It is very clear from your posting history that you are very pro-Russia, and you have pretty much nothing but contempt for the United States. Is it the country itself you so despise? Or is it just its current government?
Yet, on the other hand you call for the US to develop a dominant defense, including all areas of the Pacific Ocean. But you say nothing about the Atlantic, and even call for the abrogation of NATO. So, are we to abandon the defense of our eastern exposure, which is far more fragile than the western exposure because the Atlantic is nowhere near as vast as the Pacific, and there are vastly more nations to our east that can pose a threat, than there are to the west?
“It is very clear from your posting history that you are very pro-Russia, and you have pretty much nothing but contempt for the United States.”
There you go again, inventing things.
You want it to be so, therefore you assert it as so.
I have no emotional investment in the Ukraine war. If the entire population of either or both countries were to disappear tomorrow I would not care.
I spoke to what I believe are US interests. I believe our interests are negligible in eastern Europe, and existential in the Pacific. Especially within the context of wealth and capability in western Europe.
They don’t need our help. They can do for themselves. There is absolutely no reason for us to do ANYTHING for them if they will not do for themselves.
Being “allies” with Europe is of no benefit to the US and presents us with considerable downside risk.
However, I believe the US has essential strategic interests throughout east Asia and would undertake war to protect them.
For me it’s 100% about US interests, absent the moralizing and cultural affinity.