The British Minister for Africa Vicky Ford led off the parade. Perhaps swinging above her pay grade (and outside of her continent), she told Parliament: “The U.K. is very clear: any military incursion by Russia into Ukraine would be a strategic mistake. The Russian government should expect significant strategic consequences. The cost of an invasion would be catastrophically high.” Her threat, as reported in Politico Europe, assumedly was on behalf of what the United Kingdom could get the U.S. to carry out.
Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker on Fox Dec. 7 blathered: “I would not rule out military action. I think we start making a mistake when we take options off the table, so I would hope the president keeps that option on the table.” It includes “that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea and we rain destruction on Russian military capability. I would not rule out American troops on the ground.” And the U.S. shouldn’t “rule out first-use nuclear action.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) compared Putin to the Nazis: “Russia advances till they hit a brick wall. We can be the brick wall, or we can retreat from the Sudetenland and hope he doesn’t intend to rebuild all the Soviet Union. History repeats itself but we always deny it’s happening.” Kinzinger’s command of history went unchallenged.
Kinzinger may have gone to school under the infamous Victoria Nuland, the architect of the 2014 Nazi coup in Ukraine, who explained to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Dec. 7: “The concern is that President Putin’s public lamentations and private lamentations about the demise of the Soviet Union have gotten noisier and stronger over the years. The concern is that he is, as a legacy project, seeking to reconstitute the Soviet Union.”
