As painful as it might be to some, America’s role really is to look “on from a distance.”This article appeared in Antiwar.com on March 2, 2022.TOPWar brings out the worst in human beings. It wreaks death and destruction on a mass scale. It also highlights similar levels of political hypocrisy.Such as those piously pushing their governments to intervene to support Ukraine, after ignoring far more deadly conflicts, such as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which killed millions and displaced millions more. Or, even worse, those actively supporting foreign states currently engaged in even more destructive and murderous aggression, such as Saudi Arabia in Yemen, in which hundreds of thousands have died and the civilian population faces mass malnutrition and disease. US outrage at unprovoked foreign aggression tends to be ever so selective.Russia’s war on Ukraine has raised the perennial question of humanitarian intervention. Countries under attack typically seek white knights. So Ukrainians understandably would like the West, which in reality means America, to save them.As painful as it might be to some, America’s role really is to look “on from a distance.”Last week President Volodymyr Zelensky allowed: “Who is ready to fight with us? I do not see anyone. Who is ready to give Ukraine a guarantee of NATO membership? Everyone is afraid.” He acknowledged reality, telling his people that “The fate of Ukraine depends only on Ukrainians.
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