While European NATO members are beginning to shy away from standing up to Russia, the United States, at least, is showing support for Ukraine. Barack Obama only likes NATO when they serve his purposes, anyway.
Samantha Powers, a normally dangerous hard left commie liberal, radically anti-Israel, wife of even more radical Cass Sunstein, is the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and she surprisingly took a hard stance regarding America's support for the victims of Russian aggression.
During a visit to Ukraine, she pledged American support to Ukraine, encouraging Ukrainians to "demand change."
"America is clear-eyed when it comes to seeing the truth about Russia's destabilizing" actions in Ukraine, she said, adding that U.S. support for Ukrainians is "unwavering."
If Russia "continues to violate the rules upon which international peace and security" stands," Power said, then the United States will "raise the costs on Russia" and "rally other countries to do the same."
"Their silence in the face of Russian aggression will not placate Moscow," she said. "It will only embolden it."
I doubt Power meant that any of that raised cost would involve military involvement in the region by U.S. Forces.
At least 6,350 people have been killed in violence "driven by Russians and the separatists," Power said. More than 1,000 are missing, more than 15,000 have been wounded, and the conflict has displaced at least 2 million people, she said.
She spoke about meeting a mother who had lost her 2-year-old child and husband in shelling and had fled her home in a van with her five other children. The vehicle's roof and sides had been blown out, Power said.
"The Ukrainian people are one of a kind, but the situation you find yourselves in is not," she said, adding that other countries around the world are threatened by a neighbor and are home to people who are powerless in the face of all-powerful leaders.
Those citizens "are watching you," she said.
Those leaders, she said, "are so rooting for you to fail."
Normally, the problem is that when leftists take these kinds of stances, they are empty threats. They know when and what to say things, but when it comes to brass tacks, they are all Neville Chamberlains. . . and Putin knows it.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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