Watching Russia's invasion of Ukraine
shakes my own understanding of American power
USA Today,
by
Mara Bellaby
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/27/2022 9:27:01 PM
I’m heartbroken.
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has unsettled me in a way that even the life-changing COVID-19 pandemic hadn’t.
I lived in the Ukrainian capital from 2004 to 2006 – two of the best years of my journalism career and two very happy years of my life. I ran The Associated Press' Kyiv bureau, having arrived there from my previous AP reporting job in Moscow. My Ukrainian colleagues became good friends. They were patient with my often stumbling Russian and my endless questions. Even the camo-wearing, gun-toting guard who responded to our office alarm every time I accidentally tripped it when working too early, or too late, was kind. Weekends, I explored Kyiv.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 2/27/2022 9:27:27 PM (No. 1085032)
Mugged by reality. The whole world turned upside down.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/27/2022 9:43:30 PM (No. 1085055)
After 20+ years. America high tailed it out of Afghanistan leaving billions behind. Do you think a war with Russia is wise? A war in winter?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/27/2022 9:48:15 PM (No. 1085063)
If you worked for the disassociated press you helped cause the problem.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/27/2022 9:56:55 PM (No. 1085070)
"...the United States, still the most powerful nation in the world, nurtured Ukraine on this democratic path and could intervene to stop the bloodshed"
The USA stepping in militarily would only increase the bloodshed...exponentially and exorbitantly..to a degree not seen since Gallipolli..It would not stay within Ukraines borders for even a day, likely involve every navy all around the globe, totally bypassing the "Air Phase" and most of the "Ground Phase"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/27/2022 9:58:32 PM (No. 1085073)
...at that point the ONLY next step is Missiles.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rubinski 2/27/2022 10:01:57 PM (No. 1085076)
So Biden and company goaded Putin into a war in the hope of destroying him at the expense of Ukraine, risking a nuclear war in the meantime.
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When America runs on petroleum and must import petroleum from Russia because it refuses to produce all of the petroleum it needs America has no power. That is all you need to know about "American Power."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
watashiyo 2/27/2022 10:23:35 PM (No. 1085113)
Russia took Crimea when Doorknob Hussein and BiteMe were in the WH. And now under BiteMe, we lost Afghanistan and soon Ukraine. Do we see a pattern here?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 2/27/2022 11:42:07 PM (No. 1085160)
A very interesting mini essay on life in Kyev as a reporter and a brief discussion about Vladimir Putin. In recent years I have been deceived by the Main Stream Media. Ms Bellaby worked for Associated Press. Associated Press has been 'associated' with countless lies about the 2020 election and anti-Donald Trump propaganda. Anything coming from that organization must, therefore, be viewed as suspect. Sorry, but that is the way it is.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Geoman 2/28/2022 1:31:42 AM (No. 1085199)
Like the author, I'm sick about Russia's attack and the sorry state of American power under this passel of pig-headed perverts, whose sole focus is political fantasy, not the human tragedy these Anti-American cretins helped create. Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons based on assurances that the US and the EU would provide cover against the type of naked aggression that is unfolding. Meanwhile, Ukraine's cultural, transportation and economic centers are being destroyed and its people killed. I feel like helping those people for much the same reason I spent 30 years in law enforcement. Right now no American politician is demonstrating effective leadership.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 2/28/2022 2:06:25 AM (No. 1085214)
Joe has approved this invasion, he's getting his 10%, of course.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
swarfer 2/28/2022 2:11:57 AM (No. 1085219)
This war should never have happened. When you box in a nuclear power, there are consequences, right or wrong.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 2/28/2022 5:17:40 AM (No. 1085279)
As someone said many, many years ago, America has great power, but understands very little with respect to how to use it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Submariner 2/28/2022 8:57:02 AM (No. 1085403)
I had to skim almost the entire article to before I got to her point about American power, which was gosh, as much as I like the Ukraine we really can't intervene in this crisis. OK...what did you think? And not one word about the contrast of the state of the world when President Trump was in office and today.
Working for the AP that long took a toll.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/28/2022 1:47:17 PM (No. 1085737)
Some of these comments are surreal. 'Biden goaded Putin into war'. I wonder what color the sky is on that person's home planet?
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