Sheldon Richman: Keep the U.S. Out of Ukraine’s Mess

President Obama insists he does not regard the
conflict in Ukraine “as some Cold War chessboard in which we are in
competition with Russia.” He’d be more credible if he were not
following his predecessors in acting as though the Cold War still
exists. Although the Soviet empire, including its Warsaw Pact
alliance, disbanded beginning in 1989, Republican and Democratic
presidents have pursued aggressively anti-Russian policies up
to the present. One thing we can know for sure, writes Sheldon
Richman, is that the United States should steer clear of Ukraine.
It is none of the U.S. government’s business whether that country
is economically closer to Russia or the European Union.

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