THE END IS NIGH IN UKRAINE

 As any thinking being would have foreseen 3 years or 30 years ago, the war between Ukraine and Russia is coming to a close. It's not going to end the way Europe wanted it to at any price/any cost and it is not ending the way that Russia wanted it to end but it is coming to its inevitable end and the question that dogs us now is, "is there any room for the United States in NATO now that the War Is Finally Over?

The Winter War saw the pluckiest little country on earth go up against Russia and it too ended as if foreordained. Finland never had the people or the wealth to beat the Soviets and knew it but still fought it out until the very end and all that death and destruction was for nothing at all. So it is with Ukraine except Ukraine's was not a national war of survival against an overreaching and horrific ideology but the conclusion of 15 years of twisting the Bear's tail until it came off in their hands. It came off in Europe's hands too but they are going to walk away from this with nothing more than totally destroyed economies and a moribund industrial base crippled by the idiocy of the EU's energy policies led by the stupid twits in Germany.

Well over a million men dead in a terrible and pointless war with three times that many wounded and crippled and it was all for what? It certainly wasn't any kind of fight to keep and make democracy free or to preserve the Western way of life because both of those are dead and buried now in western Europe and I don't see any hope at all for their resurrection. The EU is now again simply stepping in and cancelling elections and throwing out any results they don't like as they did with the various EU Treaty votes named Amsterdam, Lisbon and Maastricht. It got so bad after France voted no that most of the EU didn't put it to the people if they wanted to join but left it to the paid hacks in government who were paid to feather their own nests at the people's expense.

One of the downsides with involving ourselves in this even at the level of foisting peace talks on the unwilling is the idea that we may be open to that it is now our job to impose peace that one party does not seek. That would be a profound mistake. There is absolutely no doubt that Western Europe and Ukraine will only maintain a peace as long as it suits them and the instant they perceive an advantage they will jump back into war with both feet and hope to surprise Russia with their obvious lies and deceit.

I wonder if more people elected to flee Ukraine then actually voted for Maastricht....The EU is not looking anything like friendly territory anymore and it is looking an awful lot more like a dictatorship than Russia does these days. Are we sure we want to be in a military alliance of loose cannons who hate free speech, free elections and the right of self-determination?