QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS:

As we read the headlines, quotations and directives on the issues of the day, some questions come to mind with regard to the war between Russia and the Ukraine and the question of a final resolution for Gaza. Some things just don’t make sense. There are no answers below, just Questions:

QUESTIONS – The Russian-Ukrainian War:

Does anyone understand the “warm relationship” evidenced between Trump and Putin?

It doesn’t seem to be a matter of who or how the Ukraine is being ruled. That’s an internal issue for the Ukrainians.

Why has Putin been “allowed” to invade another country, the Ukraine, without severe international consequences?

Why is he being allowed to “negotiate” on his own terms?

He is seemingly allowed to negotiate from the basis of the new reality he has created.

Why is the Ukraine obligated to surrender Ukrainian territory that was taken by the Soviets in a Soviet-initiated war?

Why should the Ukraine have to then reward the US (a moderator who clearly favors Russia) with mineral rights in the Ukraine for negotiating an unfavorable ceasefire?? 

The aggressor (a long-term dictatorship and warmonger) is being rewarded and the defender punished – for America’s gain?

Is this the new American way?

Questions  -  Gaza Solutions:

Whose idea was it that Trump or the US (or anyone else) should take over Gaza and rule it as autonomous territory?

“..Or all hell will break loose” (which it hasn’t).  Is that vague and so far empty threat the only or best way to ‘assist’ Israel? 

Did not the US (not Trump, of course) create the current problem in the first place by “encouraging” Sharon to force Israeli citizens, business owners, farmers, out of their homes and cities, to be replaced by “grateful” Arabs.

In addition, the new Gazans by donations and negotiation were freely given a working and profitable agricultural enterprise which they promptly destroyed. How did that benefit anyone?

How will the US will “take over the area” in order to restore peace? Who will live there in peace?

The current “innocent” citizen that violently hates every Jew, every Israeli?

QUESTIONS – Sinai Threat:

Why has Egypt been allowed to insert a large military base,  arms, equipment and thousands of soldiers, into the Sinai on the southern border with Israel?

It is clear infringement of the peace treaty with Israel? Why weren’t they stopped, by the US, the UN, Israel, anybody? 

Who is the enemy they are trained and prepared to fight using their advanced American weaponry?

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As you consider the possible answers to these questions, it would be good to ask one more question and look at the historical answer:

QUESTION – Cessation of War:

In which American war since WWII has the US absolutely defeated a terrorist/insurgent enemy with a surrender and an end to the fighting? 

Might I suggest we review the history of just the most recent long wars? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Korea? 

Without going into the justification or the details of the wars, consider this:

Victory and Defeat do not seem to be popular endings for wars and insurgencies in our time. There is no actual end, no winner, no loser, to end any of the above and many other localized wars. Since the wars never end, people continue to fight and die. There is a measurable increase in the number of wars, both between countries and within them.

Maybe, just maybe, we are doing something wrong?