Justin Brannan said that he doesn't do foreign policy --- and then he did foreign policy --- but he did it very badly

 

At 10:47 PM on February 27, 2022,  Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan posted the following statement on Twitter:

"I don't do foreign policy. I get potholes filled. But here's what I know: New York City is home to the largest Ukrainian population in the United States. Our hearts are with our Ukrainian neighbors, their families back home, and the Russian people protesting this invasion...."

FYI --- when any type of politician makes an expression like that --- it's doing foreign policy --- and right now Justin Brannan's foreign policy is hurting the people of his own district, and it is bleeding Ukraine dry in a war of attrition

FYI --- since Justin Brannan made those remarks --- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has posited a "verified" total of 4,452 civilian deaths during Russia's invasion of Ukraine as of June 14, 2022. Of those, 280 have been children. In addition, 5,531 people were reported to have been injured. [NOTE: the OHCHR has specified that >>> the real numbers could be higher <<<] --- Lately, Ukrainian leaders have acknowledged 100-200 soldiers KIA daily, with total casualties now at about 1000 per day

FYI --- Yesterday at N.A.T.O., the United States' top General Mark Milley seemed willing to let Ukraine fight until its last soldiers were killed on the battlefield --- along side was the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin --- and the SecDef seemed to have no problem with that at all

We have seen things like this before in Eastern Europe. In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded the eastern third of Poland, while Nazi Germany invaded the western two-thirds of Poland. As the Russia-Ukraine conflict has morfed into a bigger war, Russia has consolidated its hold on the eastern third of Ukraine, while N.A.T.O. has largely moved into the western two-thirds of Ukraine.....