Minnie’s Musings

So says one’s Best Beloved (BB).

We have been debating the implications of America’s big idea for ending the war in Ukraine. Which has been set according to an American deadline governed by an American holiday, brokered by an American posse with no regard for anyone’s opinion who is not American or America’s new best friend.

While there is some merit in the argument that Russia gets spooked by any former Soviet Bloc country who wants to join NATO (without stopping to wonder why any ex chattel state might think joining said defensive alliance might possibly be a good idea), it did not and never would give it a legitimate excuse to invade a sovereign nation.

My worry is that the European Coalition of the Willing is not yet in a position to go it alone against Russia. We are still too reliant on the USA for our continental security. And America clearly doesn’t see us being ready any time soon.

As the current administration indulges in more and abusive swagger and frankly ill thought out acts of violence at home and abroad (somehow convincing itself that it has ended seven or eight wars) there is the tiniest glimmer of hope.

The Republican Party, or at least 100 members of it, were prepared to support the bill to release the Epstein Files. Could they be scenting an opportunity to get rid of the orange bacon…? One can but hope.is