Why I’m not particularly sympathic to the Ukraine cause 🇺🇦

War is a terrible thing. The United States shouldn’t be subsiding it through handing over weapons to warring powers, taking sides or sympathies in fights where the United States has no dog in the fight. There really is no moral difference between giving bombs to Russia or Ukraine – they’re just being used to kill people.

War hurts all involved. It’s not just the Ukrainian people who are suffering, so are many ordinary Russians including those trying to flee their country to avoid political prosecution and those are struggling to make ends meet. Not the oligarchs but the ordinary people. War hurts all, especially the common man.

To say nothing of the Americans who are paying for the war with inflation, high gas prices and energy bills, fear of the United States being attacked either in Cyberspace or the real world with nuclear weapons or other methods. Just imagine if potent high levels of dioxins or radioactive materials were spread into public places.

Americans should focus on their homeland first. What’s happening in Ukraine is awful but a lot of ordinary Americans are suffering. Rather than send aid to Ukraine, why aren’t we helping children in Appalachia or the ghetto get healthy meals, decent housing and health care and a good education? Maybe helping our neighbors is boring compared to vivid color images of those suffering from war, but we should care about our neighbors just like people in Ukraine and Russia do themselves during their time of suffering.