Yeah I know what you mean. Though the exit from Afghanistan was um...not the way it should have gone. I get that we were there for way too long but...I don’t know. Who am I to say. I never served there.
As far as Russia is concerned, that’s a part of the world I know well and I agree...just because the American left used and uses Russia-Russia-Russia as a deploying tactic for so many things — it doesn’t mean that Putin is some great hero guy. It’s not even about him, so much as the system he’s spent his entire 20+ years in power resurrecting...albeit Russia’s still a shadow of its former Soviet self. The shadow is preventing countries like Ukraine and others (Kazakhstan) from true independence and progress.
Why should any American give a crap about the independence and as you so amusingly put it progress of Kazakhstan or the Ukraine? Our southern border is being deliberately destroyed and masses of turd world barbarians are being prepared to flood in. The Ukraine can F itself.