American Government dickheadedness — refused to allow Russian diplomats, already in Anchorage, to visit Russia's World War Two graves — only 13 miles away

© 2022 Peter Free

 

12 December 2022

 

 

What do we gain by being dicks?

 

Consider this news:

 

 

Russia’s embassy in Washington, DC says a group of Russian diplomats visiting Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, has been prevented by US authorities from visiting the graves of Soviet soldiers who died during World War II, according to Russian state media.

 

They died while flying planes from the United States to the Soviet Union as part of the World War II Lend-Lease programme. Lend-Lease was an effort, begun before the US joined the war, to supply allies with material deemed vital to the defence of the US.

 

“Unfortunately, the local American authorities, without explanation, did not allow embassy diplomats to visit the Fort Richardson National Cemetery and kneel before the graves of Soviet pilots and sailors who died in Alaska in 1942-1945,” TASS news agency cited Russian diplomat Nadezhda Shumova as saying on Saturday.

 

© 2022 News Agencies, Russian embassy says US denied visit to Soviet graves in Alaska, Al Jazeera (11 December 2022)

 

 

Fort Richardson is a 32 minute (13.2 mile) drive from Anchorage.

 

 

The moral? — It is impossible, for decent people, to respect American behavior like this

 

What happened to our previous graciousness?

 

Dipshit pettiness is not attractive.

 

Why would anyone of right moral and strategic mind seek to ally themselves with such a despicably led nation?

 

Are we trying to lose other cultures' admiration and good will?