As Biden escalates, Brazil's Lula calls for peace in Ukraine.
Here’s how it begins.
I remember how it started in Vietnam.
It began with a handful of U.S. military advisors.
U.S. troops peaked in 1968 when President Johnson put half a million soldiers on the ground.
Over a year since the Russian invasion began Biden is escalating our involvement. So far, the US has deployed military advisors to the Ukrainian military command.
The U.S. is directly involved in the planning and execution of operations against Russian forces, allowing American mercenaries to do the fighting and continues a steady supply of tens of billions of dollars worth weaponry.
As in Vietnam, this can end very badly.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that the United States should stop “encouraging” the war in Ukraine.
The Brazilian president, known affectionately by his people as Lula, recently was elected over the Brazilian version of Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro.
Said Lula, “I have a theory that I have already defended with Macron, with Olaf Scholz of Germany, and with Biden, and yesterday, we discussed at length with Xi Jinping. It is necessary to constitute a group of countries willing to find a way to make peace.”
The Chinese leader Xi Jinping has previously offered his country as a broker for peace which the United States responded to dismissively.
“The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace; the European Union needs to start talking about peace so that we can convince Putin and Zelensky that peace is in the interest of everyone and that war is only interesting, for now, to the two of them,” Lula told reporters in Beijing.
Like many other countries in the global south, Brazil and President Lula has adopted a policy of non-intervention in Ukraine, rebuffing efforts led by Joe Biden’s call to support the war.
I was born in the first part of 1943. The isolationists had battled to keep us out of the war, as others were invaded, one by one.
I can remember the arguments very well, because I knew some of the isolationists. Family members. The differences were irreconcilable.
I don't agree with you, Fred. I understand the impulse, but I simply cannot share it.
This is not Vietnam. This is more akin to when Hitler invaded Poland or when Japan invaded Pacific Islands and the Philippines etc. You don’t get to invade a sovereign, independent country without consequences. Putin needs to get out of Ukraine, simple, then there can be peace.