{"id":388806,"date":"2018-12-12T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-over-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:15:11","slug":"war-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-over-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"War Over Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, the United States and Allies conducted an extraordinary flight under the Open Skies Treaty. The timing of this flight is intended to reaffirm U.S. commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations.\u200e<\/p>\n

The United States is resolute in our support for the security of European nations.<\/p>\n

\u2013Department of Defense news release<\/a>, Dec. 6, 2018<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who wants to go to war against Russia in defense of Ukraine over the Kerch Strait, which lies between the Black and Azov seas and between Russia\u2019s Taman Peninsula and Russian-annexed Crimea?<\/p>\n

A show of hands, please.<\/p>\n

But careful: don\u2019t misconstrue my question. I\u2019m not asking who wants the \u201cUnited States\u201d to go to war. I\u2019m asking, rather: who is personally <\/i>willing to fight the Russian military over the strait? Or: who is willing to see his or her sons and daughters fight, kill, and die in that cause?<\/p>\n

Now, again, a show of hands, please. Anyone? No one? I didn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

Who could blame you? Are Americans supposed to be eager to drop everything to go wherever the U.S. government decides they should go to kill and die in its Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/i>-ish geopolitical games? And short of fighting personally, must they pay the economic price \u2014 the taxes surrendered and opportunities forgone \u2014 that is required to maintain a military establishment capable of playing those games throughout the world?<\/p>\n

What does individual freedom amount to if Americans are subject to a regime\u2019s orders to enlist \u2014…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo Source NASA | CC BY 2.0 Today, the United States and Allies conducted an extraordinary flight under the Open Skies Treaty. The timing of this flight is intended to reaffirm U.S. commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations.\u200e The United States is resolute in our support for the security of European nations. \u2013Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}