An article in The Nation against impeaching Trump..

An article in the far left magazine The Nation argues that the case for impeaching Trump over whatever has happened between Trump and the government of the Ukraine is a house of cards

Ukrainegate Risks Handing Trump Another Gift.

https://www.thenation.com/article/ukrainegate-biden-trump/

What did Trump actually say about Turkey, the Kurds, and the border?

Hunter Biden. Don’t Ask

According to the article at the link the liberal media discourages discussion of anything regarding Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and Ukraine. Well, except that Trump brought up the topic in the phone call.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/465520-he-who-must-not-be-named-how-hunter-biden-became-a-conversation-stopper?amp&__twitter_impression=true

The fact is that no matter the right or wrong of Trump bringing up the Bidens, Hunter Biden’s consulting work for an oil company there does seem corrupt, and a legitimate subject for discussion.

US Military Leadership is Failing

Up to the end of World War 2 an officer in the US military not competent in combat was likely to be removed from command by a superior officer. Usually they would be sent back to the US and given a non combat command, where their talents might be useful.

Since the Vietnam War, high ranking officers found to be incompetent in combat are not relieved. They are allowed to serve out their tour of duty in the field despite the damage they are doing to US interests and their own soldiers.

The following two articles describe this problem and offer explanations why this change has occurred

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general-failure/309148/

http://nation.time.com/2012/10/29/generally-mediocre/

Trump’s Decision to Stop Supporting the Kurds in Syria.

I think it is the right decision.  Unless you either

1 Have a close relative in the military
2 Have yourself served in the military
3 Are willing at least do a desk job at a military base to free up a soldier to deploy overseas, or
4 Support restarting the draft,

I do not think you have the right to question that decision.

A little research on the internet shows that as long ago as 2016 , then VP Joe Biden - and President Obama - did not want a self governing Kurdish state in northern Syria. Which is why he had come forward to condemn Trump’s decision.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/biden-visits-turkey-on-mission-to-repair-strained-relations/2016/08/24/bc684904-6a04-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html

Some more research shows that, past ant-war statements  by most other leading Democrats contenders for the 2020 nomination, have also made difficult for them to condemn Trump’s decision.

For example

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/02/politics/elizabeth-warren-troops-syria/index.html

and

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-syria-afghanistan-trump_n_5c2e4acee4b05c88b7072fea

and

https://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Bernie_Sanders_War_+_Peace.htm

Well, I did find one Democrat candidate who has been willing to condemn the withdrawal , Senator Amy Klobuchar

http://www.kmaland.com/news/klobuchar-blasts-trump-on-syrian-troop-pullout/article_bd12f992-e9e7-11e9-bd76-cb58132e89cd.html

For a non hysterical articls on the decision to pull leave, I recommend the following

 , https://www.ft.com/content/be8e5ff4-e939-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/donald-trumps-syria-withdrawal-are-we-asking-right-questions-86906

Because I like it, there is this partisan article supporting Trump by an argument that reaches back to the Vietnam War.

https://www.nysun.com/foreign/liberals-tears-for-the-kurds-ring-hollow-after/90861/

I do not agree with everything in the article  For example,  we did not win the war only to be sold out by politicians. We jus lost the damn war .  Still,

Bill is back

Trump and the Ukraine

President Trump was fully justified to ask the current government of Ukraine to help his aids to find evidence of the deep state conspiracy against his presidency.

In 2016, under a previous government, the Ukraine provided the DNC with information to damage Trump’s presidential campaign.

Whatever Russia’s goals were in 2016, in that year Ukraine was interfering in the US election to hurt Trump and help Clinton

https://www.thenation.com/article/ukraine-elections-2016/

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/publication-of-manafort-payments-violated-law-interfered-in-us-election-kyiv-court-rules.html

https://www.ft.com/content/c98078d0-6ae7-11e6-a0b1-d87a9fea034f

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/441892-ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016

Heck, when even the far left The Nation admits there is smoke...

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Elizabeth Warren by Default ?

Bernie Sanders has health problems.

Joe Biden is likely to suffer much collateral damage from the impeachment of Trump.

That leaves who for the Democrats? Elizabeth Warren?