with Russia post the dissolution of the Soviet Union rather than trying to keep what they saw as a rabid dog down.

So the World goes into biggest crisis post WW2 with America led by the weakest US President in well over a century, and i only say the biggest if China doesn't seize the opportunity to move on Taiwan, which the US has pledged to guarantee their independence. If President Bill "Rip Van Winkle" Biden fails on that America's world standing as a beacon of democracy and the rule of law is lost, and the whole world will suffer.

If anyone disputes the few historical facts I have detailed above, they are easy enough to check. Politicians have a very cavalier attitude to the facts and the truth, and aided and abetted by the MSM paint the narrative to a carefully curated selective history to serve their own purposes.
Those who say my Country right or wrong ade frequently partially or sometimes fully in the wrong.

We live in challenging and frightening times, and I despair of the World our political leaders are leaving for my grand children and great grand children to grow up in.

This is more difficult with nuclear weapons at Putin's command.
He seems to be just the type that would use them.

Same old same old clumsy diplomatic lead up with self assured dictators and their clearly stated intentions. Choice of friends and allies is an important clue; Putin's decision to run & play with Assad & the Iranians was fair warning. Amateurs in the Oval Office aided & abetted. If ISIS was 'Junior Varsity' sad to say Kerry & Barry were Freshmen. Trump was last in position to avoid the accident: forces electing Joseph Biden had no interest in Geopolitics, so the dictators ran the table. The gauntlet is set.

Leaning on decades of family association & Geopolitical mentoring with OSS/CIA/FBI and most recently TSA agents, it is a sad thing for this writer to opine we are now playing risky catch-up in Europe and Asia. Throw in the Middle East militant Mohammedanism contingent, putting America on the wall with Israel. General Mc Auliffe got it right!

China launches 1/2 dozen satellite missions per month; they make no secret their intentions to neutralize US communications & navigation satellites when the crisis comes. Fat dumb and happy US car & truck oligarchs boast of rush to AI directed motor vehicle fleet, including existential food distribution component. Note Peter Vincent Pry organization warnings on EMP/HAMP threat.

This writer's well detailed commentary on hows & whys of repair of dormant rail links into breadbasket regions can be searched easily. Politically improbable; orders of magnitude easier before the financial and existing transport and manufacturing systems are immobilized. Observe Ft Eustis, VA. RR unit template.

At best America is comfortably asleep; at worst, the failure of our educational system has produced multiple generations content to be blissfully ignorant of history to prevent any recognition of ugly parallels from the past.

We vote for discarded politicians who make us feel good, instead of those prepared to make the difficult - and correct - decisions. As we suffer through our governmental system lacking the critical vote of no confidence, Biden and his minions escape rightful criticism that in England would have thrown them out of office for their grotesque fiscal in Afghanistan; failed policies on energy and inflation; undefended border; now their dismal failure to appreciate Putin and prepare Ukraine in a timely manner.

At this moment, we have rightfully lost our swagger as we attempt to put the pieces together.

With sleepy Joe at the helm, nothing will be done to combat the evil intentions of Putin. The leaders in Europe have been asleep at the wheel for decades, they've been far too busy squabbling about who's in charge, who's doing what to whom and have tried to threaten and destabilise Britain because the British voted to leave the corrupt EU. Putin has taken it all in, taken advantage of the weaknesses and decided that Europe is so divided he will be able to attack Ukraine and then sit back and see what the squabbling nations will do to prevent him going too far. Putin also realises that with sleepy Joe running things there's not much to fear from the US. After all, it's Europe, not the US that's being attacked. The West's leaders have looked towards replacing their populations with Muslims who have apparently escaped war zones and landed in various countries claiming asylum. Along with the global economy and political infighting, the politicians haven't had the time to keep an eye on Putin. When things did become obvious as to his intent nothing was done anyway.

It seems to be very apparent that the US will do nothing about the hostile takeover of Ukraine. The only questions to ask are could we if we had the will, and would our supposed EU allies attack us if we did.