Verbal handwringing, nervous foreboding.
“Europe Prepares to Face Russia as America Steps Back,” a headline from the New York Times read this week. “Trump to abandon Ukraine,” read the Daily Hampshire Gazette. “After three years of war in Ukraine, Europe’s security guarantees face the abyss,” read a CNN report.
These stories highlight a portion of the American intelligentsia struggling to accept the failed outcome of what many pundits, including diplomat Jeffrey Sachs, said was doomed from the start.
At the risk of sounding brash, I’d like to suggest things might’ve been otherwise.
That’s right: The Ukraine war effort, at least as it pertains to the U.S., would’ve had a better chance … if it hadn’t gone woke.
Why so?
Because, by making Ukraine ground zero for the U.S.’s new, neo-liberal, woke, colonial experiment, its jockeys hitched its future to a losing horse.
The evidence of Ukraine's wokeness is apparent.
To begin with, I’ve written elsewhere about how the Biden State Department, as a matter of policy, linked U.S. grant money to a commitment by the country accepting the money to teach critical race theory and transgenderism. This claim was only bolstered by recent reports of woke spending by USAID, leaving the fair assumption that such can be expected in Ukraine, as well.
Further, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself, a left-wing former comedian, was reportedly installed by the Obama administration to serve as a Russian antagonist, the latter country being one that, according to Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, fears the fetishistic West. Putin “doesn’t share these progressives’ agenda,” Dugin told Tucker Carlson in an interview last year, claiming that the Russian leader has restored “traditional values, sovereignty of the state, Christianity, and traditional family.” According to Dugin, these moral differences – more than anything else – have been the driving force between the two countries’ political strains over the past two and a half decades.
I’ll never forget turning on the internet and seeing Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, American transgender spokesperson for Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, and thinking, “What exactly are we doing over there?”
All this is beside the reports of Ukrainian biolabs à la Wuhan and the evidence that literally every globalist leader in Europe has made Ukraine its central concern, prompting the legitimate expectation that what we are creating out of Zelenskyy is just another Starmer, Macron or Scholz.
A Gallup poll from December shows that more people want the war to end than to continue. It’s my belief that the facts highlighted above, as well as the Biden administration’s own governing incompetence, have accumulated in such a way that to many, our foreign policy seems, at best, misguided and, at worst, harmful.
In a meeting with French leader Emmanuel Macron on Monday, President Trump reiterated his desire for a quick end to the Russia-Ukraine war. “It looks like we’re getting very close,” he said about related negotiations.
This is sad news to many. However, part of the wind at Trump’s back is the fact that most Americans seem to want an end to the conflict. This is arguably due, at least in part, to the wokeness of the previous administration, particularly in the area of foreign policy … proving that, at least in Ukraine, going woke is, indeed, going broke.
Along with his father, Allen Keller runs a lumber business in Stevenson, Alabama. He has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University and an MBA from University of Virginia. He can be reached for comment at allen@kellerlumber.net.
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