To the editor: A current letter to the editor requested the rhetorical query of what if the U.S. stated “not our struggle” in different historic situations (“Letters to the Editor: World alliances ‘endure when obligations are shared and never prevented,’” March 21)? The letter author additionally referenced the U.S.’s involvement within the struggle in Ukraine.
The reply is solely: Russia was clearly the aggressor. Ukraine didn’t launch an invasion of Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine, because it had executed equally with different former Soviet socialist “republics” that had gained independence on the breakup of the united states.
Iran didn’t invade or try to invade both america or Israel. And there was a signed treaty, the Joint Complete Plan of Motion, safeguarding towards Iran changing into a nuclear weapons risk, offering for inspections of Iran’s nuclear program to make sure its enrichment solely reached the extent of reactor gasoline, however not weapons grade, signed in 2015. President Trump withdrew the U.S. from that treaty in 2018, throughout his first time period.
By all proof, Trump created the pretext for beginning this struggle, and must be held absolutely answerable for the results.
The North Atlantic Treaty Group was created to discourage aggression; it was not created, nor ever supposed, to facilitate it. Our European and Canadian allies should not, nor ought to they be, obligated to be our enablers.
Invoice Seckler, Riverside
