Eric Zuesse -- U.S. Regime Thinks It Should Be ‘Calling the Shots’ in Ukraine’s War

 

 

U.S. Regime Thinks It Should Be ‘Calling the Shots’ in Ukraine’s War

 

Eric Zuesse, May 07, 2022

 

This is a commentary upon N.Y. Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s statement on May 6th that Ukraine’s Government is and ought to be the U.S. Government’s agent in its war against Russia, not representing the interests of the Ukrainian people in it. He introduced the statement by noting that Ukraine is a bad country,

 

a country marbled with corruption. That doesn’t mean we should not be helping it. I am glad we are. I insist we do. But my sense is that the Biden team is walking much more of a tightrope with Zelensky than it would appear to the eye — wanting to do everything possible to make sure he wins this war but doing so in a way that still keeps some distance between us and Ukraine’s leadership. That’s so Kyiv is not calling the shots [I boldfaced that — he didn’t] and so we’ll not be embarrassed by messy Ukrainian politics in the war’s aftermath.