Ukraine: NATO

2008

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm

23: NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO.  We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.

Ukraine: Nuland's role

https://www.salon.com/2021/01/19/who-is-victoria-nuland-a-really-bad-idea-as-a-key-player-in-bidens-foreign-policy-team/

the people of Ukraine have heard of neocon Nuland. Many have even heard the leaked four-minute audio of her saying "Fuck the EU" during a February 2014 phone call with the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. 

During the infamous call on which Nuland and Pyatt appeared to be plotting to replace or undermine elected Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, Nuland expressed her not-so-diplomatic disgust with the European Union for favoring former heavyweight boxer and austerity champ Vitali Klitschko to take over as prime minister, instead of the U.S. first choice, Artseniy Yatsenyuk, who indeed took power after Yanukovych was ousted about three weeks later. 

The "Fuck the EU" call went viral, as an embarrassed State Department, never denying the call's authenticity, blamed the Russians for tapping the phone, much as the NSA has tapped the phones of European allies. 

Despite outrage from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, no one fired Nuland, but her potty mouth upstaged the more serious story: the U.S. plot to overthrow Ukraine's elected government — and America's responsibility for a civil war that has killed at least 13,000 people and left Ukraine the poorest country in Europe.  

In the process, Nuland, her husband Robert Kagan — co-founder of The Project for a New American Century — and their neocon cronies succeeded in sending U.S.-Russian relations into a dangerous downward spiral from which they have yet to recover.

John Mearsheimer Ukraine will be wrecked. -short-

 https://youtu.be/lfk-qaqP2Ws

What's going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path, and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. I believe that the policy that I'm advocating, which is neutralizing Ukraine and then building it up economically and getting it out of the competition between Russia on one side and NATO on the other side, is the best thing that could happen to the Ukrainians.

What we're doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We're encouraging the Ukrainians to think that they will ultimately become part of the West because we will ultimately defeat Putin and we will ultimately get our way. Time is on our side, and of course, the Ukrainians are playing along with this, and the Ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise with the Russians and instead want to pursue a hardline policy.

Well, as I said to you before, if they do that, the end result is that their country is going to be wrecked, and what we're doing is, in effect, encouraging that outcome. I think it would make much more sense for us to neutralize Ukraine and work to create a neutral Ukraine. It would be in our interest to bury this crisis as quickly as possible. It certainly would be in Russia's interest to do so, and most importantly, it would be in Ukraine's interest to put an end to the crisis.

parents vs schools

 She really nails it.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512123736408924166.html

The arguments about sex education and book banning and home schooling and CRT and teaching about sexuality and gender identity and curriculum transparency all boil down to this fundamental question: who has the ultimate authority and control over children, parents or the State? 

I would venture to say that the majority of parents believe that they have authority and control over their children's lives. The children are their children and they are responsible for teaching the children and caring for the children and providing for the children. 

Educating children is outsourced to schools due to practicalities. Even those who send their children to religious schools do so because they want to insure their children are brought up with certain beliefs and the parents do not have the time/ability to home school. 

Teachers and school administrators are, in the end, employees of the parents. They exist to provide a service, education, and not to take over the responsibility for the parents. They are there as, at most, an adjunct to how the child is raised, not the primary source of rearing. 

In contrast, the education establishment, by and large, sees itself as being the primary, to say nothing of the highest and best, source of training and imputation of moral values for children. Parents are, at most, ancillary figures to be used to buttress views, if needed. 

It is the State, vis a vis the education department, who has the most important role to deliver in training children how to be proper citizens. It is the State that guides the children, molds their minds, and, in many cases, provides physical care, including meals to the children