Unsolicited Advice for Those Defending Ukraine, and Those Who Suppose Animosity

If I am known for anything, I hope it is the hubris with which I give unsolicited advice to the unbothered. I will show you!


Defenders of Ukraine, with regard to President Donald Trump, we enter an unusual time! Most Presidents of the United States write things down that they want to say, and even have other people look them over. Donald is not like that. But, he has demonstrated an ability to back off of a problem if it seems like it would be best.


If he says something that is a boon to Ukraine, snap it up like a crocodile going after a zebra. However, if he stumbles into something, no matter how seemingly grim or potentially dangerous, please give him two weeks. There is a 30% chance that he will double back on his own within two weeks. I completely made up that percentage chance, by the way. Anyway, the best response to a Trump ‘tweet’ may simply be to wait and see. After two weeks, have at him!


Additionally, the envoy may fall after another hundred days, the future is never written. If so, there will be another, Celebrity Apprentice style! Let us hope that the second possesses the wisdom of one of my own American finger waggers, Thomas Paine.


In the cold days of formation on the Delaware River, our thinker hoped that time would not be wasted. “[Let us set] forth the miseries we have endured and the peaceable methods we have ineffectually used for redress.” We know that the Ukrainians will not benefit from a time out, but rather seek a just and lasting peace.


Paradoxically, the only way to guarantee a just and lasting peace is now through continued war. Putin will not stop, he must be stopped. How strange to argue in this way, but I call upon the ghost of a long dead friend, the greatest diplomat of the 16th century, to persuade you.


“With us there is great justice, because that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope, but in them.” Niccolo Machievelli, The Prince.


Is this war just? It is just, and I go further, it is righteous. What Niccolo suggests, is the legitimate use of sovereign authority–in harmony with morality, custom, and public opinion. J.J. “Dynamite” Rousseau would absolutely agree.


Finally, to those who may suppose themselves my enemies. I recognize the burden of those human beings who fled Russia to avoid participation in an unjust war. I also recognize those who were imprisoned, as well as any of those harmed as a result of resistance. I do not know you, but I think about you, and your burden is righteous. Thank you. 

 

 

 

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