Senator John McCain incites protesters in Ukraine in 2014.
Target Ukraine: America’s Interventionist
Foreign Policy Continues to Destabilize the World
Benjamin Ayanian / The Hill
WASHINGTON (June 4, 2024) — The US also played an integral role in the events that lead [sic] to the devastating war between Russia and Ukraine. Despite the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO endured and expanded eastward, which even George Kennan, one of the formulators of US Cold War policy, warned would be “a tragic mistake” that would provoke “a bad reaction from Russia.”
For over a decade now, against the warnings of former ambassador to Russia and current CIA Director William Burns, the US has openly advocated for Ukrainian entry into NATO, a hard red line for Russia.
Even though meddling in Ukraine was unacceptable to the Russians, the US went as far as to support a coup to overthrow the elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2014 after he announced that he would sign an economic deal with Russia instead of the E.U. This directly led to war between the two Eastern European nations.
Then, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Russia sent NATO a draft treaty in 2021, requiring NATO to promise to abandon any future plans of expansion as a precondition to not invading Ukraine. The West refused. Only then did Russia invade. The invasion, while reprehensible, certainly did not come out of nowhere.
Instead of continuing to send billions more to Ukraine and helping them strike inside Russian territory, the US should reconsider its involvement in Eastern Europe altogether. Without American meddling, the current war — and all of the death and destruction it has brought — would likely never have occurred.
Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych, toppled in US-backed coup.
Every day the United States tries to police the world. While doing so, the government tells Americans that our country is an unalloyed force for good on the global stage, fighting for democracy, making life better for the citizens of foreign nations and securing a safer world for all. This, we are told, justifies our hawkish stance and our proclivity to meddle in foreign affairs.
But our track record flies in the face of these proclamations. American interventionism has led to needless death, destruction, geopolitical instability, increased animosity toward the West, wasted taxpayer dollars and the erosion of our citizen’s constitutional rights.
The US needs to reverse course immediately and adopt a noninterventionist foreign policy.
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