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"When I lived there nobody had heard about Ukraine."

You are mostly correct, but I'm afraid, Hitler had, and Europeans today are obviously much more aware of their histories than we.  That said I find the response to the criminal attack upon Ukraine is so much more vigorous than of atrocities elsewhere in the world.  But then it’s only natural to be concerned about your own neighborhood first, and as the Leader of the Free World, the U.S. backs Western civilization as practiced on the continent.  Free speech, free assembly, and free and fair elections and we should always be ready to stand with small – d democrats wherever they rise up.

Far too long and often our governments of both parties made the horrible mistake of backing brutal dictators oppressing their population’s quest for freedom.  It was shameful, it did serious damage to our prestige in the world, and ultimately so seriously hindered economic development, that we face a flood of people who can no longer live in countries torn by decades of civil war.

How long can we continue to pretend there is no relationship between the corrupt governments of central America and the intense poverty of their people?  Someday we may account their suffering to climate change, but that isn’t the cause of the past century of neglect and abuse.   We have a name for a dysfunctional government, it’s called a “Banana Republic”, a reference to the corrupt, oppressive dictatorships we propped up at the bequest of the American fruit importers.

So how can WE criticize Putin for his disregard for the lives and property of the Ukrainian people, when we showed no more regard for our neighbors here in our backyard?  By admitting we were wrong then, and that Putin is wrong now.   My mom told me when I was just a very small boy that “Two wrongs don’t make a right”.  I guess that’s one of those things we learn in kindergarten that is well to remember.
 
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