The
United States has supplied lethal arms to Ukraine since the Obama
administration. Presently the administration is complaining and
'warning' China against supplying the same to Russia, as if China
need necessarily comply with the United States on foreign policy
goals or ever has.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/u-s-warns-china-not-to-send-weapons-to-russia-for-ukraine-war/ar-AA17GoO5?cvid=7804b5c4952946a7b13e30b3d79dd9bd
Unintelligent
leadership can bring less than desirable results. The Democrat Party
has consistently demonstrated an inability to comprehend the
consequence of their actions. Instead of selecting lines of foreign
policy relations that are realistic they select lines that are
optimal for-themselves and label their opponent criminal. Democrat
lawyer-Presidents believe international law supports whatever they
choose to do in effect, as the 'leader' of the 'free' world with less
than half of the world's population.
The
Biden administration sent its first large shipment of weapons to
Ukraine January 2022- before the start of the Ukraine war. The
weapons build up demonstrated U.S. intent, especially as it
encouraged the Baltic states to send weapons to Ukraine, and may have
been a trigger for Russia to invade before things got worse.
From
2014 to the start of the Ukraine war the U.S. ‘committed’ 30
billion dollars to Ukrainian security according to a report by the
Congressional Budget Office.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040
-report may no longer be
available
https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/22/us-sends-first-shipment-of-military-aid-to-ukraine-amid-standoff-with-russia
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/lethal-weapons-to-ukraine-a-primer/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/us/politics/us-ukraine-weapons.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/788874844/how-u-s-military-aid-has-helped-ukraine-since-2014
https://news.yahoo.com/us-weapons-sales-in-europe-are-booming-as-russias-war-in-ukraine-continues-to-rage-215801466.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/29/arms-sales-united-states-nato-russia-ukraine-war-the-arsenal-of-democracy-is-back-in-business/
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts
Some
have noted the basic inability of Democrats to adjust to the end of
Cold War I and form good new relations with Russia. Much of the U.S.
economy and several states with Democrat party federal delegations
had invested in Cold War production and defense related capabilities.
It seems as if the economic base and inertia brought the Democrat
Party to revert to hostile foreign relations although for a time in
the 1990s it seemed as if a new. better and different footing was
growing. The Ukraine War is a logical result of the traditional
belligerent U.S. relationship with Russia. Democrat party desire to
dictate China's foreign policy regarding Russia is equally an
assertion of what might be viewed by China as hegemonic imperialism.
It
is possible that China will supply a fraction of U.S. lethal weapons
support to Ukraine to Russia in order to defrappe N.A.T.O.'s
hegemonic expansion eastward. China has invested much in Russia's
arctic and supports development of Russian natural resources
including oil and gas in order to have plentiful, stable, cheap
energy to replace unreliable western supplies that could be cut off
in the future when the Democrat Party deems sanctions appropriate.
U.S. leadership may need to accept the fact that China has different
interests than the U.S.A. in the Arctic, Russia and Asia and is still
a growing economy the U.S. relies upon for manufacturing. With China
and India as Russian friends or neutrals the supply of cheap labor
may dry up for U.S. capitalists. A realistic foreign policy would
have settled the Ukraine affair long ago with concessions to Russia
that recognized their historical and valid claims to own much if not
all of Ukraine. The E.U. and the Democrat Party have a different
narrative of course.
Chinese
leadership may supply substantial quantities of weapons to Russia in
order to prevent a Russian defeat before the 2023 U.S. Presidential
election when a Republican has a better than even chance of being
elected. A Republican President probably could bring a negotiated end
to the war by cutting off continuing arms shipments to Ukraine.
Restoring good relations with Russia is rather important if the
United States is to continue to participate in a global economy
without a significant east-west split. The split global economy
probably wouldn't be helpful for U.S. capitalists at all. The Chinese
and Indian economies are growing while the U.S.A. has low economic
growth and vast public debt relying on cheap Chinese imports for
consumers. U.S. capitalists have invested a lot in China in Asian
production.
Present
prosperity for concentrated wealth in the United States that owns
much of the national income- more than 50% goes to a tiny minority of
citizens, may have led Democrat leadership to a certain degree of
hubris in its will to power through lawsuits and military force.
Peaceful evolutionary economics transition as swiftly as possible to
ecological economic durability with such a great population is much
preferred to war so far as U.S. national interests are concerned.
