Our Mistakes Enabled, Empowered Putin
Vladamir Putin (AFP via Getty Images)
By Tawfik Hamid
Tuesday, 22 March 2022 10:37 AM
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine is an undeniable, painful fact. Yet it is important to evaluate the factors that encouraged the Russians to make such a move. In that vein, I offer the following:
First, ineffective spending of our military budget. The United States has spent trillions of dollars for military expeditions, such as sending soldiers to Afghanistan and then Iraq in what we have called the Global War on Terror.
Despite the enormous spending, the Taliban once again controls Afghanistan, and ISIS is re-emerging, committing heinous atrocities once again, its murderous ideology still alive and spreading.
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Sadly, we have given the world, including Russia, the impression that our government can be easily divided. This happened, for example, when one of the top U.S. military commanders said he would push back against an order from President Donald Trump for a nuclear strike if it were deemed illegal by the military.
Perhaps so. But it was unwise in the extreme to say such a thing in public.
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Irrespective of who occupies the executive office, he represents the will of most of the American people. Blocking the president, as social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have done, thereby impeding him from addressing the American people directly, has sent yet another message of weakness to our allies and adversaries alike — particularly when these companies continue to allow other world leaders hostile to America to continue to use their platforms.
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In short, the Russian invasion of Ukraine did not occur in a vacuum. It is fair to admit our mistakes that allowed this to happen so that we do not repeat them in the future.
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