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Ukraine is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizaion, but it did have an agreement with us, which has proven to be all but meaningless.----Daniel Clark
This all needs to be crystallized into a short blurb or two in order to grasp the significance of that quote.
I assert that we can't keep the agreement with Ukraine because Russia can nuke us. Now, recall your history a bit here if you dare. Back in the days of the Bush Presidency, Russia imploded. Why did Russia implode? I assert that they did because they realized that their power over affairs was just about kaput. The USA just annihilated Saddam Hussein which showed military superiority in conventional weaponry. In nuclear weaponry, Bush was continuing the Reagan SDI program, which was delivering fruits. That fruit was a workable and economical system that could have been deployed for about 25 billion bucks. The Russians had to know this, and therefore they knew they were beaten. Not only the Russians, but their own people probably realized that they were beaten and so they gave in., At least for the moment.
Now, we get Bush breaking his no new taxes pledge, which divided the GOP and opened the way for Clinton. We've been on the downslope ever since.
When Rush Limbaugh said that it wouldn't be known as Reagan-Bush, but Bush-Clinton, boy did he get it right. For Bush broke the unity of the GOP which Reagan had forged. Clinton began the process that ended the nuclear military superiority which was well within reach. Now we've got Obama and he's out there negotiating with the Russians just like Neville Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler. From a position of weakness.
History has shown what happens when you do that.
Now the GOP fatcats are going to try to put another Bush in the White House. We've had two Bushes, and they both managed to fracture the party and lead to big Democrat successes.
If you don't learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.
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