That’s right … and it was because those pirates were attacking U.S. shopping assets on the “high seas” (that term had a very specific legal connotation when the U.S. Constitution was written; you should look it up).
Are you telling us the Russian navy is attacking U.S. merchant ships in the Baltic Sea?
More importantly Jefferson and others tried to be anti neocon
It did not work.
It has never worked from the inception of the nation.
Of course the US has not involved itself in ever global conflict.
It has continually and increasingly demonstrated her military strength abroad.
This reality deters and brings peace.
Russia will not be satisfied with Ukraine.