Should Bridge Colby Be Confirmed?

Short answer: Yes.

This is why I appreciate Roca so much.  I am a supporter of Trump but have serious questions regarding the way he handles things from time to time.  He can sometimes act like a pitbull in a meat market.  I saw the blow up at the WH with Zelensky and I didn't like the shit show.  I believe deep down that Trump is for America first and he is a master negotiator.  In the time that has passed looking through different sources I see that while this situation is dire , I believe Trump has and still has a plan all along.   The media likes to chide Trump when he says Zelensky is a dictator.  And while I have my feelings about Ukraine and what has happened, I can see where this comment would be applicable.

I don't trust mainstream media and you all are one source of "facts".  Admittedly, I don't watch the news as much as I should.  It is overwhelming because as you all have proven and shown....there is no black and white in life and social construct, just the stories of the innocent, and villains that make this construct up.  

Thank you all so much for the reporting and just putting the facts out there. 

Thanks Gentlemen for insight to the Ukraine debacle. I’m not sure that the politics of Ukraine are a big concern for me. What concerns me is that we have sent billions of dollars to finance a war that is un-winnable. There is over $50,000,000,000 that is unaccounted for by the Ukrainian “government”. That’s their leadership saying such. That’s our money. Taxpayers in this country should be demanding accountability! There should be a peace plan with realistic goals for ending the war. Should the EU decide to fund the continuation of this war it’s on them.

I find it ironic that our political leaders label Zelensky a dictator on national television while failing to condemn Putin’s aggression towards Ukraine or say anything negative about him. Perhaps this is because Putin holds most of the "cards" in the negotiations, and we want to maintain a positive dialogue with him. However, it seems absurd to produce a video portraying Ukraine (the defender) as undemocratic while overlooking or failing to condemn Putin’s over 20 years in power as the aggressor.

I think that, at this current time, any input from the US on Zelensky's right to lead should be taken with a massive pinch of salt. There's a clear bias from the US government after everything that has happened in the last week. Had Zelensky outright agreed to all of the initial demands from the US there wouldn't be a word said regarding the legitimacy of Zelensky's leadership as to question it would be to also question his right to sign any mineral deal.

Taking both sides' arguments into view, time will tell whether or not Ukraine is still a democracy. They're facing an unprecedented issue for modern time and as such there is no easy way for us to say that they're taking the right course of action or the wrong one. Pushing for an election at this moment would likely only weaken Ukraine as a whole, both from a resources perspective and as a result of the interference we'd likely see. 

Personally, I believe that Ukraine is still a democracy. The government was elected in the first place to represent the people and, from my understanding, they're continuing to govern to the letter of the law. With the questionable legality of the actions that the US government is currently undertaking it feels very "do as I say, but not as I do". I would hope that Ukraine, in time, is able to return to normalcy and that with the end of the war it will welcome back full and unquestioned democracy.