This morning I found an excellent moral statement which I have copied below.

On ABC’s “This Week” this morning, Representative Don Bacon (R-NE), who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said to host Jonathan Karl: “Putin’s the invader, he’s the dictator, he’s murdered all his opponents. But I just don’t see that moral clarity coming from the White House. We saw that Wall Street Journal article yesterday that many people around the president are hoping to make billions of dollars—these are all billionaires in their own right—from…Russia, if they get a favorable agreement with Ukraine. That alarms me tremendously. I want to see America being the leader of the free world, standing up for what’s right, not for who can make a buck…. I don’t want to see a foreign policy based on greed. I want to see it based on doing the right thing.”

The idea that the United States is pursuing a deal favorable to Russia because it might very well enrich a number of billionaires is unsettling.

It is also not surprising considering the open nature of a cascade of corruption under this regime.

I’ll try and keep the story of this flawed and awful “peace” plan updated.

James Alan Pilant