Violence in the Ukraine

Open Email to Congress:

Dear Representatives and Senators,
I again hear the US war drum beats! This time its concerns the Ukraine. The arguments go something like this: The Ukrainian government is killing its people. We have to do something about it. We must be on the side of the Ukrainian people. We must send them help. Should it be money, munitions, or our own soldiers. The Ukrainian government is friendly with Russia, who is our normal enemy. That's another reason we must be involved.
All of the above arguments are hogwash, as easily determined by a little practical analysis. In the first place, the Ukrainian people elected their present government. They wanted it, and they must suffer with it. If Ukrainian people now don't like their present government, that seems to me insufficient reason to start a civil shooting war. Similarly, the US electorate elected Obama as US President. There are bunch of us who don't like it, but we suffer with it. We make no attempt to physically overthrow him. The people wanted it. We suffer with it.
Then we have the grand strategists, who claim that the Ukrainian government plays footsies with the Russians, to the pleasure of the Russians, because the Russians want to reestablish the old former Soviet Union. Strategists say we don't want that, because it disturbs the balance of power. They want the Ukraine to be part of a so-called Western bloc of democracy. But again, look at what the Ukrainian people did. They voted for their present government and knew, or should have known, that it was partial to the Russians. Who are we, the US, to tell the Ukrainian people that they should have voted differently, and if they have apparently made a mistake, we are running to their rescue?
We got into stupid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, presumably on the basis that it would have some effect to minimize terrorism in our homeland. That was a real stretch, which cost us billions of dollars and many lost American soldiers lives. Do we want to do this all over again in the Ukraine? When do we start to learn from our own experiences, not to say the experiences of others?
The fact is that we are broke and deeply in debt. Debtors have no real power, and any of our enemies recognize that. We used to be the primary power of the world, as were the English at one time, but we lost ground heavily as we were unable to control our own economy.