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Ukraine comparison
is way off base
Re: “Ukraine seems like another phony domino” (Page A6, Sept. 13).
It is hard to imagine a more historically and politically ignorant comparison than that of Ukraine with the “phony” domino theory espoused concerning Vietnam. The accurate comparison is to that of Adolf Hitler who launched a campaign to dominate Europe.
Hitler lied to cover his intent. Vladimir Putin, a brutal murder boss, has not even bothered to lie. Putin explicitly said he desires to rebuild the Soviet Union and demonstrated his resolve by invading Georgia in 2008 and now Ukraine twice, including with Russian “volunteers” in 2014. Like the Soviets, Putin would not even be happy within the former Soviet borders, as he has demonstrated in Syria and Africa.
World War II was the result, with over 30 million deaths in Europe, because Hitler was not stopped. Putin must be.
Another note: Donald Trump has never criticized the invasion. One dictator want-to-be admires another.
Eliot Hudson
Lafayette
Break up AI firms
before harm is done
I did not elect Elon Musk. Or Mark Zuckerberg. Or Bill Gates, for that matter.
Yet, these privileged, White businessmen feel obliged to decide how my life is governed. They do this on the hypocritical notion of national security.
Meetings behind closed Senate doors are never in America’s best interest. They only profit the corrupt.
It’s time to break up the AI empires with anti-trust legislation. Just remember, in their 30 years of programming, did they ever include you, me or any of us?
Jean Paulsen
Livermore
GOP hides lack of
policy behind age talk
Discussion of the president’s age is a deflection being propagated by his political opponents because they have no substantive counter to the effective job he’s doing as president. How can he be too old for a job that he’s currently doing well?
President Biden has passed generational improving legislation (infrastructure, climate, chip manufacturing, gun safety, etc.) while at the same time reinvigorating, coordinating (against Vladimir Putin’s aggression), and expanding the NATO alliance — an alliance by the way that has provided peace and prosperity for decades. It can be argued that Biden has been the most successful president of the United States at passing generational domestic legislation since Lyndon B. Johnson (Medicare and civil rights) and the most successful at foreign policy since Harry Truman (NATO).
Discussion of age demonstrates the lack of a policy argument.
Barry Gardin
Hayward
Source: www.mercurynews.com