Commentary
Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to declare California as a “nation-state,” with the world’s fifth-largest economy. But the Ukraine War’s sabotage of the state’s Green Agenda belies that boast. Foreign policy is still conducted by the U.S. president and the State Department, and military policy by the Department of Defense.
The California National Guard has been training Ukrainian troops since 1993, according to the National Guard site; the .mil suffix shows it’s run by the Pentagon.
The site explained, “Ukraine became a charter member of the U.S. National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program along with Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Each country was paired with a state, and Ukraine paired with California….