Petraeus: Mariupol will fall...

... to Putin-Becoming a Ukrainian "Alamo"

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So Petraeus is comparing the Ukrainians to the defenders of the Alamo. That's unfortunate. There is no comparison, in my opinion. The defenders of the Alamo were men. Nobody seems to know anymore what a man is supposed to be. Nor a woman, for that matter. What are the Ukrainians defending? What are they fighting? To be like us? Please. Not the way we are, but maybe the way were once were...

If you are accused of criticizing the rush to war with Russia, you are said to be "rootin' for Putin'. It should be said to these types that-- we don't swear allegiance to the current set of leaders. The allegiance we owe are to our laws as set forth by the Constitution. If obedience is required, it is also set forth by the same set of laws coming from the same. Obedience is demanded without the requisite effort at demonstration of their fitness for such a demand.

If there's to be a "democracy", then the people have a right to change their leaders. The current set of leaders want to rig the process so that there is no way to change the leadership. That's not democracy no matter how you spin it. It cannot be law, because the law is set up so that the truth can emerge. These set of leaders attempt to prevent the truth from emerging with their attempts at censorship. The censorship is not lawful, as the Bill of Rights says "Congress shall make no law". Indeed, if there is to be a Republic at all, there has to be some unifying principle rule that underlies it. That would be the rule of law. These present leaders are not in accord with those laws, and having made that plain time and again, how can they be for that either? They are not for anything but themselves.

Consequently, if being against the current leadership somehow makes a person a traitor, then it is time for a whole lot of it! For these people are not worthy of leadership. If there were to be an honest election, they would have no power, and that would happen in short order.

Their current situation is temporary unless they can rig it to being permanent. That's the bottom line. For them, and for everyone else. That's true no matter which side you come down on.

If it takes "treason" to fix that, then we need a whole lot of treason. A scene from the movie Braveheart should illustrate the point.

Never in my whole life did i swear allegiance to ...[replace him with them]

We don't owe these current leaders anything at all. Since they violate the law with impunity because of a rigged system, their removal may well promote freedom, the rule of law, and democracy. Hopefully we will have an honest election, and this can happen. Otherwise, they can claim "democracy" and "rule of law", but those will be empty words.