When I launched MVE in April last year, I included Methow Valley in the name for a reason. I wanted it to be a real source of local information which has no political affiliation.
I came to realize, and it became more significant on Friday, that although we live in a small town, we are not immune from the world. I wrestled whether to include anything outside of local news in this paper. This is…
Well done, Julia
Thank you, Susan.
So what your saying is, more bullets and bombs for Zelensky and more debt for the USA?
Let’s fund the war until all that remain are women and children. If that happens too slowly, perhaps it would be best to donate nukes? If things escalate and the war comes to a town near you (maybe MV), it will all be worth while.
If only Biden were still our leader, he’d know what to do.
Thank you for your comment, John. I appreciate it. Ukraine didn’t start this war. They were invaded. The question is, what do they do? Should they appease and cede territory? Does Ukraine want weapons to destroy their own people or save them? There are deep layers, John. Look up the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. If Ukraine ever gets nuclear weapons, they will never give them up again. Nuclear disarmament is dead because the US can’t be counted on to fulfill their end of the agreement. You probably don’t want the US involved in anything, but that is not the reality on the ground. Woodrow Wilson, for years, didn’t want to get involved in World War I, but he eventually had to. We are more interconnected now. Nobody wants this war, least of all the Ukrainians. They want security guarantees. They don’t want a peace agreement that Russia will break when they re-arm. They know that a cease fire will give Russia time to re-arm. Russia has had a war with a neighbor each decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union. There are a lot of layers here, John.
Excellent column, thank you.
Thank you.