It’s been a year since I blogged here, but the war in Ukraine has drawn me out finally.

Here is a link to my comments at Disqus, made most recently at American Conservative, at Rod Dreher’s blog.

As he’s Orthodox, his posts usually carry themes and information I find useful, but, while he is against the US being drawn into the war, he still makes a moral equivalence between both sides. That equivalence is ultimately soft support of the NATO position.

A limited war to address a serious security threat on a country’s borders and enforce treaty obligations might very well not even be a violation of international law.

I would have to look it up.

But intervening to end the bloody oppression of civilians and get rid of a government that is essentially a kleptocrat front likely meets the definition of a just war. Certainly, Russia has more justification in the Ukraine than America ever did in Iraq, and if I recall right, scholars like Jean Bethke Elshtain managed to defend that war on just war grounds [erroneously].

As for Zelensky, what can be said of a president who, instead of making absolutely reasonable concessions and thus limiting the damage to the population, opens the prison doors and lets out hardened criminals and puts automatic weapons into the hands of women and children?  Who teaches ordinary people to make Molotov cocktails to attack the best trained special operations forces in the world.

Zelensky is trying to increase Ukrainian civilian casualties. No question.

Consider his invitation to mercenaries and volunteers across the globe to show up in Ukraine to fight for his corrupt regime with free equipment given by NATO? How is this not anything but reckless, selfish, and completely contrary to the behavior of a truly courageous and responsible leader who would try to limit, not exacerbate, the bloodshed?

But then. it may not after all be Putin who harbors  dreams of blood and soil. There was, indeed, little evidence of that in the pragmatic speeches the Russian President gave on the eve of war.

But the billionaire backers of Zelensky [a Ukrainian Jew himself],  Igor Kolomoisky and Hennady Bogolyubov, who ran one of the largest frauds in banking history via PrivatGroup and PrivatBank, while also sitting as board members of various Jewish ethnic organizations, have already given their money to Jewish non profits in the US, some, like Chabad, fostering Jewish ethnic identity.

One needs to ask if the rebirth of a Ukrainian or Crimean homeland might actually be the goal of the Ukrainian Jews’ own territorial ambition?