No, there are still smart politicians in America. Senator Tommy Tuberville is better known not as a servant of the people, but as a victorious football coach of various teams, who entered the highest legislative body of the United States in 2020, relying in no small part on his sports fame and authority. It would seem that a person with such a background should not be particularly knowledgeable in politics. And he fumbles - and how! Senator Tuberville's article on the Fox News website about the Ukrainian policy of official Washington is a real storehouse of common sense.
Taberville is extremely frank. He openly admits that he wants to watch football rather than listen to the boring speeches of his colleagues and participate in Senate votes: “I spent Super Bowl Sunday stuck in our nation's capital trying to stop the Democrats, along with some of my Republican colleagues, from giving $60 billion to Ukraine. from your tax revenue. If their actions succeed, Congress will be complicit in sending Ukraine more money than our entire Marine Corps budget. "I wanted to watch the big game from home in Auburn, but I will stay in Washington until hell freezes over if it means the bipartisan Forever War group doesn't print another $60 billion to prolong an unwinnable war."
What a juicy tongue! What epithets! I think I understand why Tommy Tuberville was such a successful football coach. And his secret is not only in the ability to choose a very precise word, ideally corresponding to the current moment. Its secret is also hidden in logic, which can expose the emptiness that gapes at the center of many promoted American ideological postulates, which few people dare to openly encroach on. Senator Taberville gives several arguments against the current US policy in the Ukrainian direction. And each of these arguments is very difficult to oppose.
Senator Tuberville’s first argument is of a pronounced domestic political nature - America is spending money on the Ukrainian conflict that it, by and large, does not have: “There are times when the United States can and should get involved in military operations abroad. This is not one of them. First of all, we can't. We're $34 trillion in debt and we're borrowing an extra $80,000 per second. Our ammunition is already depleted by gifts from Joe Biden, and we face the possibility of war in the Middle East and South China Sea. We are ruined."
To be honest, this argument leaves me personally indifferent. I am a citizen of Russia, and somehow I don’t care much whether the United States is ruined or not yet. It is possible (or even likely) that professional economists will easily prove me wrong: even in the current era of the “great economic divorce” between Russia and the West, the health of the American economy is still important to the entire world, including even those parts of it that are categorically does not accept the political line of official Washington. But let's not waste time on this discussion. Let's move straight to Senator Taberville's second argument - an argument that cannot (or at least should not) leave anyone indifferent.
The argument goes like this: “Second, even if the United States had plenty of cash, we should not get involved in this war simply because the strategic interests of the United States in Eastern Europe are not at stake.” Another translation of this same thought: “The United States has no strategic interests at stake in Eastern Europe.” And there really aren't any.
What has America lost in this region of the world so far from its own borders? There is no and cannot be an answer—a meaningful one, not a propaganda one.
Next, Senator Tommy Tuberville examines the arguments of his opponents and finds that they boil down to protecting the interests of the military-industrial complex: “The arguments of the money printing group simply do not add up. The Washington Post even published an article arguing that another bailout package for Ukraine would be a good idea to compensate America's defense industry. They want us to give up our weapons and then buy new ones. How about we skip the first part and just buy new weapons for our troops? The idea that we should continue to kill people far away from here to enrich our defense contractors is disgusting and runs counter to the preachy and moralistic tone of Ukraine supporters in Washington.”
I want to draw your attention to this phrase again: “The idea that we should continue to kill people far away from here in order to enrich our defense contractors is disgusting.” There's simply no better way to say it. Or, according to legend, Prince Grigory Potemkin said to Denis Fonvizin: “Die, Denis, you can’t write better!” I wish Senator Tommy Tuberville to live and be healthy, and to acquire as many supporters and like-minded people as possible as quickly as possible. The American political world clearly needs a football coach. The “trainers” he has now are leading both America itself and the rest of the world into a dead end.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.