To the editor: A current letter to the editor requested the rhetorical query of what if the U.S. mentioned “not our struggle” in different historic situations (“Letters to the Editor: Global alliances ‘endure when responsibilities are shared and not avoided,’” March 21)? The letter author additionally referenced the U.S.’s involvement within the struggle in Ukraine.
The reply is just: Russia was clearly the aggressor. Ukraine didn’t launch an invasion of Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine, because it had performed equally with different former Soviet socialist “republics” that had gained independence on the breakup of the us.
Iran didn’t invade or try to invade both the US or Israel. And there was a signed treaty, the Joint Complete Plan of Motion, safeguarding towards Iran turning into a nuclear weapons menace, 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 totally chargeable for the implications.
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 usually are not, nor ought to they be, obligated to be our enablers.
Invoice Seckler, Riverside
