The Uniparty’s Misbegotten Border Wars, Part 1

As usual, the Uniparty has it upside-down. The last thing we should be doing right now is spending even one more dime in support of Washington’s misbegotten proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, while the first priority should be revival of America’s stagflation-ridden domestic economy.

In turn, the latter requires the removal of as many Washington-erected barriers to free market prosperity as possible, but most especially sweeping reform of the utterly stupid and obsolete Federal laws which prohibit millions of work-seekers from legally entering US territory in a safe and orderly manner.

Yet rather than a large-scale Guest Workers program that would swiftly eliminate the current chaos at the Mexican border, the GOP-wing of the Uniparty insists on the opposite: Namely, a Border War crackdown on immigrants and the authority to waste tens of billions to arrest, detain and deport millions of potential workers at a time when the US economy desperately needs additional labor supplies—the native population having largely opted out of the baby-making business.

So the leadership of the Uniparty in the Senate is now busying itself with a soon to be announced “compromise” which will embody the worst of both worlds. To wit, another $75 billion draw on Uncle Sam’s depleted checkbook to prosecute both Sleepy Joe’s folly in Ukraine and the GOP’s mindless quest to keep what they fear to be future Democrat voters corralled on the south side of the Rio Grande.

In a word, the Uniparty pols are flunking Border Policy 101 big time. They want to bleed the US Treasury to enforce borders 5,000 miles away that were carved out by the bloody tyrants of the former Soviet Union, while building ridiculously pointless enforcement barriers on the Mexican Border where worker welcome stations and jobs fairs ought to be held instead.

As to the neocon proxy war with Russia, it should be evident by now that this is not about an “unprovoked” Russian invasion of its neighbor or the rule of law or the alleged sanctity of borders. For crying out loud, Washington has invaded, occupied or overthrown upwards of 85 governments since 1945—so it has no basis whatsoever for attempting to enforce someone else’s borders.

To the contrary, this is a territorial dispute and civil war in lands which have been vassals or integral parts of greater Russia for several centuries, and involves a state that did not even exist until Lennin, Stalin and Khrushchev confected it between 1918 and 1954. Here is how and when these brutal tyrants attached each piece of today’s Ukrainian map (in purple, light blue and red, respectively) to the territories acquired or seized by the Russian Czars over 1654-1917 (yellow).