Allies (mostly America) Diddles While Ukraine Burns

Not exactly Nero in the days of the fall of Rome, these current chiefs of state, but close enough to rhyme. Mark Twain famously said “history never repeats, but it rhymes” and I’ll give him that.

A recent article in the Guardian headlined “Former senior diplomats urge west to ‘go all in’ on military support for Ukraine” caught my eye a day or two ago and I very much agree. If you’ve read me at all lately, you know I feel we’ve shamelessly allowed Ukraine to swing in the wind from the very get-go. Part of the American historic rhyme tells us that if France hadn’t jumped in with support back in 1776, there wouldn’t even be an America to embarrass itself in Ukraine.

We’d be dealing with incapable Tory MPs, instead of a shit-for-brains Congress.

Is the West really a force in the free world anymore?

The subtitle of the article says, “Group also made up of former high-level military advisers say ‘actions still fail to match the rhetoric.’”

“The urgent warning comes from an authoritative group in…