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Mark Twain said, “Wars are God’s way of teaching geography to Americans.” We went from strong at the end of WWI to actually punishing companies with additional taxes if they maintained the war material making equipment they wanted to put in storage. Because, if we didn’t have the ability to make war we wouldn’t. And that is the philosophy of practically every liberal I’ve ever met. We should, for example, do away with all of our nuclear weapons and then the rest of the world would too. Afterall, they only have them to counter the fact we have them. (I’ve heard versions of this article several times. I try never to speak to people like that again as stupidity may be contagious.)
The only reason Ukraine is in this war is because America suddenly looked so weak that Russia felt it not only could strike, but that we’d do nothing...Germany’s addiction to Russian energy would force NATO apart and we were all weak and corrupt. (Can’t really argue that last part.)
War...any war...all wars, are a failure of deterrence. The president forgetting where he was and repeating “let’s go Brandon” created such a failure of deterrence that it boggles the mind.