Posted on 03/26/2022 8:36:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
That is an utterly ridiculous argument. We weren't willing to order our own regular military to border, so the idea of some foreign country sending their military into the U.S. to act as border guards is completely absurd. We obviously never asked or even suggested that happen, and if any nation would have offered, it would have been rejected out of hand.
The Ukrainians did, however, send troops to Afghanistan when we asked.
With a few name changes that’s the very same argument Putin is making to Russia.
Maybe we should try a new approach this time.
Not nonsense and you’re just pissed because you can’t counter cogently, but have to go half a world away to put some pitiful point forth.
No difference. We have Posse Comitatus that precludes the military from being used, but that doesn’t (didn’t stop) Ukraine from acting in the same kind of way Xiden is - sanctions, other non-military enforcement (fiscal, etc.).
As for “We obviously never asked or even suggested that happen, and if any nation would have offered, it would have been rejected out of hand,” there’s your trouble. Zelensky has been to everybody and his brother trying to get his no-fly zone: from NATO, from Germany, from EU, from the Canadian Parliament, from the US Congress to ANYBODY. And we do the same thing Ukraine could have done for us here in a non-combatant manner.....
You're so good at mind-reading I find myself wondering if you're a Democrat(?)
Let me put it this way. I will never accept a war with Russia over Ukraine just so Russia-Haters, war-mongers, the MIC and Democrats can pump up their poll numbers before the mid-term elections. Not my dog, not my hunt and damned sure not any of my children or grandchildren at life’s risk for it, period
I also don't like the idea of doing some internal political calculus on which party benefits domestically because the country is supporting Ukraine. I think we should decide what the right thing is to do on its own merits, and let the political chips fall where they may.
Personally, I don't think it will help Democrats in the slightest anyway, except in those rare cases where there may be a Republican opposed to providing any assistance to Ukraine at all. In that case, it's not support for Ukraine that is helping Democrats but actually the opposite.
Fact is, the Ukrainian people as a whole have the domestic/political will to fight the Russians bitterly, and that's why they're fighting. We don't/didn't have the same for our own southern border, so we didn't.
But that's not the fault of the Ukrainians. That's our fault. We were perfectly capable as a nation of sealing that border if we wished. We just lacked the will.
I guess you've forgotten about the run up to this and Biden's team almost literally goading Russia into attacking before his delayed SOTU address....
Seems to me this author has an agenda, and is just throwing crappy arguments against the wall to see if any stick.
The agenda is to be reflexively anti Brandon on everything. While understandable we should be able to multi task issues and not allow Brandon’s weakness to infect us on the right, too.
Agenda? I've heard demrats say the same thing you just said. Well, minus the Brandon label. Just like the rats, you say it like its a bad thing. Your bubble is off plumb.
The mid-term and general elections of 1942 and 1944 took place as scheduled. Somehow, despite war raging in both Europe and the Pacific, Americans managed to get toothier polling places and vote on Election Day. No early voting, no mail-in voting, very little absentee voting. Absent an attack on our soil, I don't see what would constitute an emergency declaration of that scope (if, indeed, that is even possible at the federal level). Of course, the Democrats will try some manipulative move, but I don't thank that one will work.
Why should we spill our children’s blood in a war without end just so arms merchants can put more billions of our money in their pockets?
I say this a former Marine who would fight to the death to protect my country. But I am sick of Politicians who gleefully send our kids off to fight and die, all the while tying their hands behind their back.
Think of all the wars we have fought in thousands of battles. Most were started by Democrats and since WWII, they have made sure we don’t win any wars. I, for one, don’t want any of my grandchildren fighting - and dying - in a war they cannot win.
Send the politicians kids first.
But, we are no sending troops to Ukraine. That has been made abundantly clear.
I would be very cautious about making any predictions about the course of this war. I would suggest both sides take a look at the outlines of the Boer War (actually at least two wars). The British Empire entered for what they thought were good reasons (including the mistreatment of black Africans by the Boers). The German Empire provided substantial aid to the Boers. The end result was the Boers still lost, the tactics and strategies the British employed to win the war hurt their reputation, and the German aid contributed to the souring of relations between Germany and Great Britain.
Fact is you’re a war monger on the side of leftists and neocons.
And you believe Brandon? He’s a politician. His lips are moving. He’s lying.
The Ukraine war has been going on since 2014 when the US/NATO/Soros staged a proxy coup to depose a democratically elected President and install their own puppet so their criminal enterprises could continue unimpeded. They have been shelling the Russian-peaking portions of Ukraine ever since, killing thousands.
Now go eat your pudding and get ready for bed.
You guys can't have it both ways. You can't claim both that Ukraine has already been defeated, and all that's left is a bit of mopping up, while simultaneously claiming that we're going to be stuck in a prolonged war with Russia over Ukraine. Either it's over, or it isn't.
I never claimed any of that stuff you shameless liar.
You have beclowned yourself.
The author who wrote the article said that, you moron. That’s why I quoted her directly and criticized her logic. You pulling my comment out of that context is your problem, not mine.
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