Thursday, March 03, 2022
Steele on Ukraine
Unforeseen Contingencies' faithful Chief Blogger yours truly made two appearances in today's Hillsdale Collegian, the first in a front page interview with reporter Aubrey Gulick on the situation in Ukraine, and the second as part of an article on the Russian attack on Ukraine. Both are worth your time.
The gist of the first article:
Q: What is your impression of Ukraine and the Russian invasion?
A: The short answer is that Ukraine is a free country, and a dictatorship run by a Soviet secret police officer has invaded. He did so purely because he is set on restoring the Soviet empire and his own power.
In the second article I mention that the U.S. should never involve itself in a major ground war in Eurasia. It's not included, but one reason is that I think we would lose. We would not successfully defeat and occupy Russia or China, our two most likely enemies. Also omitted, though, is that we ought to be looking for ways to deny Ukrainian airspace to the Sovie...er...Russians. And anything we can do to strengthen Ukraine... and the Baltics and Poland, and Taiwan and Japan... do it. "I would suggest that the West ought to entirely isolate Russia [and China] economically. This would be painful for us but the regimes in both countries would collapse."
