Our M.O. is to park a carrier off the coast and bomb missile and artillery sites. Low risk. How many missile sites get hit before Russia tries to sink a carrier? No one we’ve faced in the last, 60 years could make a credible threat against a carrier. Sink one of those and more guys “get wet” (as in sink or swim) than we lost in the 13 years following 9/11. Not low risk. How many Americans can find Ukraine on a map? What was the last think you bought that was Made in Ukraine (mine was beer I didn’t like). In Korea and Vietnam we sent guys to die to free our friends. Most other times it has taken some action against the US to get the people behind and a war. I don’t know if we as a county (whoever is President) to put the requisite skin in this game. Not saying that,it was Regan or Kennedy, or Nixon or Johnson, or Eisenhower or Truman, that it would have come this far.
“What was the last think you bought that was Made in Ukraine (mine was beer I didn’t like).”
You’d think it’d be ammo...?
Take a look here (dated info., but still interesting):
http://www.usubc.org/site/economic-data-analysis/ukraine-s-top-export-and-imports
However, whether or not a country is important to the US should not necessarily depend on what we import from them. More imports may (may) simply mean fewer jobs for Americans. In this case, long term (10 - 50 years) geopolitics are far more important.